{"product_id":"upper-wilds-mercury-cd","title":"Upper Wilds – Mercury Music CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDan Friel spent years in Parts \u0026amp; Labor pushing rock music toward its structural limits, and Upper Wilds carries that restless DNA forward without softening a single edge. Mercury lands in a lineage of New York noise-rock that treats volume as vocabulary, sitting comfortably alongside the city's most uncompromising practitioners while remaining entirely its own beast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStargazing Brooklyn noise-rock cosmonauts Upper Wilds - the power-trio led by Parts \u0026amp; Labor co-founder Dan Friel - return with another set of lean anthems filtered through a flamethrower. Their speediest, most explosive album yet, Mercury, is a meditation on death, with Friel expounding on his brush with skin cancer, climate change, funerals, Henry Kissinger, and a world seemingly on fire. Buoyed by recent tours with acts like Pelican, Uniform, Psychic Graveyard and Savak, the trio's increased speed is met with a precision that gives every hairpin turn more wallop.Mercury's molten, non-stop riffing is captured with grit and punch by engineer Travis Harrison (Guided By Voices, The Men) and is bolstered by longtime collaborator\/saxophonist and fellow-New York mainstay Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers) and vocalist Erin Dawson of LA-based experimental black metal band Genital Shame. Jason Binnick's basslines shine brighter than before dancing in tandem with Friel's guitar licks on \"Death Song #3\" and bringing equal parts melody and thunderous weight to \"Green-Wood Cemetery.\" Jeff Ottenbacher's drumming oscillates between machine gun fills and sledge hammer pounding, giving each riff more momentum and bite.Upper Wilds' space-rock adventures through their recent albums Mars, Venus, \u0026amp; Jupiter came replete with stories of the heavens and humanity alike. On this fourth installment, the closest planet to the sun, things take a darker turn. The small, barren planet Mercury was named after the gods' speedy messenger and guide to the underworld, and the album syphons Upper Wilds' fuzz-pop aesthetics into concise, scorched anthems about the brevity and fragility of life with the ferocity of a band playing on the edge of extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen=\"\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Mercury\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Fever\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Death Song #3\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Burning Bright\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Reaper\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. Green-Wood Cemetery\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7. Timekeeper\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8. Dark Road\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9. Hellfire\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. Dying Star\u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 790377065923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thrill Jockey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.28.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"relix.shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991395541234,"sku":"221405181","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/packshot-upper-wilds-mercury-cd-relix.jpg?v=1787925998","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/upper-wilds-mercury-cd","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}