"Spacey!" she exclaimed.
I looked at my friend, a tad confused. You saw Kevin?
"That's the word I was looking for!" she continued. "I'm trying to think of a way to describe their music. So it's spacey!"
Ahhh. Fair enough. But looking for and interstellar parallel to Mercury Rev's music surely requires one to head beyond the Milky Way, and into the nether regions of Eagle Nubula NGC 6611 or thereabouts. It's got that kind of dimension, and their Thursday night performance at the Esplanade Theatre was pretty much that kind of fantastic voyage. The mix was a little loud, and backing visuals that accompanied each song sometimes bordered on uppity pretension. But hey, they played six songs from Deserter's Songs and one of my All Is Dream favs 'The Dark Is Rising' (though they left out 'Spiders and Flies'), so who's to complain? Plus, when else can you get a chance to recreate a journey through the cosmos without having to leave those plush, cushy chairs?
Rating: 7.2
Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising (from All Is Dream)
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