Mercury Rev are back with new single “Ancient Love,” the track is off the band’s forthcoming album Born Horses, available September 6th via Bella Union. The band shares, “What we are today comes from our thoughts and perceptions of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life for tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind which originates from ancient love.” “Ancient Love,” follows Lead single “Patterns”. Mercury Rev recently announced new live dates, including stops in Dublin, Glasgow, Amsterdam, and Sydney, Australia.

The band recently announced live dates,

Born Horses is vocally inspired by the spirits of art minimalist Tony Conrad (LaMonte Young’s Dream Syndicate w/ John Cale and a close friend to The Velvet Underground) and beat poet Robert Creeley (one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century and an associate of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Black Mountain poets), acolytes of progressive thought and action who both taught at the University at Buffalo, the city where the band was formed.

The album title, named after the majestically rippling sixth track “Born Horses”, was chosen because its words resonate through the entire record, encompassing the idea of flight (“I dreamed we were born horses waiting for wings”) and the phrase “You and I” that appears at different junctures on the album. This is not the concept of two separate people, but two parts of oneself.

Mercury Rev
Born Horses
tracklist
Bella Union

1. Mood Swings
2. Ancient Love
3. Your Hammer, My Heart
4. Patterns
5. A Bird Of No Address
6. Born Horses
7. Everything I Thought I Had Lost
8. There’s Always Been A Bird In Me

Mercury Rev 2024 Tour Dates

Aug
8
Adelaide, SA, Australia
Hindley Street Music Hall

Aug
9
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Enmore Theatre

Aug
10
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Forum Melbourne

Aug
14
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
The Tivoli

Aug
16
Fremantle, WA, Australia
Metropolis Fremantle

Aug
18
Auckland, New Zealand
The Powerstation

Oct
27
Belfast, UK
Mandela Hall

Oct
28
Limerick, Ireland
Dolans Warehouse

Oct
29
Galway, Ireland
Roisin Dubh

Oct
30
Cork, Ireland
Cyprus Avenue

Oct
31
Dublin, Ireland
The Button Factory

Nov
2
Norwich, UK
Norwich Arts Centre

Nov
3
Bristol, UK
Trinity Centre

Nov
4
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Boiler Shop

Nov
6
Glasgow, UK
The Garage

Nov
7
Leeds, UK
Brudenell Social Club

Nov
8
Cambridge, UK
Cambridge Junction

Nov
11
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tolhuistuin

Pre order Born Horses by Mercury Rev HERE