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    The Secret Migration

    The timing is excellent for Mercury Rev to make one of their best albums yet. Since the release of this Catskills-based group's 2001 album All Is Dream, friends and kindred souls like the Flaming Lips and Grandaddy have nurtured growing interest in glistening, spacey tunes tied to mischievous art...

    2005 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Blending alumni of the Flaming Lips and disciples of Velvet Underground crony Tony Conrad, Mercury Rev revved up art-punk engines on Yerself Is Steam. It's one of the freshest -- and weirdest -- debut albums of the '90s: A vocalist murmurs non sequiturs, flutes flutter, jarring sound effects intrude and fade, and three heavily distorted guitars whirl and plink. On "Chasing a Bee," white-noise...

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