![]() ![]() This one we got the feeling a ways into it that it wasn't quite the same, it was moving into quite uncharted waters for us." Sometimes you can't see it, and sometimes it isn't different. Speaking of the shift, Donahue says "They are all quantum leaps, even maybe if you don't see the extent when the artists says that this record is going to be completely different from the last. If, perhaps, their recent 'Best of' marked a line in the sand after the somewhat below par Secret Migration (the end point of the territory that Deserter's Songs began to explore), then new record Snowflake Midnight is ambitious in the band's desire to start again, a renewed vigor derived from changed circumstances and practical limitations. Yet this new, gracefully aging Mercury Rev have pulled the stops out to release an album that marks a significant shift in their sound. Grasshopper, for once, is without his shades. Donahue's Philip of Spain-style beard is now flecked with grey, the jewelery gone, and he turns down the offer of a Guinness. Fast forward seven years to a late summer afternoon in London, and Donahue seem to have entered more genteel times. ![]() ![]() Donahue, dressed in black with silver rings on every finger, had a flash in his eye, while Grasshopper was stern and taciturn behind his black shades. The last time I interviewed Mercury Rev, shortly before the release of All Is Dream in 2001, I arrived at a West London hotel to find Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper tucking into a 10am breakfast of red wine and American Spirit cigarettes. ![]()
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