Yerself Is Steam
- 艺人
- Mercury Rev
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Columbia Records
- 发行时间
- 1991年05月14日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
Yerself Is Steam is the 1991 debut album by Mercury Rev. The title is a malapropism of the phrase "Your self-esteem," and is taken from a recurring lyric in the opening "Chasing a Bee." "Car Wash Hair" was released as a single to follow the album. "Very Sleepy Rivers" is supposedly about a serial killer, with the river acting as a metaphor for the killer's relative calm and sudden tendency to snap.
A music video for the song "Chasing a Bee" was shot at an abandoned infectious disease hospital that once housed "Typhoid Mary" on North Brother Island in New York City, and was directed by Jim Spring and Jens Jurgensen.
Dean Wareham made a guest appearance on "Car Wash Hair" and helped with recording, supposedly after Fridmann spent the band's advance on a holiday package.
In 2016, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 16 in its list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time," commenting that "Yerself Is Steam is really a shoegaze album in the inverse: Where their fuzz-pedaling peers obliterated the human presence in rock music through a cloud of distortion, Mercury Rev foregrounded the claustrophobic, panicky unease of being trapped inside it."
最新简评（共5条）
- @蓝，深蓝(I do not car...)：男神的品味不会错
- @oranged_7(20364874)：这张好多年前就听过了，最喜欢
- @扎扎~(网易/BC: Breat...)：~
- @梵尼亚(因为懂得，所以慈悲！)：个人认为是Mr最好的一个专辑!
- @pierr：Mercury Rev