mercury rev

speaking of which, listening now to their new instrumental alb strange attractor that i downloaded free from their website in return for signing up for their mailing list. it's as different from deserter's songs and the albs that followed as those were from yerself is steam and boces -- a hazy, hallucinatory dreamscape. the blather i've read about their _other_ new alb snowflake midnight talks about "ad hoc computer programs and random note generators," reminding one that they were proteges of lamonte young acolyte/original velvet underground participant tony conrad at suny buffalo. if the flaming lips are the new beatles, can these guys be the new pink floyd?