Episodes
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| Album Club Special - Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs |
Steve celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs by playing the album out in full. The album was the fourth album by Mercury Rev, released September 29, 1998 via V2 Records.
The success of this album was a surprise for the band. After the commercial failure of their previous album See You on the Other Side', which frontman Jonathan Donahue considered to be the band's best album, they decided to make one more record entirely for themselves. The band ignored commercial influences, and expected to split up shortly afterward. Surprisingly, Deserter's Songs' became their most successful album, bringing them popularity in the UK and Europe.
NME's John Mulvey gave the album 9/10: "With his relationships a tangled mess and his band fragmenting around him, 'Deserter's Songs' is Donahue's document of escape Album Club [steve Lamacq] [6 Music]
| Title | Comments |
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| Album Club Special - Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs |