"If you'd like to purchase any Mercies music, you can still find the songs at a bunch of digital distributors, (itunes, snocap etc....). The CD version will be out of print for a while. If you'd like to get on the waiting list, please send us a message, and we'll notify you when we have them back.....
The Snocap store is at the Mikey Jukebox MySpace page as well. Feel free to go and check out a few other tunes as well, there...
www.myspace.com/mikeyjukebox -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"With a jaunty nod to British and American influences, The Mercies have made a record that would be right at home in the Elephant Six Collective. Cheeky keyboards dart through uncluttered kick and snare while overdriven guitars bounce along with melodies, offering a tight and tidy package of guitar pop. Just when you’re really settling in to the album, you’re pummeled with stacked, clean, multi-part harmonies, and occasional affected drums that further drive the slightly dreamy sound directly out of this atmosphere and into orbit. The record even sports a mellower acoustic track. Perhaps the most impressive part of the overall product is that The Mercies have managed to build a cohesive album that hints at the best parts of the last wave of industry changing bands (The Killers, Interpol), but aren’t afraid to make a pure pop song that is as jubilant as it is catchy." -Pamela at CD Baby ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"As the band's frontman and principle songwriter, Mike James longed to form a musical outfit capable of churning out the kind of hits that shape a generation of kids turning on their stereos for the first time, the way seminal classics such as "Touch Me" and "New York Groove" (Ace Frehley, not Hello) shaped him. His quest for that perfect sound even led him briefly behind the drumkit - in 2000, he was tabbed as the drummer for the New York City-based Longwave, a band that specialized in overt pop melody with an infusion of guitar atmospherics - think Echo and the Bunnymen meeting Pink Floyd. But by early 2004, he decided to return to Rochester and walk along a different musical path. Bottom line: this record simply makes you want to get up and dance! From the Dylan-sings-Clash stampede "Walk Right Out", to the soothing, Badfinger-inspired "Out Of Nowhere", to the frenetic dreaminess of "Colors Of The World" it's everything that good-time pop music should be. The healthy mix of Eno stomp, "People (Movin' On)", shameless bravado, "You Can't Stop Me Now", and soaring anthem, "(You're Not) The Only One", all serve the underlying message - get the ass moving, and the mind and spirit will soon follow. What does the future hold for The Mercies? A desire to present their music in any number of different formats, and an innate need to push the boundaries of power pop, lend themselves to numerous possibilities. Collaborations with Ric Ocasek? Grandiose, Spector-like productions? Stax-Volt horn accents? As long as The Mercies remain committed to rediscovering all that is great in pop music, anything can happen. -Mehul Parekh
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