{"product_id":"upper-wilds-mercury-music-cd-790377065923","title":"Upper Wilds - Mercury - Music CD","description":"Stargazing 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.","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49680702996722,"sku":"TJ659.2","price":20.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/4519774-3623234.jpg?v=1781616357","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/upper-wilds-mercury-music-cd-790377065923","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}