[Cover photo credit to Amber Schmidt]
Australian-Mexican duo Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo have shared a new track, “Song for Aurora” the latest hint at what to expect from their forthcoming album, Psychedelia in White.
“Song for Aurora” is woven from a pastiche of T-Rex lyrics with music composed by The Dirty Three’s Mick Turner, acting as a kind of homage to Marc Bolan.
Amanda describes the imagery in the lyrics to be “a perfect match for (our) psychedelic theme”.
The new album, recorded primarily in Australia and mixed in Chile by Alain Johannes, is out on 4 September 2026 on white vinyl, CD and digitally, and will be followed by a tour with Mercury Rev in UK / Europe and a headline tour in Sweden and Norway, finishing at The 100 Club in London on 4 November.
Psychedelia in White is Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo’s third album together, and the follow up to Phantasmagoria in Blue. For this album, the duo have recorded seven tracks of original material exploring some of the themes they’ve been concerned with previously, “mythology, love, hope, loss and mysticism”. But this album shows a “distinct shift in musical style” and “an overarching theme of finding a safe space within the chaos and confusion of the outside world.”
Included within the duo’s original material on the new album are three reinterpretations: a newly recorded version of PJ Harvey’s “Slow-Motion-Movie-Star”, a track that Mick had previously recorded for his 2007 album, Two of Diamonds, plus translations by Mick and Amanda of Silvio Rodríguez’s “Sueño Con Serpientes” (“Dream of Serpents”) and José Maria Cano / Mecano’s “Bride of the Sea”.
Amanda Acevedo met Mick Harvey several years ago in Mexico City while Harvey was on tour with P.J. Harvey, but it wasn’t until 2021 that their current project came to life. In the five years since their original meeting, they have released two albums, toured extensively throughout Europe and Australia and have embarked on quite a songwriting journey.
MERCURY REV SUPPORT TOUR
14 Oct – Vicar Street – Dublin (Ireland)
15 Oct – Queen Margaret Union – Glasgow (UK)
16 Oct – 02 Ritz – Manchester (UK)
17 Oct – Hackney Church – London (UK)
19 Oct – TivoliVredenburg Pandora Hall – Utrecht (NL)
20 Oct – Cultuurcentrum Hasselt – Hasselt (NL)
21 Oct – Stadsschouwburg Leuven – Leuven (BE)
22 Oct – Le Trianon – Paris (FR)
24 Oct – Stadsschouwburg Brugge – Bruges (BE)
26 Oct – DR Koncerthuset Studie 2 – Copenhagen (DK)
MICK HARVEY & AMANDA ACEVEDO HEADLINE TOUR
27 Oct – Kulturkvarteret, Kristianstad (SE)
28 Oct – Medley, Malmo (SE)
29 Oct – Debaser Nova, Stockholm (SE)
30 Oct – Dokkuset, Trondheim (NO)
31 Oct – MIR, Oslo (NO)
2 Nov – URO Haugar, Tønsberg (NO)
3 Nov – Lille Ole Bull, Bergen (NO)
4 Nov – The 100 Club, London (UK)
