Grasshopper & the Golden Crickets - The Orbit of Eternal Grace

Noise, it seems, can be neither created nor destroyed, but simply transformed; with the relative lack of noise on Mercury Rev's concurrently released Deserter's Songs, the sonic dementia so long a hallmark of the band's sound had to go somewhere, and so it's instead found a home on The Orbit Of Eternal Grace, the debut solo effort from Rev guitarist Grasshopper. With guest appearances from other group mainstays like Suzanne Thorpe and Jason Russo, there's little mistaking the record's connection to the Rev aesthetic, although the abrasive acid-pop of tracks like "O Ring (Baby Talk)" and "Univac Bug Track" harks back more to early LPs like Yerself Is Steam and Boces than to the orchestral grandeur of the band's latter-day material. Read More