American rock group formed in Buffalo, New York, noted for a shift from noisy, psychedelic beginnings to ornate, orchestral dream-pop. Breakthrough and widely acclaimed album: Deserter's Songs.

Producer Dave Fridmann has frequently collaborated with the band. Founding/early member David Baker left the group before the era leading to Deserter's Songs.

DeBaser hosts a dozen-plus reviews covering Mercury Rev's shifts from noisy early psychedelia to orchestral dream-pop and later electronic experiments. Deserter's Songs is widely admired here; later records divide opinion. Reviews highlight orchestration, Jonathan Donahue's voice, and producer Dave Fridmann's role.

For:Listeners of psychedelic rock, dream pop, orchestral/experimental indie

 In my opinion, the "Forever Changes" of the past decade.

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 All it takes is "The Dark Is Rising", with its storms, its tides, its calms, its astral conjunctions, its peaceful solitudes.

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 abstraction as the best way to talk about reality, which expresses itself completely and opens the doors of our sensitivity when wisely suspended in the indefinable of which we are truly made.

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