{"product_id":"mercury-metallic-silver-vinyl","title":"Mercury [Metallic Silver Vinyl]","description":"\u003ch2\u003eUpper Wilds - Mercury [Metallic Silver Vinyl]\u003c\/h2\u003e\nStargazing 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.\nMercury’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.\nUpper 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.\nA1. Mercury A2. Fever A3. Death Song #3 A4. Burning Bright A5. Reaper B1. Green-Wood Cemetery B2. Timekeeper B3. Dark Road B4. Hellfire B5. Dying Star","brand":"Upper Wilds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48811925405913,"sku":"790377065916","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/drownedworldrecords.com\/en-jp\/products\/mercury-metallic-silver-vinyl","provider":"Drowned World Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}