“Early Mercury Rev songs often sounded like dreams, albeit ones that were periodically quite disturbing, but with the exit of original vocalist David Baker in the early 1990s, the upstate New York band began to rein in some of their more outre tendencies. Their first album of original material in nine years – with new members Jesse Chandler and Marion Genser now flanking the core duo of Grasshopper”
“On their first album of original material in nine years, the veteran New York rockers reinvent themselves once again. That’s where the problems begin.”
