Glenn Mercer - Wheels In Motion
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Artist: Glenn MercerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Music Label: Pravda Records
Soundtracks:
- Days To Come
- Wheels In Motion
- Morning Lights
- Until It s Clear
- In Real Time
- Whatever Happened
- Get It Back
- Two Rights
- Here And Gone
- Another Last Time
- Within You, Without You/Love You To
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Free Music Review: Hasn't Missed A Beat
Hit: 5 Stars
Hypnotic chord progressions, multilayered percussion, and shimmering electric guitars--those were all hallmarks of the sound of the late, great Feelies, New Jersey's seminal indie-guitar-rock band, last heard from on their 1991 swan song,Time For A Witness. All these elements return on Wheels in Motion, the long-awaited solo debut from erstwhile Feelies frontman singer-songwriter-guitarist Glenn Mercer.
Much like Dangerous Game, this year's solo debut from the Shangri-Las' Mary Weiss, this disc sounds like a natural, organic extension of Mercer's strengths and taste without seeming like a slavish attempt to recreate the past. That being said, Wheels In Motion does include most of the former Feelies as guests, with latter-day members Stanley Demeski (drums) and Brenda Sauter-Barnes, more recently of Wild Carnation (bass) playing on five songs each.
Mercer's tasteful and subtle arrangements really shine here. So many times on this disc, a verse morphs into a chorus so seamlessly, with just a slight shift of the melody, or the chord progression, or even the percussion, most often supplied by another ex-Feelie, Dave Weckerman. The mix of acoustic and electric guitars is especially thrilling, particularly on the title track, where Mercer's slide work conjures up the ghost of George Harrison. Harrison's specter returns on the disc's finale, a medley of Within You, Without You and Love You To.
The vocals include some of the best of Mercer's career. There's an intimacy on Another Last Time that he's rarely, if ever, shown before and the song really benefits from the delivery. At the other end of the spectrum is the building intensity, both vocally and instrumentally, of Until It's Clear. Anton Fier, the Feelies' drummer for their 1980 debut LP Crazy Rhythms, plays on one song only, Whatever Happened, and it's this track that most displays the perpetually nervous sound of the band's early days. All the songs are strong, with variations in feel and tempo that make the whole disc flow very well.
After hearing a collection of songs as strong as this, one can only hope that we'll be hearing from Glenn Mercer a lot more often in the near future.
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