{"product_id":"mercury-blues-skullduggery","title":"Mercury Blues (Skullduggery)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShiva Burlesque\u003c\/strong\u003e released a pair of vivid, multi-faceted albums: \u003cem\u003eShiva Burlesque\u003c\/em\u003e (1987) with drummer Joey Peters and bassist James Brenner; followed by \u003cem\u003eMercury Blues\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), again with Peters on drums, Paul Kimble replacing Brenner, and featuring cellist Greg Adamson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the two albums, the songwriting output by Jeff Clark and Grant Lee Phillips elevated into high gear, and the band recorded a number of new songs in demo versions, mostly on a home studio eight-track cassette machine with Paul Kimble engineering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWork began on the \u003cem\u003eMercury Blues\u003c\/em\u003e album proper in early summer of 1990, tracking (largely after-hours during \"down time\") at Village Recorders, one of the best-equipped, finest-sounding studios in Los Angeles at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with the intense and potent results of those sessions, IPR's beautiful, remastered, 2021 reissue includes a bonus album of ten of the demo songs, none of which have ever been previously released.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUncut Magazine editor Allan Jones lauded the release as \"...timeless, brilliant music\". Drawing comparisons to everything from John Cale to Echo \u0026amp; the Bunnymen to early Leonard Cohen, and described by All Music Guide as \"...a powerful and graceful band too post-punk to be folk rock, and too folk to be post-punk\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independent Project","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2.","offer_id":50395769241931,"sku":"2148750","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50395769438539,"sku":"2148751","price":64.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/20d012a7-c7ed-449b-b3a8-28b3ad9c731a_c951c3d9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726471642","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/mercury-blues-skullduggery","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}