Premiere - Hear Mercury Sky's New EP 'Infra' Right Here, Right Now

The cinematic and epic Mercury Sky are dropping their new EP 'Infra' officially tomorrow, but you can hear it right here in this very moment!

Hailing from NSW, vocalist Kay Thatch, guitarist/programmer Keiren Lovett, guitarist Cameron Davies, bassist Tom Bergman, and drummer Keiran Berry make up one hell of a band. Their music is a blend of the technicality from Dance Gavin Dance and the soaring melodies and soundscapes of Circa Survive and by God is it beautiful.

From the opening track of 'Infra', 'Sosonal' you'll feel it. The songs are massive. Mono-fucking-lithic. The production is next level and the songwriting is note-perfect. I don't want to sound like I'm gushing just because we're premiering their new EP, I'm just genuinely excited by brilliant Australian bands and these guys easily fall into that description.

I'll admit that though I was enjoying tracks like 'Nausea' and 'No True Scotsman', I was blown away by the aforementioned opener of 'Sosonal' and earth shattering 'Blue and Purple'.

But my personal favourite and one I strongly recommend is without a doubt the ethereal 'SleepDreamWake'. The atmosphere that Mercury Sky have created on this track is otherworldly. It's a gorgeous mix of reverb and delay-soaked guitars and pads that builds and builds into an epic finale. If you have only time to listen to one track from this EP then that is the fucking one.

However, I won't waste your time with my words, as we were able to get the wonderful Keiren Lovett (Guitar/Programming) to do up a track by track for the EP! His eloquent and sometimes poignant writings are well worth the read as you listen to the EP to get a better sense of what these songs mean to the ones who penned them. You can stream it in full at the embedded player down below.

Oh, if you like what you here, you can grab tickets to see them on tour here! It starts tomorrow with dates spread around until November!

 Track by Track

Sosonal

"'Sosonal' is one of those songs that just came together organically when we wrote it. We wrote it over about a month and half, jamming out ideas as they came to us. It's definitely the most collaborative song on the whole EP and to be honest, it's still quite weird for a lot of us. Musically, it almost feels like it shouldn't make sense, but yet, it does. It's also a HUGE challenge to play live. That being said, the lyrics are quite simple and talk about the influence of technology and how it gives freedom and voice to individuals that they wouldn't ordinarily have in real life. While it is a pretty outdated concept now because the song was written a few years ago, it is still so prominent as individuals feel they can say whatever they want without the justification. It's about an individual's responsibility for what they say but also a community's responsibility to hold people accountable to what is being said."

No True Scotsman

"This song is relatively difficult to explain. 'No True Scotsman' is a reference to a somewhat obscure yet quite relevant fallacy called the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. The fallacy in itself tries to protect generalised concepts by changing the definition of that concept when faced with a counter example that proves otherwise.  An example would be, "no tea drinker would ever put milk in their tea". Alternatively, if someone regularly drinks tea with milk, the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy would play a part if the response was: "no 'true' tea drinker would add milk in tea". In a false world, one could potentially disregard examples that prove contrary to an otherwise universal generalised statement and say just about anything is not true to their interpretation. Kay wanted to keep this song relatively cryptic and for the audience to decipher for themselves what he could be referring to. Also, for what it's worth, milk doesn't belong in tea!"

PreCious

"'PreCious' was actually the last song on the EP to be completed and was definitely a slow burner instrumentally. I wrote that intro riff just after our first EP in 2014 and it took a very long time for me to figure out what to do with it. Turns out all I had to do was take about six scattered ideas we'd accumulated, figure out that they actually sounded relatively cohesive and put them all together. With a little collaborative effort, it turned into something we were all happy with. This song, I feel, is the song that cemented the relationship between our drummer, Keiran Berry and our bassist, Tom Bergman. They each tried to push the envelope and while Tom was still relatively new to the band, they built a great relationship. Lyrically, it's about the sensitivity of individuals and how self-esteem seems to be prevailing over logic and reason in determining one's point of view. There is a definite trend of people being 'offended' by contrary ideas to their own and that is something we felt needed to be written about."

SleepDreamWake

"'SleepDreamWake' is, in its simplest form, a love song. Personally, it was what came about when I first started dabbling with seven string guitars. I thought was going to get some super brutal extended range filth when I first convinced myself I needed one, yet every single time I picked it up, I wrote all these clean, delay-drenched passages. I was really not sure how I felt about this other than confused but when Kay got hold of it, he wrote this incredible story of love and longing and it all seemed to make a whole lot of sense to me."

Blue and Purple

"This song is one that is very close to Kay's heart and is about the untimely passing of his brother a few years ago and the circumstances in which he was found. It's somewhat difficult to go into depths of what the lyrics describe but in a greater sense, the song also addresses the nature of death and loss in general. We actually had this song virtually completed instrumentally for number of years and had never quite found the right fit vocally to carry the music. Thus, it seemed rather fortuitous that when Kay first put his vocals down and told us what it was about, everything else fell into place. It just felt right. In sharing it, our hope is that people who have been unfortunate enough to experience the loss of someone significant in their life will be able to relate to the feelings that Kay describes."

Nausea

"'Nausea' is probably the most varied song that we have written. The song is meant to be a loose continuation of the concept of 'Blue and Purple' with notions of loss but it extends to become more about the philosophical ideas of existence. The idea that things, almost in instantaneous moments, come in and out of existence. Again, this song is very close to Kay's heart as it vaguely shows his struggle with his brothers death. Furthermore, I feel like it's definitely one of those songs where the music really evolved very concurrently to the lyrical content. There is a huge contrast in expression throughout the song, which has made it simultaneously one of our heaviest and and one of our most placid songs to date. I think that this is one of the many reasons we concluded the EP with it ."

Full Stream

Mercury Sky will also be taking in Gosford, Newcastle, Wollongong, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane from September to November for their forthcoming headline tour. If you like what you hear then don't wait, tickets available here!

Friday, September 22 – Gosford, Central Coast NSW, Born2Rock Studios (AA)

Saturday, September 23 – Newcastle NSW, Small Ballroom

Friday, Oct 6 – Sydney NSW, TBA

Saturday, Oct 7 – Canberra ACT, The Basement

Sunday, October 15 – Wollongong NSW, Rad Bar

Saturday, November 4 – Brisbane QLD, New Globe Theatre

Saturday, Nov 11 – Melbourne VIC, The Brunswick Hotel