Mercyland - We Never Lost A Single GameFormed in 1985 in Athens, GA by David Barbe (Bob Mould's Sugar), Mercyland's blast of post punk was ahead of it's time. The band was nourished by a steady diet of the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, Husker Du's Metal Circus, Meat Puppets 2, Dinosaur Jr's Yr Living All Over Me, Volcano Suns, and Mission of Burma. There were few experiences as exhilarating as seeing Mercyland tear up sweaty rock clubs like Athens' own 40 Watt on a Friday night.

what does matter is that it works spectacularly in the club and had people jumping on the stage to dance at the party

and Japan) playing Romantic

even slightly idiosyncratic: dignified

The wackiness continues in Volume 3

This compilation focuses on the best of those recordings

sparkly orchestration

timba and salsa

reaching 310k views in it's first 24 hours and 1

th second album from Trees Speak

with the sequence giving the impression of an audio voyage through the producer's psyche

whenever Nakatani's annual world tour brought him through the Appalachian Mountain town

with the addition of bonus tracks included from both their split album with I Killed the Prom Queen and from the compilation albums What We've Built and True Till Death