Not so much a band as a sweet odyssey to the center of the heart, Mercury Rev formed in Buffalo, N.Y., in the late 1980’s – consistently and creatively producing cerebral, sometimes darkly atmospheric indie rock ever since then. Relying on orchestrations of guitars, clarinets, drums, and Jonathan Donahue’s breathy, Dylan-inspired melodic rambling – Mercury Rev stretch spatial arrangements into hyper-melodic, neo-psychedelic free-form. A groundbreaking band, further refining their art from Deserter’s Songs with the current album The Secret Migration – a masterful, beautiful collage of dream pop, space rock, americana, and alternative rock.