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Title: mercury rising!
Review: after neil young's first 4 or so albums a lot of people thought he had lost that marvellous sense of imagery that had coloured these early works and i for one tend to agree with this point of view.neil went on a more sonic journey.now if neil had continued on his original path would he be travelling the roadthat MERCURY REV now explore?interesting thought.ALL IS DREAM has a hell of a job to accomplish that being following up one of the truly great albums of our time the incredible DESERTERS SONGS.There are some really lovely songs here notably THE DARK IS RISING with its masterful string arrangement,NITE AND FOG,A DROP IN TIME and SPIDERS AND FLIES.occasionally the album lapses into tweeness but overall REV have succeeded in making a worthy successor to DS.Enjoyable .
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