“That’s sure a lot of tags, Pa…“ As many of you readers know, Austin Girl Music Guide’s tagline is Reviews for Regular People (new readers check out my “About This Blog” page to learn more!). I love music and the main goal of this blog is making music accessible. I want to share the music [Continue]
Snowflake Midnight - 2008 In my second foray into Mercury Rev‘s collection, I listened to their latest release, Snowflake Midnight. On first impressions, it’s a stark contrast from Deserter’s Songs by virtue of the fact that it is much more firmly entrenched in the experimental side of psychedelic dream pop. The first track, [Continue]
Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs, 1998 The sheer surprise of discovering this amazing album makes it the one I want to hear again the soonest, if only by the smallest of margins against P, B & J’s Living Thing. [Continue]
Fur and Gold – 2006 Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes has a voice that lies somewhere between Beth Gibbons and Bjork, and Fur and Gold‘s sound is somewhere between a Portishead and a Bjork album. Fur and Gold is a mystical fantasy land, the soundscape to accompany any good princess worth her salt on [Continue]
Deserter’s Songs – 1998 I’m embarrassed to admit that I only recently heard of Mercury Rev. Not too long ago Will Champion, the drummer for Coldplay, wrote about the influence that MR had on Coldplay as a new band, and that coupled with Mercury Rev’s wildly fascinating bio intrigued me. Sure enough, I was greatly [Continue]
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