Mercury Rising - Ella Cowperthwaite
Diving even further under the radar (although, by no means for long), today we’re looking at the apocalyptic synth tones of Mercury Rising.
01 Hallelujah Day by bigstronglove
This local super-group consists of Reverend and the Makers Joe Moscow and Stuart Doughty and Steve Edwards of Lords of Flatbush and a handful of other musical exploits.
Check out Lords of Flatbush’s ‘999’. There’s also a fantastic Toddla T remix (another Sheffield based artist incidently) of this floating around the internet
Anyway I digress; back to the band at hand.
Mercury Rising played their debut gig at Tramlines this year (a recurring theme with these blogs… Tramlines was fantastic) and recently supported Kate Jackson, former lead singer of the Long Blondes, at her homecoming show at plug last week.
Afterglow by Mercury Rising (UK)
Is This The Start Of The End Of The World? by Mercury Rising (UK)
With there awesomely earth-shattering, biblical electronic sounds, these are definitely a band to keep an eye on.
Oh and if you were wondering where you recognise those vocals from:
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