CULTURE

The Haunting Power of Mercury Rev's 'Delta Sweete Revisited'

Despite vocal embellishments from the likes of Vashti Bunyan and Hope Sandoval, this reimagining of Bobbie Gentry's 1968 album fails to replicate the original's best characteristics, but still presents an intriguing second look at a forgotten gem.

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Throughout the eleven tracks on Mercury Rev's Delta Sweete Revisited, you can almost feel dust swirl and hear boards creak. The album is a veritable haunted house, an amalgamation of memories and ghosts escaped from the attics of the past; and yet its existence is definitively a product of the modern era, when a single email can bring artists together, and when vocals can be recorded in one city and bounced to another in an instant.

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