August 17, 2023
Sky Blue Dream
Since their emergence in the early 1990s, Mercury Rev have remained at the vanguard of American alternative music. Cherry Red represents and has reissued some of their landmark discography, including 2001’s All Is Dream, which features the standout track ‘Blue Skies.’ A lush, electro-acoustic interpretation of Irving Berlin’severgreen 1926 song (also covered by Ella Fitzgerald, Willie Nelson and Thelonious Monk to name but three), it was recently used in the new Apple TVthriller series Hijack, starring Idris Elba.