MRCY - VOLUME 1 [Green Vinyl]

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP 
Catalogue No.: DOC354LP-C1
Barcode: 0656605165431
Release Date: 15 Nov 2024
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 MRCY are producer Barney Lister and vocalist Kojo Degraft-Johnson. Hailing from different ends of England and disparate cultures, theirs is a space of soulful self-expression that combines the timeless musical warmth and social consciousness of Marvin Gaye with the genre-melding, modern sensibility of Anderson .Paak and SAULT. “It’s like hearing a distant memory,” Barney says. “But one that speaks to where you are now.”
 MRCY first connected over Instagram in the pandemic before meeting up IRL in Brixton, where they immediately found common ground in their time spent hustling behind the scenes. Hailing from Huddersfield’s thriving soundsystem culture, Barney has established himself as one of the UK’s most in-demand producers, with collaborations ranging from Ivor Award-winning work with Obongjayar to Mercury-nominated records with Joy Crookes and Olivia Dean.
 South London-raised Kojo, meanwhile, earned his stripes in church as well as singing with equally illustrious homegrown artists like Cleo Sol and Little Simz. MRCY’s music reverberates with individual perspectives, but also reminds how those common experiences of graft, grit and abandon have always been able to bring crowds - or a new band - together through tough times.
 Debut single ‘Lorelei’ exemplifies MRCY’s method of viewing Soul through the contemporary looking glass. The album, ‘VOLUME 1’, artfully combines musical weight, commanding vocals and otherworldly touches to produce songs that feel as personal as they are deeply universal.
 For Barney and Kojo, the band is as much about putting yourself first as it is the spirit of compassion, empathy and m(e)rcy that has never felt more needed. Soul, says Barney, is “good people making music that matters.” And from the very first line of standout single ‘R.L.M.’ - “London rain on the window / I don’t care where we’re gonna go / I’m good with you” - MRCY offer a blissful respite from and an intoxicating soundtrack to the madness, the magic, of the everyday.
 LP pressed on green vinyl.

Tracklisting
R.L.M
Lorelei
Purple Canyon
Days Like This
California
Flowers In Mourning
Powerless
Seven Candles