Since forming in 1989 in Buffalo, New York, Mercury Rev has made a career of boldly exploring the fringes of artistic perception, channeling colors and sounds and visions that always seem just beyond our mortal reach. The Guardian hailed the group as “a rarity in indie rock: a band who have continually evolved their sound, pushing at the boundaries of what rock music actually means over 25 years, borrowing from jazz, funk, doo-wop, techno, folk and more along the way,” while Rolling Stone praised their “majestic chaos,” and the BBC lauded their “shimmering psychedelic pop, immersive indie-rock, [and] spectacularly engrossing passages of sumptuous instrumentation.”  The band’s 1991 debut, ‘Yerself Is Steam,’ landed on Pitchfork’s Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, and their 1998 breakthrough, ‘Deserter’s Songs’, upon its release was named NME’s Album of the Year, Pitchfork’s 100 Favorite Records of the 1990s (2003), Melody Maker’s All Time Top 100 Albums (2000), Uncut’s  200 Greatest Albums of All Time (2016) and multiple1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die lists. Diverse musical collaborations with legendary artistic luminaries as well as major festival and network television performances around the world have solidified their status as One of America’s most pioneering groups capable of straddling the line between mainstream appeal and progressive musical experimentation… Recorded in the Catskills, the band’s ninth album, Born Horses, is out now on Bella Union.

Pledging to Keep it Alive with her debut album in 2022 (In The Red), Liz Lamere doubles down with her latest full-length second album, One Never Knows, released on In The Red, June 14. Dedicated to her late partner Alan Vega, with whom she collaborated on his solo works for over three decades, Lamere’s minimalist approach to creating music is clearly in line with the Vega aesthetic that she helped develop with him during countless experimental hours in the studio since the late 80s. Today sees the release of lead single, “Vibration,” with an accompanying video directed by filmmaker and photographic artist, Jasmine Hirst. Says Lamere; "Vibration is about personal empowerment. The pulse represents our life force and the power that comes from within. It's about commanding that force and manifesting what we want to see in the mirror's reflection. It's about believing until the impossible becomes the probable." "The video intentionally captures the expressions of one's personal movements within the song. Movements that are both poetically calm and violently harsh are juxtaposed to transform into various stages of oneself and the subliminal influences that are contained within the song. The video was shot by Jasmine Hirst in one day in New York City." Lamere teamed up again with her and Vega’s son Dante Vega Lamere in their Dujang Prang NYC home studio surrounded by the Suicide singer’s spectacular light sculptures, co-producer Jared Artaud, and mixing and mastering engineers Ted Young and Josh Bonati. One Never Knows is thematically charged with Lamere’s genre-defying boundless sonic energy and unparalleled poetically driven lyrics. Each song threads the needle with the defiant lust for life energy that motivated Lamere through her early double life as both high-end Wall Street lawyer and downtown New York punk drummer, then meeting her life partner and performing, writing, recording and touring internationally with Alan Vega from 1985 until his death in 2016. Since then, together with Artaud she has co-produced two Vega albums from the vast Vega Vault archives, Mutator (Sacred Bones, 2021) and Insurrection, released on May 31, 2024 on In the Red Records. Vega had always encouraged Liz to create her own music. After he passed away, she began writing as a form of catharsis, which became the inspirational bedrock for her solo music. Lamere said, “at the end of Alan’s life, he was using the expression “one never knows” to underscore that we don't know how much time we have in this realm or where this journey will lead us. It was a phrase that had resonated so much for me. Alan taught me to go bravely into the unknown; to be fully present in the moment and deeply explore what is already here.” As for the themes on “ONK,” Lamere says, “this album touches on universal themes and variations on those ideas that are very personal to me. I hope it will also resonate with listeners. Knowing we never fully know, accepting the certainty of uncertainty and striving to keep learning and growing is incredibly freeing.”