Merce Lemon // Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild LP [BLACK/COLOR] / TAPE

アメリカ・ペンシルベニアのシンガーソングライターMerce Lemonが、2024年9月に同国LAのインディーレーベルからリリースしたアルバムです。

インディーロック〜インディーフォーク〜オルタナ・カントリー9曲を収録。

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Available on 12" black vinyl, 12" bubblegum pink vinyl, or cassette in norelco case.

Tracklist:

1. Birdseed 04:02
2. Backyard Lover 05:28
3. Window 03:44
4. Foolish and Fast 04:12
5. Rain 02:42
6. Crow 03:29
7. Slipknot 03:33
8. Blueberry Heaven 02:52
9. Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild 04:50

Text excerpt by Darling Records:

"...These songs range, often within the structure of a single track, from ballads to blown out electric riffs combating feedback, harmonies concealed behind wailing guitars, both dependent on each other as they careen towards new meaning. They build slowly, synthesizing a naturalist’s penchant for romance and nihilism to create the warring, triumphantly escalating nature of Merce’s lyrics and her band’s heavy entropy. For Merce, the only certainty is the endlessly shifting nature of a river, roaring straight past a dogwood, never missing the opportunity to watch a petal fluttering to the ground in the rear view.

They are songs of belonging just as much as they are songs of longing – ”Say I was a lonely gust of wind / could I redirect them,” she muses in “Crow”, one of the more hopeful tracks on the record. Its structure is simple, gentle acoustics pushed forward by an ever-present and fluid percussion that guides the song as naturally as Merce hopes to guide the “murderous flock,” forgoing the voyeur in all of our hearts and comfortably settling in the supportive role of a shepherd – “I’d make a city of this ghost town / even let the crows come / rest their necks / and nest their young.”

There is an oaken strength in 'Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild' that makes it easy to love – once wild, still free, honest and familiar. Its genesis is timeless, its restlessness eternal – it is one cohesive yet unanswered question built around, and dependent upon, the life-giving force of nature that came before Merce. The album’s closing track also inspires its title – a lonely ballad of forlorn projection into an unknown future, forever protected by the comforting green of Pittsburgh’s hills, rivers, bridges, and homes:"

Artist : Merce Lemon

Label : Darling Records

CAT No : DAR036