American Indie rock band Mercury Rev is celebrating their fourth studio album’s 20th anniversary with tour dates in the United States. The tour begins on April 12th in Gijon, Spain and ends on October 26th in Brooklyn, NY. The tour is promised to be an extraordinary glimpse into what nearly destroyed a band and the strange events leading up to a most unexpected return.
The band’s album Deserter’s Songs was released on September 29th, 1998. The album came out in limited edition copies packaged in brown cardboard envelope-like packaging. The packaging had a stamp on the cover with the release date and two art postcards. The band is playing acoustic and intimate shows with a focus on on towns in Ireland and Scotland in which they’ve rarely performed before this tour. The songs will be performed in the fragile “whisper and strum” that they were originally written. The LP merged jazz, folk and 60s rock with Disney soundtrack fantasia and heralded Mercury Rev’s rebirth as purveyors of a cosmic brand of the popular American songbook. The album received praise from Rolling Stone’s Album Guide, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, NME and MOJO along with others.
According to mxdwn the band released their last studio album, The Light In You, on September 18th, 2015. When the new album was announced the first song “Queen of Swans” and the album’s art work.
Deserter’s Songs Track list
1. Holes
2. Tonite it Shows
3. Endlessly
4. I Collect Coins
5. Opus 40
6. Hudson Line
7. The Happy End (the Drunk Room)
8. Goddess on a Hiway
9. The Funny Bird
10. Pickup If You’re There
11. Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp
Tour Dates
4/12 – Gijon Sound Festival – Gijon, Spain
4/14 – C-Mine Little Waves Festival – Genk, Belgium
4/16 – Wesley Centenary Church – Bangor, UK (Sold Out)
4/17 – Wesley Centenary Church – Bangor, UK (Sold Out)
4/18 – Dolans Warehouse – Limerick, Ireland (Sold Out)
4/19 – Theatre Royal Waterford – Waterford, Ireland
4/20 – Live at St. Lukes – Cork, Ireland (Sold Out)
4/21 – Roisin Dubh – Galway, Ireland (Sold Out)
4/22 – Whelans – Dublin, Ireland (Sold Out)
4/24 – The Tolbooth – Stirling, UK (Sold Out)
4/25 – The Caves – Edinburgh, UK (Sold Out)
4/26 – Tunnels – Aberdeen, UK
4/27 – CCA – Glasgow, UK (Sold Out)
4/29 – Hotel Cecil – Copenhagen, Denmark (Sold Out)
4/30 – Hotel Cecil – Copenhagen, Denmark (Sold Out)
5/1 – Fasching – Stockholm, Sweden
5/2 – John Dee – Oslo, Norway (Sold Out)
10/12-14 – Desert Daze Festival – Lake Perris, CA
10/16 – The Chapel – San Francisco, CA
10/18 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR
10/19 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA
10/26 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
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