Mercury Rev have announced their first album of original music in nine years. The continuation of 2015 The Light to Youwith Title Born Horses, will be released on September 6 via Bella Union. Mercury Rev also shared the lead single, “Patterns“, and its music video. In the clip, close-ups of film reels counting down, grainy footage and text flash across the screen. Check it out, as well as the tracklist for Born Horsesbelow.
Explaining the story behind the song, Mercury Rev said: “When we look at the stars in the night sky, the twinkling lights seem random. If we could zoom out and see all the galaxies revolving around each other, we would see the order in it. There are only patterns on top of patterns….”
In 2019, Mercury Rev released the covers album Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited. Read the Sunday Review of Mercury Rev's 1991 debut album Yerself Is Steam.
Born Horses:
01 Mood swings
02 Ancient love
03 Your Hammer, My Heart
04 Patterns
05 A Bird of No Address
06 Born Horses
07 Everything I Thought I Had Lost
08 There was always a bird in me
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