Born Horses
by Mercury Rev
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 September 2024
- Label: Bella Union
- Country: United States
- Length: 40:02
- Community rating: 2.79/5 from 3 ratings
Artists on this release: Jonathan Donahue, Jeff Lipstein, other, Grasshopper, Chris Heitzman, pedalboard, Simon Raymonde
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The legendary dream-pop orchestrators shift their focus entirely toward lush, heavily poetic spoken word performances layered over cinematic neo-psychedelia. The record operates as a series of profoundly introspective, jazz-inflected monologues backed by soaring, distinctly nocturnal chamber pop instrumentation. It is a beautifully sombre, relentlessly atmospheric meditation from the upstate New York veterans.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, monologue
Tracklist
- Mood Swings (7:14)
- Ancient Love (5:53)
- Your Hammer, My Heart (4:43)
- Patterns (3:53)
- A Bird Of No Address (4:12)
- Born Horses (3:39)
- Everything I Thought I Had Lost (6:12)
- There's Always Been A Bird In Me (4:13)
Credits
- Jeff Lipstein - drums, other [crescendos]
- Chris Heitzman - electric bass, 12-string acoustic guitar
- Will Bryant - electric organ [the hammond b3 organ], accordion
- Martin Keith - electric upright bass [the upright bass]
- Grasshopper - guitar, electronics [tettix wavetronix], arranged by [horn arrangements], omnichord, percussion, bells, whistle
- Jesse Chandler - piano [plate reverb piano], arranged by [mellotron arrangements], vibraphone, pedalboard [taurus bass pedals], tenor saxophone, flute
- Thomas Green - saxophone [the brass sax]
- Megan Gould - violin