Mercury Rev

Although the album's opening orchestral arrangement begs for a movie trailer's voiceover to say, "In a world! Where one man! Made a difference! In the lives of many...", the rest of Dream isn't quite so dramatic. They've taken Deserter's Songs (1998) and injected it with progressive rock fat cells and film soundtrack Botox for aural and aesthetic improvement.

Love them, or run screaming from the room when their distinctively coy, eerie music
washes from the speakers, Mercury Rev are a genuine acquired taste. These Buffalo, New
York, experimentalists' fifth album is their most precise work yet - it's both musically
decorous and lyrically savage, a collection of half-remembered nightmares and fugitive
observations linked by grandiose arrangements. Mercury Rev are often tagged a... More >