Mercury Rev

Mercury Rev
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Genre: Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Dream Pop, Noise Pop
Group Members: Jimmy Chambers, Jonathan Donahue, Dave Fridmann, Grasshopper, Suzanne Thorpe, David Baker, Jason Russo, Adam Snyder, Justin Russo, Jimy ...View All
Biography: Not so much a band as a long, strange trip, the chaotic avant pop pranksters Mercury Rev formed in Buffalo, NY, in the late '80s. Originally comprised of vocalist David Baker, vocalist/silver pickup guitarist Jonathan Donahue, guitar shaper/single-exhaust clarinetist Grasshopper (born Sean Mackowiak), ...Read full biography
Boces
Released: 1993
Label: Beggars Banquet UK
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With Boces, Mercury Rev took everything that made Yerself Is Steam such an impressive debut and made their second album even more so. Over the course of ten minutes, opening epic "Meth of a Rockette's ...Read full review
Yerself Is Steam
Released: 1991
Label: Rough Trade
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Music dictated not by logic but by intuition, Yerself Is Steam is an album at war with itself, split by its desire to achieve both melodic pop bliss and white-noise transcendence within the same space; ...Read full review
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