Yerself Is Steam
Download links and information about Yerself Is Steam by Mercury Rev. This album was released in 1991 and it belongs to Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic genres. It contains 8 tracks with total duration of 56:39 minutes.
Artist: | Mercury Rev |
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Release date: | 1991 |
Genre: | Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic |
Tracks: | 8 |
Duration: | 56:39 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Chasing a Bee | 7:08 |
2. | Syringe Mouth | 4:00 |
3. | Coney Island Cyclone | 2:34 |
4. | Blue and Black | 5:57 |
5. | Sweet Oddysee of a Cancer Cell T' Center of Yer Heart | 7:36 |
6. | Frittering | 8:45 |
7. | Continuous Trucks and Thunder Under a Mother's Smile | 0:39 |
8. | Very Sleepy Rivers | 20:00 |
Details
[Edit]Music dictated not by logic but by intuition, Yerself Is Steam is an album at war with itself, split by its desire to achieve both melodic pop bliss and white-noise transcendence within the same space; it succeeds brilliantly, avant-bubblegum fuel injected by fits and flourishes of prismatic chaos. From the comic malevolence of David Baker's mad-scientist creations to Jonathan Donahue's opiate lullabies, Yerself Is Steam is vividly cinematic — between the roller coaster feedback of "Coney Island Cyclone" and the narcoleptic ebb and flow of the climactic "Very Sleepy Rivers," the songs perfectly evoke their titular aspirations; likewise, from the album title (say it out loud) onward, the lyrics revel in the quirks and idiosyncrasies of language, buoyed by a homophonous prankishness and dada rhyme schemes, which, in their own odd way, suggest a kind of poetry. A near-perfect debut from a band that would only get better from here on out. [The American edition appends the superb single "Car Wash Hair," while some foreign releases include the bonus disc Lego My Ego, a crazy quilt knitted together from unlikely covers (Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay," Miles Davis' "Shhh/Peaceful"), Peel Sessions highlights, and wonderfully loopy studio chatter.]