- Secret for a Song
- Secret for a Song
- Across Yer Ocean
- Across Yer Ocean
- Diamonds
- Black Forest (Lorelei)
- Black Forest (Lorelei)
- Vermillion
- In the Wilderness
- In the Wilderness
- In a Funny Way
- In a Funny Way
- My Love
- Moving On
- Moving On
- The Climbing Rose
- The Climbing Rose
- Arise
- First-Time Mother's Joy (Flying)
- First-Time Mother's Joy (Flying)
- Down Poured the Heavens
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Once upon a time, these upstate New Yorkers seemed hell-bent on launching themselves into the outer realms of the solar system with their wide-open space-rock jams and interstellar lyrics. As The Secret Migration proves, they're far more comfortable on terra firma these days -- so much so that they've made this concept album something of an homage to Mother Nature. The band's sound is still remarkably lush, still undeniably "psychedelic," but -- on songs like the pastoral, piano-laced "Secret for a Song" -- there's a newfound warmth, a sense of hominess that could only come from a long stretch nestled in the middle of nowhere. That adds to the burnished beauty of "Across Yer Ocean," which follows a parabolic arc that recalls nothing so much as a rainbow rising over a mist-shrouded hillside. Nature motifs pop up again and again here, but they're not uniformly bucolic, as evidenced by the sinister guitar lines that Grasshopper plunges into the heart of "Black Forest (Lorelei)." As ever, the band pay very close attention to detail, particularly in the disc's sequencing, gradually ramping up tempos and volume, peaking on the Spector-esque "In a Funny Way" and again on the tympani-powered "Arise." Rev mainman Jonathan Donohue has never been shy about stretching for things that seem to be out of his reach, but that willingness to risk a psychic spill -- and the ability to transform those emotional skinned knees into beautiful music -- is what makes the band so special.
Product Details
Release Date: | 03/01/2005 |
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Label: | V2 Int'l |
UPC: | 5033197292328 |
catalogNumber: | 102923 |
Rank: | 11700 |
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Album Credits
Performance Credits
Mercury Rev Primary ArtistJonathan Donahue Group Member
Adam Peters Track Performer,Musician
Adam Widoff Track Performer,Musician
Jeff Mercel Group Member
Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak Group Member
Rich Robinson Track Performer,Musician
Mary Gavazzi Fridmann Track Performer,Musician
Carlos Anthony Molina Group Member
Technical Credits
Mercury Rev Composer,ProducerKevin Salem Engineer
Jonathan Donahue Composer
Dave Fridmann Producer
Scott Petito Engineer
Matthew Cullen Engineer
Jeff Mercel Composer
Todd Vos Engineer
Bill Racine Engineer
Max Avery Lichtenstein Engineer
Amonda Wachob Cover Art
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