Pop: Mercury Rev, Academy 2, Manchester

"We had a really good night last night. And I'm not talking about the concert," begins pixie-voiced frontman Jonathan Donahue, ominously. It is tempting to think this is the beginning of another drug-addled anecdote, but it becomes apparent that the American is talking about the Obama Effect reaching the live scene. He describes phoning home and hearing the cheering, "like we'd won the best football match ever".From druggy mayhem to observing US politics is a metaphor for Mercury Rev's career. N...

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