Mercury Rev - Holes: Sweet Like a Falling Comet
An atmosphere of air and strings tender-tremble above a faltering foundation. Symphonic, like an old friend, drunk and catching up, searching for the words to tell you something you already know. Like a microcosm of Mercury Rev’s revelatory album Deserters Songs, tension builds up from deep inside Holes in slow, slow swells; flutes, tambourines, organs, pianos, theramins, the plaintive moan of a bass; tender voiced cymbals are washing over you.
“Time, all the long red lines, that take control,
of all the smoke-like streams that flow into your dreams…
How does that old song go?”
As you stumble deeper into Holes, and deeper still into Deserters Songs, maybe you think “How did I wade into this enveloping, ebbing sea of song?” Then you relax, and let the horns carry you away into the depths of sound and light.
Sounds like the love child of: The Flaming Lips and The Black Heart Procession
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- This entry was posted on September 5, 2007 at 6:46 pm by Evan.
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