DESERTER'S SONGS DELUXE RE-RELEASES!
MERCURY REV return in May with a deluxe double CD reissue of their classic 1998 album, "DESERTER'S SONGS". The release comes complete with a 13-track bonus disc of unreleased demos and out-takes… And to coincide with and celebrate the release, Mercury Rev will be performing the album in full across much of Ireland, UK, Europe, Croatia and Turkey! DESERTER'S SONGS will be re-released on V2/CO-OP in most of the world and on Fontana in North America.
"They're back, they're back. Three years off and then they stroke a furrowed brow like an album of the year should. Too gorgeous"
- Melody Maker July 1998
- Melody Maker July 1998
"Deserter's Songs is at once a lullaby, a trip, and a triumph."
-Pitchfork (Top 100 Albums of the 1990's)
-Pitchfork (Top 100 Albums of the 1990's)
***** - Uncut Magazine Sept 1998
"A modern classic." – NME
"Deserter's Songs, feels like a watershed, the point where their heady mix of orchestral pop, roots rock, psychedelia, prog, choral, and chamber music finally crystallizes into something special and damn near ineffable… let's just call Deserter's Songs the art-rock album of the year." – Entertainment Weekly
"Deserter's Songs" was released to huge worldwide acclaim and went on to be named album of the year in 1998 by NME, MOJO and many other publications. The record merged jazz, folk, Disney soundtrack fantasia, 60s rock (The Band's legendary Levon Helm and Garth Hudson guested on the album) with sweeping orchestration and heralded Mercury Rev's rebirth as purveyors of a cosmic brand of the popular American songbook. "Deserter's Songs" was also a bona-fide hit, generating three Top 40 singles, propelling the legendary iconoclasts into living rooms worldwide, and helped pioneer the launch of a new genre of alternative music!
Also as an added bonus, look for the EXTRA 3rd disc "AN EVENING AT BARROWLAND BALLROOM," a live Recording from Glasgow Scotland which will be shrinkwrapped to the Limited Deserter's Songs Deluxe Edition absolutely FREE (but only for a brief time)! It's the very first LIVE REV RECORD officially released by the band and features over 70 minutes from a classic 2005 Scottish performance. This will go fast and won't be available again so get your pre-orders in!
And let's not forget VINYL!!!! Both Deserter's Songs and the Deserted Songs Album of unreleased songs and outtakes will be released on 180 gram virgin vinyl with a deluxe gatefold sleeve on the audiophile world reknown US label 'LIGHT IN THE ATTIC' as the flagship release on their newest division 'MODERN CLASSICS'. A fantastic package!!!
Put the needle on the record and the drum beat goes like this--->
Put the needle on the record and the drum beat goes like this--->
MERCURY REV "DESERTER'S SONGS" THE INSTRUMENTAL EDITION
DESERTER'S SONGS has been remixed and remastered in a special Instrumental Edition, accentuating the orchestral cosmic-fantasia of rock in a full 3D cinematic scope!
The 'Deserter's Songs Instrumental Edition' will initially be offered on CD and will be available on tour, in fine record shops and online. This will mark the flagship release from Mercury Rev's own label EXCELSIOR MELODIES which is preparing to release a number of curiosities, rare exclusives, past catalog treasures and a number of new LP's by up and coming, as yet uncorrupted, uncompromising artists from this particular Universe and specifically this Solar System! So if you've got a great 4-track cassette, made in your bedroom, and are under the mistaken impression no one would ever 'get it'... send it along---> after all, that's how we started!