THE MERCURY TREE
This experimental Portland trio, formed in 2006, specialize in creative overuse of their effect pedals. Their latest material includes extensive live looping work, creating huge enveloping layers of sound. At best, they fuse the oddball rhythms and technicality of progressive music with a genuine sense of melody and emotion. Their most recent album, Freeze in Phantom Form, was released in 2012, and a new album is currently being recorded, to be released in September.
