Dat Maddie Kerr en haar boys ook vette rock&roll kunnen brengen, bewijzen ze met hun nieuwe single. Gaspedaal indrukken, de gitaren, drums en bas laten knallen, scheuren en pompen, recht door zee zonder tierlantijntjes. Kerr kreunt en plaagt er zich vocaal héél straf doorheen. Mercury moet zowat het strafste zijn wat Nashville op vlak van alternatieve rock de laatste jaren heeft voortgebracht. Wat verlang ik ernaar dat deze brok energie tot bij ons komt om live eender wel kot af te breken.
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“Swarm The Hive Mind is about breaking out of a box; questioning and sometimes going off track of how everyone else thinks, lives, and acts,” says Maddie. “It's easy to get stuck in hive-minded thinking, and it's important to see things from all angles and veer off from what seems normal sometimes.”
“Swarm The Hive Mind” is an apt second chapter to the sound Kerr captured on “Together We Are One, You And I,” a three-track project comprised of “Born in Early May,” “Special,” and “Crick” and produced by Farrar. An experimental voyage of grief, pain, and loss, the trio of songs oscillates between grunge and iridescent indie rock as they wander through the depths of human suffering and emerge resilient. Infinite black voids, spiritual iconography, and the scarlet glow of embers and flames define the EP's companion short film, following Kerr and a cast of characters from different walks of life through narrative vignettes, contemporary dance, and poetic abstractions.
mercury's arrival has made serious noise since the release of a pair of singles in “Trying” and “Woolgathering” late last year, with attention pouring in from the likes of Nylon, Paste Magazine, Office Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, FLOOD Magazine, Under The Radar, Billboard and FLOODFM and placements across numerous Spotify & Apple playlists. For mercury, songwriting is a form of survival, a means of finding clarity in an often cruel world. It's everything Kerr has known dating back to the day 22 years ago when Mazzy Star's “Fade Into You” blasted as she was born.
