{"product_id":"upper-wilds-mercury-metallic-silver-vinyl","title":"Upper Wilds - Mercury - Metallic Silver Vinyl","description":"Release Date: 8\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStargazing Brooklyn noise-rock cosmonauts Upper Wilds - the power-trio led by Parts \u0026amp; Labor co-founder Dan Friel - return with another set of lean anthems filtered through a flamethrower. Their speediest, most explosive album yet, Mercury, is a meditation on death, with Friel expounding on his brush with skin cancer, climate change, funerals, Henry Kissinger, and a world seemingly on fire. Buoyed by recent tours with acts like Pelican, Uniform, Psychic Graveyard and Savak, the trio's increased speed is met with a precision that gives every hairpin turn more wallop.\n\nMercury's molten, non-stop riffing is captured with grit and punch by engineer Travis Harrison (Guided By Voices, The Men) and is bolstered by longtime collaborator\/saxophonist and fellow-New York mainstay Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers) and vocalist Erin Dawson of LA-based experimental black metal band Genital Shame. Jason Binnick's basslines shine brighter than before dancing in tandem with Friel's guitar licks on \"Death Song #3\" and bringing equal parts melody and thunderous weight to \"Green-Wood Cemetery.\" Jeff Ottenbacher's drumming oscillates between machine gun fills and sledge hammer pounding, giving each riff more momentum and bite. Upper Wilds' space-rock adventures through their recent albums Mars, Venus, \u0026amp; Jupiter came replete with stories of the heavens and humanity alike. On this fourth installment, the closest planet to the sun, things take a darker turn. The small, barren planet Mercury was named after the gods' speedy messenger and guide to the underworld, and the album syphons Upper Wilds' fuzz-pop aesthetics into concise, scorched anthems about the brevity and fragility of life with the ferocity of a band playing on the edge of extinction.","brand":"ALMI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52349808509230,"sku":"THRILL-659-X","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/7961\/9118\/files\/4519775-3627348.jpg?v=1784861204","url":"https:\/\/ottsvillerecordgarage.com\/products\/upper-wilds-mercury-metallic-silver-vinyl","provider":"Ottsville Record Garage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}