Voyage To Mercury

If Mercury Rev never make another decent record again, I'll still hold them dear. My guess is that many of you will feel likewise. Their 'Deserter's Songs' album is ten years old now, but it still has a monumental presence.

Those songs will always conjur up the fleeting rapture and the grinding anxiety of the late Nineties. As they tended to their own damaged lives in the Catskill Mountains, they created something that moved us all. Play 'Holes', 'Opus 40' or 'Goddess On A Highway' and you're instantly back there.

Tonight I'll be playing a few tracks from the new album, 'Snowflake Midnight'. Advance reviews have painted a confused impression of electronics, big rave tunes and strangeness. Which is pretty much how it is. But it's also lovely and individual

I'll also be sampling the new record by TV On The Radio, another stubborn idea that will light up the critics polls in December.