MERCY CHOIR
"Like A Fountain Stirred" C38
(Dead Language Records)




Mercy Choir takes a page out of the Castanets’ playbook on “How to Darkamify an Indie-Folk Song” & adds a healthy sprinkling of showtunesiness, making “Like A Fountain Stirred” its very own, stand-alone beast to be reckoned with. While the songs hang loosely from a pop’s tried & true scaffoldings, a whole host of careful arrangements, lush orchestration, various tempo/rhythm changes, consonant/dissonant shifts & layered male/female vocals make this a serious, psychedelic study in pop music, & well worth repeated listens to hunt down all those subtle sonic details.

https://mercychoir.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-fountain-stirred
and
http://www.paulbelbusti.com/

-- Jacob An Kittenplan