Daily Jam - Everlasting Arm

Here's a 30-year old Mercury Rev song.  Listen to "Everlasting Arm" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Opus 40

Here's a track from one of my favorite albums ever, Mercury Rev's 1998 masterpiece "Deserter's Songs."  Listen to "Opus 40" below, our Daily Jam.

Mercury Rev

The long running New York band Mercury Rev have a new album coming our way in September with "Born Horses."  Our first taste is the new age and dreampop-tinged spoken word piece "Patterns."  Check it out below and pre-order the record here from Bella Union.

Pneumatic Tubes

Jesse Chandler, the keyboardist and woodwinds player for Denton, Texas band Midlake and alt-rock mainstays Mercury Rev, also releases solo music as Pneumatic Tubes.  The artist dropped an album of dreamy indie rock last year featuring Slowdive's Rachel Goswell called "Sunfrost" that i totally dropped the ball on.  It's a lush and gorgeous piece of work, but feels like a far cry from the upcoming "A Letter from TreeTops" LP, set to release letter this month via Ghost Box.  The new album is a kaleidoscopic mix of psychedelia, kosmische, and library music that feels like like looking through old, faded Polaroids.  Both albums are worth your time.  Download "Sunfrost" here from the artist, and pre-order "A Letter from TreeTops" here.  In the meantime, go here to listen to a montage of tracks from the new record.

Daily Jam - Across Yer Ocean

Sometimes music and my boys are the only thing that get me through a day.  I need to learn how to meditate or something.  I don't know.  Anyway, here's Mercury Rev with the dreamy "Across Yer Ocean," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Chains

Mercury Rev's excellent album "All Is Dream" has the unfortunate distinction of being released in the US on September 11th, 2001.  Because of that, i think it was unfairly forgotten in all the turmoil that followed, not that it would have been this huge breakout record or anything.  It was too weird for that.  But i think it would have and should have garnered the group more attention than it ultimately did.  Anyway, here's "Chains," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Tonite It Shows

I heard Mercury Rev's masterful "Deserter's Songs" for the first time when i was a deejay at KVRX, the college radio station for UT Austin.  The two semesters i spent spinning music at the ungodly hour of 5AM opened me up to so many artists that shaped and molded my tastes for the years and decades to come, and that Mercury Rev record is probably my most favorite.  It's one of those albums whose depressive beauty and desperation can life me out of my own dour state 20+ years on.  I love it.  So here's "Tonite It Shows," our Daily Jam.

Mercury Rev and Margo Price

It's been a little bit since we last got new music from the oft uncategorizable Mercury Rev, but it appears we have a new record on the horizon heading our way in February.  And it's a tribute/cover album of singer/songwriter country artist Bobbie Gentry's 1968 record "The Delta Sweete."  The band's take on the record, "Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited" features a whole slew of guest vocalists as well, including Hope Sandoval, Rachel Goswell, Marissa Nadler, Vashti Bunyan, and more.  You can pre-order it here via Bella Union, but in the meantime, listen to "Sermon" below, featuring Margo Price on vocals.  The band's cosmic psych-leaning, hypnotizing music paired with Price's old school country vocals makes for a dusty, spacey, and fascinating listen.