{"product_id":"upper-wilds-mercury","title":"Upper Wilds - Mercury","description":"Stargazing 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, \u003ci\u003eMercury\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMercury\u003c\/i\u003e’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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 \u003ci\u003eMercury\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Thrill Jockey Records","offers":[{"title":"Metallic Silver LP","offer_id":51402125345046,"sku":"RMX-69505","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51402125607190,"sku":"RMX-69506","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/201375132615.jpg?v=1781101738","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/upper-wilds-mercury","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}