Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs - COMPACT DISCS

Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Deserter's Songs Artist: Mercury Rev Label: Pias Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5033197027722 Genre: Alternative Rock Release Date: 2006 07 04 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: PORTUGAL IMPORT A touching, majestic gem of a record, DESERTER'S SONGS raises the bar not just for Mercury Rev themselves, but orchestrated pop in general. There's a timelessness to both the compositions and the arrangements here. Grand sonic visions are realized

Title: Deserter's Songs
Artist: Mercury Rev
Label: Pias
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5033197027722
Genre: Alternative Rock
Release Date: 2006-07-04
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: PORTUGAL - IMPORT

A touching, majestic gem of a record, DESERTER'S SONGS raises the bar not just for Mercury Rev themselves, but orchestrated pop in general. There's a timelessness to both the compositions and the arrangements here. Grand sonic visions are realized with horns, keyboards, strings, even a bowed saw! No matter how big the sound gets, though, it's all carefully controlled, and the cinematic scope enhances the songs, rather than obscuring them. Simple-but never blunt-lyrics benefit from an infectious melodicism that speaks to the pop songcraft skills Mercury Rev has mastered. The sweeping scale of DESERTER'S SONGS never denies the small, intimate pleasures that pop up from song to song, as the band combines psychedelia, '60s pop, Flaming Lips-ish indie rock and a homey folk-rock sound (the Band's Garth Hudson and Levon Helm even appear here) for a masterpiece of epic proportions. V2.

Tracks:
1.1 Holes
1.2 Tonite It Shows
1.3 Endlessly
1.4 I Collect Coins
1.5 Opus 40
1.6 Hudson Line
1.7 The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
1.8 Goddess on a Hiway
1.9 The Funny Bird
1.10 Pick Up If You're There
1.11 Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp