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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelCo-Operative / Cooperative Music / Downtown / V2
EAN0602527668178
eBay Product ID (ePID)99338264
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
Era1990s
Run Time5450 Sec
Release Year2011
FormatCD
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenrePop, Alternative, Rock
TypeAlbum
StyleEthereal, Neo-Psychedelia
ArtistMercury Rev
Release TitleDeserter's Songs
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs2
DistributionUniversal Music
Number of Tracks24
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
ReviewsIncluded in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.", Ranked #30 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "The results were rhapsodic: bowed saw symphonies and the ineffable 'Holes', a fantastical elegy to magic and loss.", "...their fourth effort feels like a watershed, the point where their heady mix of orchestral pop, roots rock, psychedlia, prog, choral, and chamber music finally crystallizes into something special and damn near ineffable..." - Rating: A-, Ranked #30 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year 1998", 8 (out of 10) - "...It's an album of shameless good-byes: to Manhattan, to love, and (most painfully) to not giving a shit. Successfully repressing his Sonic Youth tics, Donahue starts with goofy, SMILE-era Beach Boys and heaps on even thicker strata of strings and brass than SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE..."