Release & Reception
Upon Deserter’s completion, the album received some unexpected word-of-mouth promotion from Donahue’s old collaborators, The Chemical Brothers. An advance copy of the album had been sent to The Chemical Brothers, who in turn began raving to the press that Mercury Rev had created something special. Even so, the band was pleasantly surprised by the album’s immediate popularity and success, especially in Europe. Grasshopper recalled being “freaked out” when he first heard “Goddess On A Hiway” being played in a British supermarket. He remarked that “it was just insane... going from total anxiety and despair in August to a total emotional flip flop of euphoria a couple of months later .”
Donahue added: “It had the feeling of rebirth, of going down to the grave for quite a while and lying down there in the darkness and the quiet, and then someone pulls you up and shakes the dirt of you and says 'no, you thought you were dead, but you're not.'”
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