Mercury Rev have announced details of their first new album in nine years, and shared its first single. The trippy, twinkling which features spoken word vocals from frontman Jonathan Donahue referencing artist Jackson Pollock, is the first taste of the eight-song , the quartet's follow-up to 2015's set for release on September 6 via Bella Union. “When we gaze up at the stars in the sky at night, the flickering lights seem random,” the band say in a statement about the single.
“If we could zoom out and see all of the galaxies revolving around each other, we would see the order in it. There are only Patterns on top of Patterns..
.” Listen to the song below. “When Jonathan and I first met,” says guitarist/clarinetist/sound generator operator Grasshopper [aka Sean Mackowiak, “one thing we bonded over was Blade Runner, both Ridley Scott’s film and Vangelis’ soundtrack: that feel of the past and the future, the haunting noir mood and the romance of the future.
.. ‘Born Horses’ taps into some of that.
” “Looking back to childhood, to Broadway tunes, to lonesome blues, Chet Baker, Miles Davis’ , records that our parents listened to, but we put a twist into the future. From the beginning, Mercury Rev were on a cusp, between analogue and digital, hi-fi and lo-fi at the same time. It was like Brecht or Weill, the words suggesting visuals, and the visuals suggesting moods.
We also thought a lot about the desert on this record, and the urban desert.” The album t.
