Album Of The Day: Mercury by The Prayer Chain

Album Art of They Prayer Chain's Mercury album - On the bottom quarter of the area, an image of a blue/silver nature, maybe of some shiny rocks over water or just water in glass. On the top three quarters, the top half of some sort of blue-green sphere inside some orange fluid, with some large orange bubbles right next to the sphere, and smaller clear bubbles inside the orange fluid. The two images are separated by a thick black line, and on that is listed the band's name in bright blue script-like font with a thin white and then a black border. Below the band's name is the album title in a smaller font and a golden orange color. Behind that, over the top of the two photos, are red scribbles or maybe red paint strokes.

Growing up as the oldest of five kids, my parents were very busy, and didn't spend much time at home listening to music. Music listening became a past-time of mine in 1997 or 1998 in earnest, so I'm still only now catching up on what I missed for the decades before. So, for example, today is the first time I've ever listened to alternative rock band The Prayer Chain, who were most active in the early to mid '90s. Released on this day 30 years ago, I believe, this is their final studio album before the band members went on to other separate projects. It's definitely my kind of album, with 10 tracks totaling 57 minutes, so some of these are long, meandering jams. There's squealing guitars and the vocals are so deeply mixed into the music that it's really hard to hear what they're singing. But it's a great underground vibe from that era and fun to hear for the first time today.

Release Year: 1995
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