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Daily MPfree: Common Prayer

Snipe Staff | Thursday 8 July, 2010 16:49

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Common Prayer is the new side project from Jason Russo, formerly of Mercury Rev. But unlike Mercury Rev’s psychedelic grandiloquence, this is a thrillingly ramshackle affair. Escaping the cultural branding of his native Brooklyn, Russo decamped to the home of Truck Festival – Steventon in fair Oxfordshire – to record Common Prayer’s debut, “There Is A Mountain”. Here’s one of the first cuts from the album – a delightfully shonky bar jam of forlorn optimism, not dissimilar to a bourbon-mellowed Walkmen, and complete with a lovely tinkly piano and whistle-a-thon ending.

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