Mercurial Rage - The Funeral Sessions (EP)
ARTIST.....: Mercurial Rage
TITLE......: The Funeral Sessions (EP)
LABEL......: Self-Released (Rage)
URL........: www.mercurialrage.com
RIP DATE...: Jul-08-2007
STORE DATE.: Jun-30-2007
GENRE......: New Wave
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 29,10 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Star Star 03:51
02 - Draw Your Own Picture 05:26
03 - Simon 03:49
04 - Devil Girl 03:10
05 - I Sold My Soul 04:30
06 - Soldier Boy 04:19
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25:05 min
Release Notes:
www.myspace.com/mercurialrage
"Mercurial Rage is the lovechild of angst and lust, filling the
vacuum left by today's sensationalistic pop music. In the Rage,
fans will find this generation's voicing of inner turmoil, dirty
thoughts and bitter questions. This band is a well-cased group of
sexy beat masters." -JKulju (www.jakekulju.com)
"Mercurial Rage hasn't been at it together all that long - about a
year. Nonetheless, they know what they are doing. They are at
their best on a cut like "Simon," combining smart-ass attitude
with a hip-slung groove that dares you not to dance."-Dwight
Hobbes of The Pulse of The Twin Cities
"The Funeral Sessions is six songs' worth of gloomy electronic
missives from your romantically complicated year abroad. Hollow
drum-machine beats mark the time between first making eye contact
and making out on the dance floor, while bass lines throb with the
next morning's regrets. Di'Greggario sings reproaches to
characters seeking solace in false embracesùwith the pursuit of
fame, with clubbing every night, with devil women who offer sex
but steal your soul. Yet these tunes can't bring themselves to
practice abstinence. Instead, they delight in the skittery,
ever-changing rush of digitalized distortion, popping one
electronic effect after another for a high that's always shifting
shapes."-Sarah Askari City Pages
"They play sleek, retro electronic rock, with lead singer Michael
Di'Greggario channeling Depeche Mode's David Gahan (and maybe a
little Martin Gore, as well)."-Ross Raihala Pioneer Press
"The Funeral Sessions" is precisely the sort of album to get naked
to, a six-song sample from Mercurial Rage's live set list that
details a shadowy city underbelly of the fashionable and
fame-hungry, of the dirty minds and all their disillusioned
questions."-Haily Gostas The Minnesota Daily
"If you didn't grow up in the eighties, hike back a few years
progressively with Mercurial Rage, who elegantly delve into your
soul unlike most electronica-experimental music, which may
precipitate your need for an exorcism."-Mitchell Houle of The
Pulse of the Twin Cities