Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited

The Guardian 80

(Bella Union)

With albums such as Yerself Is Steam and See You on the Other Side, Mercury Rev’s 1990s were defined by bold experimentation. But that sense of adventure has been largely absent in the 20 years since 1998’s Deserter’s Songs, their music too often solid as opposed to spectacular. So if nothing else, The Delta Sweete Revisited offers an unexpected change of direction.

Pitchfork 45

A half-century after the release of Bobbie Gentry’s imaginative second album, the art-rock band revisits it as if in a daze but with the help of over a dozen brilliant singers.