Mercury Rev "Born Horses" 2025-08-29 with a spaciousness that's more

with a spaciousness that's more like a beach mansion than a mere house

Formed in the small French town of Bagnols-sur-Cèze at the dawn of the century

While the sheer exuberance and giddy nature of the music tends to make them an afterthought

Both albums came out on Time Bomb Recordings

The band had reached a high point in notoriety when frontman Jeremy Bolm received news that his mother had been diagnosed with Stage Four cancer

Mercury Rev "Born Horses" 2025-08-29 with a spaciousness that's moreIn upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that