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Legendary psychedelic rock band Mercury Rev will release their brand new studio album Born Horses tomorrow, September 6 via Bella Union. The collection has already earned acclaim spanning Pitchfork, Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Under The Radar, Uproxx, NME, FLOOD Magazine and Clash. New single and title track “Born Horses” – released today – acts as the album’s majestic thesis statement. Its lyrics resonate throughout the entire record, encompassing the idea of flight (“I dreamed we were born horses waiting for wings”) and the phrase “You and I” that appears at different junctures on the album. This is not the concept of two separate people, but two parts of one self. Grasshopper shares, “Born Horses is an illuminated poetic slice of hazy existential visions, wrapped in a velvet blanket of cosmic yearning…”
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Recently hailed by Pitchfork with a 9.3 for their 1991 classic Yerself Is Steam, Mercury Rev has been revered for their experimental artistry and challenging the status quo throughout their career. The new collection is a glistening psych-jazz-folk-baroque-ambient quest highlighting the band’s sophisticated instrumentation, met with heroic indie rock chops and offering a fresh new poetic perspective.
Born Horses is vocally inspired by the spirits of art minimalist Tony Conrad (LaMonte Young’s Dream Syndicate w/ John Cale and a close friend to The Velvet Underground) and beat poet Robert Creeley (one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century and an associate of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Black Mountain poets), acolytes of progressive thought and action who both taught at the University at Buffalo, the city where the band was formed.
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