If the sanctuary inside the tonality of Ineffective Surprise! is something to go by, The Mercury Sounds have develop into masters of carving relics of nostalgic experimentation that border on divine intervention.
The Baltimore-based duo, Jason Stauffer and Josh Krechmer, have been long-hauling their sonic telepathy since main college. 20 years later, they’re nonetheless refusing to color inside the strains. Their fusion of indie-pop vitality and folk-rock introspection culminates in Ineffective Surprise!, a cosmic lament steeped in lo-fi 70s alchemy. Via pure vocal proclivity and delicate lyrical agony, they sculpted an aching confessional that stings with the sentiment of not being constructed for a world that retains shifting beneath your ft.
The best way the vocals bleed with weary existentialism in opposition to the gauzy swell of heat distortion and glimmering, melancholic strings carries the identical weight as a reminiscence you possibly can’t outgrow. The verses tether you to vulnerability, whereas the refrain throws you into an orbit of quiet resignation.
Though it could be unimaginable to crown a Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan in our trendy and fractured business, it’s clear that if Ineffective Surprise! had surfaced fifty years in the past, it could be taking part in by grainy AM radios as a nationwide folks treasure.
The Mercury Sounds exhaled a fact for the quiet disenfranchised who’ve lengthy since given up pretending they match the mould, for those who can align to that specific department of melancholy, hit play.
Ineffective Surprise! is now accessible to stream on all main platforms, together with SoundCloud.
Assessment by Amelia Vandergast
