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              Glenn Mercer - Wheels in Motion
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Artist...............: Glenn Mercer
Album................: Wheels in Motion
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2007
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.0 20070715
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 65 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
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Ripped by............: The viking on 21-10-2007
Posted by............: The viking on 21-10-2007
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News Group(s)........: alt.binaries.sounds.lossless

Included.............: NFO, MD5, M3U, LOG, PAR v2, CUE
Covers...............: Front Back CD 

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                       Tracklisting
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01. (00:03:39) Glenn Mercer - Days to Come
02. (00:04:32) Glenn Mercer - Wheels in Motion
03. (00:03:11) Glenn Mercer - Morning Lights
04. (00:05:12) Glenn Mercer - Until It's Clear
05. (00:03:40) Glenn Mercer - In Real Time
06. (00:05:22) Glenn Mercer - Whatever Happened
07. (00:02:49) Glenn Mercer - Get it Back
08. (00:05:10) Glenn Mercer - Two Rights
09. (00:04:08) Glenn Mercer - Here and Gone
10. (00:05:17) Glenn Mercer - Another Last Time
11. (00:07:05) Glenn Mercer - Within You, Without You/Love You To

Playing Time.........: 00:50:06
Total Size...........: 330,33 MB

NFO generated on.....: 21-10-2007 14:38:46


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Hypnotic chord progressions, multilayered percussion, and shimmering electric 
guitars--those were all hallmarks of the sound of the late, great Feelies, New 
Jersey's seminal indie-guitar-rock band, last heard from on their 1991 swan 
song,Time For A Witness. All these elements return on Wheels in Motion, the 
long-awaited solo debut from erstwhile Feelies frontman singer-songwriter-
guitarist Glenn Mercer.
Much like Dangerous Game, this year's solo debut from the Shangri-Las' Mary 
Weiss, this disc sounds like a natural, organic extension of Mercer's strengths 
and taste without seeming like a slavish attempt to recreate the past. That 
being said, Wheels In Motion does include most of the former Feelies as 
guests, with latter-day members Stanley Demeski (drums) and Brenda 
Sauter-Barnes, more recently of Wild Carnation (bass) playing on five songs 
each.
Mercer's tasteful and subtle arrangements really shine here. So many times 
on this disc, a verse morphs into a chorus so seamlessly, with just a slight 
shift of the melody, or the chord progression, or even the percussion, most 
often supplied by another ex-Feelie, Dave Weckerman. The mix of acoustic 
and electric guitars is especially thrilling, particularly on the title track, where 
Mercer's slide work conjures up the ghost of George Harrison. Harrison's 
specter returns on the disc's finale, a medley of Within You, Without You and 
Love You To.
The vocals include some of the best of Mercer's career. There's an intimacy 
on Another Last Time that he's rarely, if ever, shown before and the song 
really benefits from the delivery. At the other end of the spectrum is the 
building intensity, both vocally and instrumentally, of Until It's Clear. Anton 
Fier, the Feelies' drummer for their 1980 debut LP Crazy Rhythms, plays on 
one song only, Whatever Happened, and it's this track that most displays the 
perpetually nervous sound of the band's early days. All the songs are strong, 
with variations in feel and tempo that make the whole disc flow very well.
After hearing a collection of songs as strong as this, one can only hope that 
we'll be hearing from Glenn Mercer a lot more often in the near future.


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