Mercury Rev
Yerself Is Steam (1990)
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Length:  49:26
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Chasing A Bee    7:12
      2.  
      		 Syringe Mouth    4:04
      3.  
      		 Coney Island Cyclone    2:37
      4.  
      		 Blue And Black    6:00
      5.  
      		 Sweet Oddysee Of A Cancer Cell T' Th' Center Of Yer Heart    7:40
      6.  
      		 Frittering    8:48
      7.  
      		 Continuous Trucks And Thunder Under A Mother's Smile    0:43
      8.  
      		 Very Sleepy Rivers    12:19
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      Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam

      Label: Mint Films - MINT CD 4 - Made in England
      Year: 1990

      Jason Ankeny - All Music Guide -
      Music dictated not by logic but by intuition, Yerself Is Steam is an album at war with itself, split by its desire to achieve both melodic pop bliss and white-noise transcendence within the same space; it succeeds brilliantly, avant-bubblegum fuel injected by fits and flourishes of prismatic chaos. From the comic malevolence of David Baker's mad-scientist creations to Jonathan Donahue's opiate lullabies, Yerself Is Steam is vividly cinematic -- between the roller coaster feedback of "Coney Island Cyclone" and the narcoleptic ebb and flow of the climactic "Very Sleepy Rivers," the songs perfectly evoke their titular aspirations; likewise, from the album title (say it out loud) onward, the lyrics revel in the quirks and idiosyncrasies of language, buoyed by a homophonous prankishness and dada rhyme schemes, which, in their own odd way, suggest a kind of poetry. A near-perfect debut from a band that would only get better from here on out.
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