Mercury Rev announces new album, Born Horses

Mercury Rev has announced a new album. The veteran psych group return with their first new album of original music (not counting their song-for-song covers album of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete) in nine years, Born Horses, which is out September 6 via Bella Union. The first single is “Patterns.” Check out its video below.

The group said in a statement, “When we gaze up at the stars in the sky at night, the flickering lights seem random. If we could zoom out and see all of the galaxies revolving around each other, we would see the order in it. There are only Patterns on top of Patterns…”

Jonathan Donohue also said about the album, “Since our beginning in the mid 80’s with David Baker through the recording of Born Horses with new permanent members, Woodstock native (pianist) Jesse Chandler and Austrian born (keyboardist) Marion Genser, we’ve celebrated this unspoken trust in the ‘statue already inside the marble’. We didn’t make Born Horses by throwing clay on top of clay; we allowed Time to reveal what was always there.”

Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs is featured on our list of 10 Essential Chamber Pop Albums.

Mercury Rev Born Horses tracklist:

1. Mood Swings
2. Ancient Love
3. Your Hammer, My Heart
4. Patterns
5.A Bird Of No Address
6. Born Horses
7. Everything I Thought I Had Lost
8. There’s Always Been A Bird In Me