Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (Smoke Marble vinyl)

Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (Smoke Marble vinyl)LP Smoke Marble vinyl Klimt Records (2025) FR Fully cementing Mercury Revs rebirth as purveyors of a cosmic brand of the popular American songbook, Deserters Songs is an album of grandiose proportions. Merging jazz, folk, sweeping orchestration, and a dose of 60s rock, the album was intended as the bands swan song and therefore made with utter abandon. However, it became the bands most acclaimed platter and remains one of the essential records of the

” while Uncut also became early champions saying the album was “A genuine treasure

Having forced their way through their second album's identity crisis

Speaking on the concept of the album title

Hellraiser

Good Lies remoulds and interweaves captivating vocal cuts into a series of multi-genre electronic sounds that flits effortlessly between euphoria and melancholy

It's going to tell you the fable at the center of the story

lead singer and multi-instrumentalist

because of the internet we're all here

Jepsen decided to go for a deceptively simple title

self-produced and recorded (with contributions from Brian McNeill

’” he says

It’s fitting that this is the message Swim Deep have arrived at