Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs 1998
Studio Recordings @160
Out of Print
For 1998, Mercury Rev did something completely different: they shunned the psychedelic rock of their previous ways and went for baroque. Literally. On Deserter's Songs, bowed saw plays as prominent a role as guitar, and most of the songs are ballads, not anthems. There's a tender, folksy quality here that was missing in the group's previous (albeit also great) recordings. Mercury Rev have always been difficult to classify; yet on this album they make the pigeonholing even more difficult.
~Jason Verlinde
Track List:
1. Holes
2. Tonite It Shows
3. Endlessly
4. I Collect Coins
5. Opus 40
6. Hudson Line
7. Happy End (The Drunk Room)
8. Goddess on a Hiway
9. Funny Bird
10. Pick up If You're There
11. Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp
Deserter's Songs
