“Elevation, don’t go to my head.” It’s a basic brainworm from a monitor off Tv’s undisputed masterpiece debut, Marquee Moon—one Frog Eyes’ Carey Mercer has had knocking round in his cranium for at the least a decade.
“As a result of it’s a Tv lyric, I’d sing, ‘Tv, it goes to my head.’ I imply, I don’t wish to steal that line—it’s a terrific line,” says the singer/guitarist for the idiosyncratic Canadian act. “However I did surprise if there’s a technique to honor it.”
The tightly wound tribute to New York Metropolis’s ’70s art-punk scene, “Tv, A Ghost In My Head” is the most recent single from Frog Eyes’ tenth album, The Open Up, accessible March 7 through Paper Bag. Nearly 25 years after effervescent up from Vancouver with a disquieting noise-rock agenda and a love-it-or-hate-it literary type that owed a substantial debt to Nick Cave, the band’s artistic fulcrum stays Mercer and his drummer spouse, Melanie Campbell. Each are fairly proud that Frog Eyes remains to be producing music that issues.
“Any dolt can put 10 nice songs collectively,” says Mercer. “However not any dolt or dunce could make 10 data—particularly within the face of business indifference. I’m a particular dolt, a outstanding dunce.”
Nonetheless, Mercer isn’t into milestones. “I’m unsure if we’ll even mark our twenty fifth anniversary in any business approach,” he says. “I feel I’d slightly make an eleventh document, push via, then pour my psychic vitality into actually pushing a ‘keep in mind when.’ However I’m very grateful that it was music that turned the context or shaper or definer of my life—at the least my working life. It’s what I do. So due to that billiard ball that despatched me careening towards this life and never another chance.”
We’re proud to premiere Frog Eyes’ “Tv, A Ghost In My Head.”
—Hobart Rowland
