V/A The Mercury Program / Maserati : The Confines of Heat

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Mercury Program was born in 1997 in Gainesville, FL. Mercury Program's 'collective sound is very much groove-oriented at the bottom, but given to loopy, spinning guitar bits, and Phillip Glassish melodic abstraction on the vibraphone and keyboard' according to pitchfork media. Maserati are a band from Athens, GA that started in 2000. 'Maserati has a huge confident sound full of spacious atmospheric guitar work grounded by a tight rhythm section and prominent, dynamic basslines' according to pitchfork media.