Mercury Rev: Double Plays

V2 Australia assembled a two-fer of All Is Dream from 2001 and Deserter's Songs from 1998 (yes, in reverse order), presenting a strange mirror image. The former album (Deserter's Songs) is a luxuriant, elegant ride through orchestral arrangements, expansive songwriting, and lush production while the latter's shambolic, playful, and multi-textural vibe is utterly idiosyncratic and off-kilter. For those who have neither album, this is a wondrous ride into nether-pop's accessible yet wonderfully strange sonic universe.
--Thom Jurek, All-Music Guide

Levon Helm and Garth Hudson are present on tracks from Deserter's Songs.

Tracks

1. The Dark Is Rising
2. Tides of the Moon
3. Chains
4. Lincoln's Eyes
5. Nite and Fog
6. Little Rhymes
7. A Drop in Time
8. You're My Queen
9. Spiders and Flies
10. Hercules
11. Holes
12. Tonite It Shows
13. Endlessly
14. I Collect Coins
15. Opus 40
16. Hudson Line
17. The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
18. Goddess on a Highway
19. The Funny Bird
20. Pick up If You're There
21. Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp

Mercury Rev - Double Plays - 2005 - V2 338842