Reminder: Mercury Rev Is At The Independent Tonight, Tomorrow

In case you find yourself needing to escape your holiday shopping and commitments, may we kindly suggest a trip to the world of the lush, psychedelic pop of Mercury Rev? The band will be at The Independent tonight and tomorrow, in support of their latest record Snowflake Midnight (and, presumably, its online companion Strange Attractor). If you dig on reverbed vocals, solid songwriting, and wave after wave of killer synths, well - it doesn't get much better than this. Not to mention, it's the tail end of their national tour: we're guessing it'll be a pretty damn good pair of gigs.

Mercury Rev: New Records, To Play Two Nights At The Independent

It's been a while since we've heard anything from psychedelic dream rockers Mercury Rev, so we were a bit surprised to see that they have two shows scheduled at the Independent on December 17th and 18th. Well, turns out we just weren't paying close enough attention: The band has a new record that drops on September 30th called Snowflake Midnight. What's more, they're releasing a free, "companion record"(apparently all instrumental) entitled Strange Attractor which will be downloadable from the band's website in exchange for your email details. All in all, it sounds like the band is entering a pretty prolific phase, and we're excited to hear just what these two new records sound like. The album lyrics and many reviews (quite complimentary, we might add) are already on the band's site, along with an apparent theme of....cats and bunnies? We'll have to wait and see. In the meantime you can grab one of our faves off the last record below.

Tickets for the Independent gig go on sale this Sunday.

mp3: Mercury Rev - In A Funny Way (Yousendit, click through)