- 2024-08-21
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MUSIC
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Mercury Rev Releases New Song “A Bird Of No Address”
American rock band Mercury Rev will release their upcoming album “Born Horses” on September 6, 2024 via Bella Union.
This marks their first album in nine years since the 2015 album “The Light in You”, except the 2019 album “Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited”, which is re-imagining of the 1968 album “The Delta Sweete Revisited”.
From the album, the band released the third single called “A Bird Of No Address” along with a music video on August 8, 2024.
The track was written by Jesse Chandler, Jonathan Daniel Donahue, Marion Genser, and Sean Thomas Mackowiak. Produced by Jonathan Daniel Donahue, Sean Thomas Mackowiak, and Marion Genser.
The band lead singer Jonathan Donahue said of the song, “As Rebecca Solnit (poet laureate of hope) writes, 'The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don't know yet whether they will have any effect.' For all the birds of no address: Fly on!”- The new album comprises a 8-track, which was recorded by the band core members Jonathan Donahue and Sean 'Grasshopper' Mackowiak, along with pianist Jesse Chandler and keyboardist Marion Genser.
The album title is named after the majestically rippling sixth track “Born Horses”.
The band member Sean 'Grasshopper' Mackowiak said of the album, “When Jonathan and I first met, one thing we bonded over was Blade Runner, both Ridley Scott's film and Vangelis' soundtrack: that feel of the past and the future, the haunting noir mood and the romance of the future…Born Horses taps into some of that. Looking back to childhood, to Broadway tunes, to lonesome blues, Chet Baker, Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain, records that our parents listened to, but we put a twist into the future. From the beginning, Mercury Rev were on a cusp, between analogue and digital, hi-fi and lo-fi at the same time. It was like Brecht or Weill, the words suggesting visuals, and the visuals suggesting moods. We also thought a lot about the desert on this record, and the urban desert.” -
Jonathan Donahue added, “Since our beginning in the mid 80's with David Baker through to the recording of Born Horses with new permanent members, Woodstock native (pianist) Jesse Chandler and Austrian born (keyboardist) Marion Genser, we've celebrated this unspoken trust in the 'statue already inside the marble'. We didn't make Born Horses by throwing clay on top of clay; we allowed time to reveal what was always there.”
Background photo by Mic Stand - source : Apple Music
