Shoegaze/dream pop collective Mercvrial have released their latest single Pink Frost. You can check out the video for the track via YouTube below.
“Pink Frost is the song on the EP that is most unlike the others as it’s vaguely… electronica (of all things). To us, it sounds like a collaboration between Depeche Mode and Sad Lovers & Giants, which was pretty much an accident. We wanted to cover the song but didn’t want to do a straight rendition of it. And as our reinterpretation wandered into electronica territory… we didn’t try to stop it.”
– David, Mercvrial
Hailing from Mexico, California, Wisconsin and Virginia, Mercvrial is an eclectic group that enters the sonic landscapes between shoegaze, dream-pop, early-’80s and quasi-psychedelic tendencies, aiming to modestly imprint on the sounds from Creation, Flying Nun, Imaginary and other labels of the like that they embraced during their formative years. This effort ends up projecting a feel for shoegaze legends like Ride, Slowdive and The Chills.
Due to their geographical separation David (vocals, guitar), Ricardo (guitars, vocals), Cuervo (bass), Rose (keyboards, marimba), and Dr. Ronald (drums, echo, reverb) were never in the same place at the same time. To get around this, a lot of the EP was recorded remotely and shared their files over online cloud services. David then produced the majority of the recording in his home studio.
‘The Stars, Like Dust’ is the new EP from Mercvrial, which takes its name from the Isaac Asimov book of the same moniker. It explores the size and significance of human beings on a big rock hurling through space and the ensuing feelings of existential bewilderment.
Lyrics often refer to films, books or other pieces of pop culture. Otherworld for example refers loosely to the film Prometheus while Hsieh Su-wei is an homage to the enigmatic Taiwanese professional tennis player. Although lyrics run the gamut of the relatively obscure and are open to many interpretations, the singular theme of existentialism gravitates the whole EP together.
Stream ‘The Stars, Like Dust’ via Soundcloud
Purchase ‘The Stars, Like Dusr’ via Bandcamp
‘The Stars, Like Dust’ EP track list
1. Otherworld
2. Carnival
3. Pink Frost
4. Girlwish (II)
5. Hsieh Su-Wei
