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The WireOct 22, 2024Born Horses feels like a logical progression, the band’s luscious drift and bittersweet arrangements blossoming into widescreen vignettes of love, loss and revelation, but delivered with a poise and scale previously unseen. [oct 2024, p.58]
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Sep 9, 2024More grounded and yet more transporting than many of their later albums, Born Horses is ample proof that Mercury Rev are still making moving, thoughtful, exciting music -- and like most of their best albums, there's nothing else quite like it.
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Sep 9, 2024Born Horses was a slow process – Donahue compares the patient approach to recognising the “statue already inside the marble” – but it has given rich rewards; a change in focus that remains unmistakably Mercury Rev. [Oct 2024, p.98]
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Sep 6, 2024It [There’s Always Been A Bird In Me] brings a very successful return to a close and confirms how these sonic voyagers still have much to offer.
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Sep 6, 2024Throughout, the album’s lush arrangements make this a delight.
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MojoSep 5, 2024Bands, as Donahue famously sang on Holes, “never work quite right”, but with this late-period beauty, Mercury Rev have hit the cosmic balance perfectly. [Oct 2024, p.83]
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Sep 5, 2024Another exciting addition to the long-running band’s catalog, Born Horses finds the Mercury Rev stretching out and evolving over 35 years into their career.
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Classic Rock MagazineSep 5, 2024A dream experience, Born Horses canters at a fine pace. [Sep 2024, p.75]
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UncutSep 5, 2024On this ninth album of originals, Rev frontman Jonathan Donahue elects to vocalise in a soft whisper rather than his characteristic starry-eyed warble. It works best when their chamber-pop soundbaths are punctuated by rhythmic hooks and ear-catching lines. [Sep 2024, p.37]