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The Mercury Program
From The Vapor Of Gasoline
Numero Group - Cat No: NUM991lp
- updated:2025-10-10
Numero Group continues its reissue series of turn-of-the-millennium post-rock from the US label Tiger Style. Their debut album, released in 2000. A classic that hasn't aged a day. Black vinyl.
Track List
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A1. The Sea Is In Here
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A2. Highways Like Veins
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A3. Re-inventing A Challenge For Machines
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A4. Leaving Capitol City For Good
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A5. Nazca Lines Of Peru
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B1. Every Particle Of The Atmosphere
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B2. From The Vapor Of Gasoline
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B3. Fastest Way Through The South
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B4. Down On Your Old Lung
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B5. The Vortex East
In the wake of the Louisville-via-Chicago late-millennium, post-rock explosion, Mercury Program arrived at an amorphous “scene” in transition, vibraphone in hand. From The Vapors of Gasoline—their 2000 album for Tiger Style—was hardly a sophomore slump, it’s ten cerebral and dissonant jams coyly answering the never-asked query: What if new age and post-hardcore bought a house in the suburbs? This 25th anniversary remaster reveals the genius of an overlooked triumph in startlingly vibrant detail, providing atmospheric color for erstwhile reptile and periodic table fans alike.
The Mercury Program, a Boston band that started out under the influence of the DC post-hardcore scene before shifting toward a style closer to Chicago post-rock. Their second album, released in 2000 and long commanding high prices on the used market, is reissued by NUMERO GROUP 25 years on. Emotional guitar, vibraphone, aggressive math-rock-leaning drums and bass. They became an instrumental band after this record, but here there are still tracks with restrained vocals. (Saito)
"After post-rock exploded out of Louisville by way of Chicago, The Mercury Program arrived, vibraphone in hand, at a fast-shifting, shapeless 'scene.' Released on Tiger Style in 2000, The Vapors of Gasoline is no sophomore slump: ten cerebral, dissonant jams that quietly answer a question no one ever asked—what if new age and post-hardcore bought a house in the suburbs? This 25th anniversary remaster reveals the genius of an overlooked masterpiece in stunningly vivid detail."