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Mercury Falls

Quadrangle

By Mercury Falls

Label: Porto Franco Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Spring Pools; Speak Without Ears; Quad Idea; Years Without Speech; Insurance Rep; Solar Plexus; Lullaby for Beane.

Mercury Falls: Quadrangle

by Dan McClenaghan
August 23, 2010

It begins with a stark electric drone, an eerie, throbbing repetition from which the familiar cry of a saxophone emerges. The tune is “Spring Pools," and it sounds like music that swells out of the quiet after the Apocalypse. The group is Mercury Falls, a saxophone/guitar/bass/drums ensemble with some deft electronic embellishments. The music could be ...

Mercury Falls: Quadrangle

by Bruce Lindsay
August 22, 2010

Mercury Falls is an intriguing and somewhat ambivalent band name--and whether it refers to a celestial body, a mythological messenger, plummeting water, dropping temperatures or, indeed, to nothing at all, it's a name that readily reflects the fascinating and at times beautiful music that the band creates on its debut release, Quadrangle. Although ...