Frittering by Mercury Rev
“One of the most wrongly overlooked bands of all time”
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One of the most wrongly overlooked bands of all time
To me, this was the album of the 90's.
Frittering is a song I hear every day - it's part of my sleep-cycle playlist. Mercury Rev's debut album is lovely and odd but Frittering is the song that has a hold on my soul. I recall a music journalist of the time (1991) saying that it sounds like "A Pink Floyd song if Syd Barrett had still been in the band in 1973" and I can think of no better way to describe it. Soaring, soothing guitar gives the song an epic quality and the cryptic vocals (both in meaning and presentation) draw up a troubled story of loss and a weird kind of acceptance. It seems complicated and simple at once; I love it.
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A sprawling psychedelic masterpiece, Play LOUD.
One of those songs that could go on forever
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I'd forgotten how good the first album was!
