Mercurials - Tend The Fire [LP] no-discount and the new album proved

and the new album proved no different

voices echo as a part of the surrounding sonic environment

When you add the beautiful harmonies of these most excellent background singers

Interlude: State of Ya

and the Blackberries

Mercurials - Tend The Fire [LP] no-discount and the new album provedThey are in their thirties, meaning they are "too much too young" to have felt the vibrations of the ska revival of the late 1970s and early 1980s live, when The Specials, The Selecter, Madness and the likes of The Beat were electrifying England at a time when social tensions were running high and were getting brass missiles into the charts, hitting all of Europe. Far too young, it goes without saying, to have experienced the initial shakes of the