"Philly's own half performance art half sci fi punk rock band"
The Blue Eyed Model
(fric-025/lujo-039)
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The long awaited new album "The Blue Eyed Model" will be available
at shows starting September 9th and will be in stores in early 2006.
This is a co-release with lujo records.
Here's an MP3 of the title track.
The story of Gregor, a young collegiate with a penchant for making his own coed out of the leftovers of his blind dates. The album features expeditious punk/instrumental songs that illuminate the narrative. The album is a continuation of Mercury Radio Theaterıs ³The Death and Life of the Undead Boy² which they released in 2003, to both critical and fanatical praise. The Blue Eyed Model features 19 tracks of blazing punk/instro compositions, 24 pages of original artwork by underground artist Becky Havens, and a remarkable narrative performance by cult legend Otto Bot (Vocalist for Blaster The Rocketman).
In a smoke filled rock club in old city Philadelphia, there's a crowd
of kids mulling around waiting for the next band to start. A night
filled with bands that sound just like all the others on the radio,
the crowd is bored and waiting for the headliner. Until, that is, a
booming echoing presence over the sound system tells them to pay
attention. When Mercury Radio Theater takes the stage there are solid
math rock beats accentuated by running bass lines that interplay with
melodic guitars. Altogether excluding things like scratchy throaty
singers and mundane rhythm guitars is what makes Mercury Radio Theater
different. As the show proceeds the crowd finds that there is not just
exciting instrumental music to listen to, but also a story narrated by
a creepy disembodied voice and pictures projected onto a screen
provide the visuals for the terrifying tales.
"The Blue Eyed Model" chronicles the story of Gregor, a
young collegiate with a penchant for making his own coed out of the
leftovers of his blind dates. The album features expeditious
punk/instrumental songs that illuminate the narrative. The album is a
continuation of Mercury Radio Theater's "The Death and Life of the
Undead Boy" which they released in 2003, to both critical and
fanatical praise.
mercuryradioland.com
