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===Recent activity: ''The Light in You'', ''Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited'', ''Born Horses'' (2015–present)=== Mercury Rev's first studio album in seven years, ''[[The Light in You]]'', was released on October 2, 2015, through [[Bella Union]]. It reached #39 on the UK albums chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-light-in-you-mw0002853351/credits |title=The Light in You - Mercury Rev | Credits |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=2015-10-02 |access-date=2015-12-04}}</ref> This was the first Mercury Rev album not to be co-produced by Dave Fridmann. At this point the band were officially a duo of Donahue and Grasshopper, with Molina, Miranda and Chandler still regularly contributing but as part of a set of support musicians. Although Molina and Miranda's involvement with the band had ceased by 2016, Chandler had become a full member of Mercury Rev by the time that the band released ''[[Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited]]'' in February 2019. This was a reworking of [[Bobbie Gentry]]'s 1968 album ''[[The Delta Sweete]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mercury Rev {{!}} Bella Union |url=https://bellaunion.com/artists/mercury-rev/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124409/https://bellaunion.com/artists/mercury-rev/ |archive-date=2019-02-09 |access-date=2019-02-08 |website=Bellaunion.com |language=en-US}}</ref> featuring instrumentation by Mercury Rev and a different female guest singer on each song. [[Lucinda Williams]], actress [[Carice van Houten]], [[Beth Orton]] and [[Norah Jones]] were among the vocalists. The album achieved a Top 40 position in the UK charts, peaking at #32. 2021 saw further changes to the Mercury Rev line-up, with second keyboard player Marion Genser joining the band as a full-fledged member. On June 4, 2024, Mercury Rev announced their latest studio album, ''[[Born Horses]]'', which was released on September 6, 2024. The first single from the album, “Patterns,” was also released on the day of the announcement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Corcoran |first=Nina |date=2024-06-04 |title=Mercury Rev Announce New Album Born Horses, Share Video for New Song "Patterns" |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/mercury-rev-announce-new-album-born-horses-share-video-for-new-song-patterns-watch/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mongredien |first=Phil |date=2024-09-06 |title=Mercury Rev: Born Horses review – a lush and serene return |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/06/mercury-rev-born-horses-review-a-lush-and-serene-return |access-date=2024-09-30 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> The band's line-up changed again that year, with Joe Magistro taking over on drums, and guitarist/flugelhorn player J.B. Meijers (who'd already made some band contributions in 2018) joining.
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