RELEASED ON 6.9.2024 ON BELLA UNION VIA PROPER
CATALOGUE NUMBER BELLA1582CD
In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums - and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow. Spiritually, literally, psycho-geographically: where else does Mercury Rev's ninth album Born Horses spring from? This cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazz-folk-baroque- A place that feeds off the levitating mood of their last album, 2019's expansive tribute Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited, and the instrumental psych explorations under the names of Harmony Rockets and Mercury Rev's Clear Light Ensemble, and the spiritual guidance of avant-garde artist Tony Conrad and Beat poet Robert Creeley, to whom Born Horses is dedicated. The record began with skeletal chords and a surge of self-reflection, from where we are vulnerable alive to the notions and motions of time and reality. Hear new song ‘Patterns’ here - https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
LP Tracks: Mood Swings / Ancient Love / Your Hammer, My Heart / Patterns / A Bird Of No Address / Born Horses / Everything I Thought / There's Always Been A Bird In Me CD Tracks: Mood Swings / Ancient Love / Your Hammer, My Heart / Patterns / A Bird Of No Address / Born Horses / Everything I Thought / There's Always Been A Bird In Me |