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All Is Dream

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All Is Dream
All Is Dream

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All Is Dream

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Moody, majestic, and unpredictable,
All Is Dream
plays like
Deserter's Songs
' evil twin, polarizing that album's gently trippy, symphonic pop into paranoid and exuberant extremes that range from the eerie lullaby "Lincoln's Eyes" to the giddy show-tune-in-search-of-a-musical "A Drop in Time." Starting with the symphonic grandeur of "The Dark Is Rising," the album's ambitious, self-indulgent vibe recalls '60s and '70s psych and prog rock concept albums as well as the band's own expansive body of work. The first half of
journeys through the group's dark side with songs like the brooding "Tides of the Moon," which pits
Jonathan Donahue
's spooked, singsong vocals against appropriately unearthly theremins, glockenspiels, and organs, while the second half's "Nite and Fog" and "Little Rhymes" sound twice as sunny compared to the preceding weirdness. The contrast between the album's halves is so sharp that it seems designed for vinyl; flipping this record over would be immensely satisfying. Though nothing on
is as immediate as
' "Goddess on a Hiway" or "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp," this album may be stronger as a whole, moving gracefully from singer/songwriter ballads like the beautiful "Spiders and Flies" to guitar-driven epics like "You're My Queen" and "Hercules." An unfashionably self-indulgent and earnest album,
certainly isn't for everyone, and may not even be for some
Mercury Rev
fans, but in its own personal, insular way, it's another triumph for the band. ~ Heather Phares

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