{"product_id":"mercury-rev-born-horses-vinyl-lp","title":"MERCURY REV - BORN HORSES - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003eIn upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richlyswelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eslipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums - and a voice\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSpiritually, literally, psycho-geographically: where else does Mercury Rev's ninth album Born Horses\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003espring from? This cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazz-folk-baroque-ambient quest that searches\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eit's soul but can never truly know the answer? A sound and vision linked to their exalted past whilst quite\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eunlike anything they have created before?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe answer is somewhere between the homes of founder members Jonathan Donahue (the hamlet of Mt\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTremper) and Grasshopper (the town of Kingston), in their veins and brains of their now-legendary\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etapping of musical cosmology, and the vital presence of new permanent member Marion Genser (keys),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eplus long-term ally Jesse Chandler (keys) and guests Jeff Lipstein (drums), Martin Keith (double bass)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Jim Burgess (trumpet). A place that feeds off the levitating mood of their last album, 2019's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexpansive tribute Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited, and the instrumental psych explorations\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eunder the names of Harmony Rockets and Mercury Rev's Clear Light Ensemble, and the spiritual\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eguidance of avant-garde artist Tony Conrad and Beat poet Robert Creeley, to whom Born Horses is\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ededicated.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBorn Horses opens with 'Mood Swings'. A trumpet, evoking mariachi and the windswept terrain of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edesert prairie, opens up to a dynamic panorama of sound, wandering through and enveloping Jonathan's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eintimate recitation, conflating memories and confessions of feelings trapped and unwrapped: \"My mood\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eswings come and go as they like \/ rebellious fickle teenagers, unable to decide.\" It establishes Born\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHorses' tone of vulnerability and awe, and a little frisson of fear, testifying to the frailty of human\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexperience, buffeted by the currents all around us. The flightiness of feelings is further explored by the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emetaphor of a bird, most clearly in 'Bird Of No Address' and the album's pulsating finale 'There Has\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAlways Been A Bird In Me'.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe album title, named after the majestically rippling sixth track 'Born Horses', was chosen because it's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewords resonate through the entire record, encompassing the idea of flight (\"I dreamed we were born\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehorses waiting for wings\") and the phrase \"You and I\" that appears at different junctures on the album.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThis is not the concept of two separate people, but two parts of one self.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe concept of Born Horses began pre-pandemic, and then once Mercury Rev were allowed to tour and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecord again, Marion Genser moved over from her native Austria to join Jonathan in the Catskills, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMercury Rev in full flight. A classically-trained painter as well as a musician, Marion has become an\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einvaluable addition to the Rev chemical compound.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMore inspiration was provided by the spirits of Tony Conrad and Robert Creeley, acolytes of progressive\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethought and action who both taught at the University at Buffalo when Jonathan and Grasshopper were\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estudents. Amongst other credentials, Conrad was an associate of John Cale and The Velvet\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUnderground, Creeley an associate of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Black Mountain poets. Gatefold LP w\/ a 4-page booklet and inner sleeve\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ui-tabs ui-corner-all ui-widget ui-widget-content\" id=\"aec-musictabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-hidden=\"false\" class=\"ui-tabs-panel ui-corner-bottom ui-widget-content\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"MusicTracks\" id=\"mt-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracksonly\" id=\"aec-jukebox\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jp-playlist tracksonly\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e Mood Swings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e Ancient Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e Your Hammer, My Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e Patterns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e5\u003c\/span\u003e A Bird of No Address\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e Born Horses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e Everything I Thought I Had Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e There's Always Been a Bird in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ROCK \u0026 ROLL HALL OF FAME RECORD STORE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050938319017,"sku":"5065019688118-R","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/5982\/5577\/files\/MERCURY_REV-BORN_HORSES-VINYL_LP.png?v=1777661134","url":"https:\/\/shop.rockhall.com\/es\/products\/mercury-rev-born-horses-vinyl-lp","provider":"Rock \u0026 Roll Hall of Fame Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}