[Cover photo credit to Joe Magistro]

Psychedelic Rock band Mercury Rev have announced new studio album Born Horses, which is due out September 6th, 2024 via Bella Union. They have recently unveiled new single “Ancient Love“, from the album. Additionally, Mercury Rev have announced news of international tour dates including an Autumn European tour and further UK shows in early 2025.

The band shares about the new track:

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.

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 (An associate of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Black Mountain poets), which the band feel are “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 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. The band clarifies, “This is not the concept of two separate people, but two parts of oneself.”