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4.0 out of 5 stars
Get it while you can !, 2 May 2005
By A Customer
"Drenched" was a late album for miracle legion and shows a lo-fi band beefing up their sound, mostly to excellent effect.If you're coming at Miracle Legion backwards from frontman Mark Mulcahy's recent solo work, my advice is to grab anything you can get your hands on now, as it's becoming scarcer than hens' teeth. Their finest work as a band was on 1987's "Surprise Surprise Surprise", not available on cd ( Come on, Mezzotint ! Don't let it disappear )but there are vinyl copies here and there, also the album "Me and Mr Ray", which although listed as a Miracle Legion release is actually a brilliant two man project by Mulcahy and guitarist Mr Ray. "Drenched" sounds a little bit slicker than the scuffed up early stuff, but there are still some tracks on here which rate amongst their very best. Most notable are "Little Blue Light", "With a Wish" and the indescribably beautiful "Out to Play". You will most often hear two things said about Miracle Legion: that Mulcahy is Thom Yorke's favourite singer and that the band sounded like REM. Thom Yorke evidently has good taste if the former is true - Mulcahy's tangled, folky twang is equally as good essaying gentle ballads and southern rock. As for the REM thing -well, in the mid 80's, if you liked REM, you also liked Miracle Legion. You just went to much smaller venues to see them. What marked Miracle Legion apart from their peers was the romance which ran through their songs like lifeblood. Plenty of bands got the folk-art poetry right, but only Mulcahy could sing so convincingly from his lovelorn soul.
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