For those wishing to know, their brand new album What You Stand To Lose from Mercy Music is set to release on June 30th, 2023 via Double Helix Records/SBÄM Record.

“I like to describe Mercy Music as pop hooks with guitar solos,” says Scholz. “We fall somewhere in between Superdrag, Squeeze, Samiam, Jawbreaker, and Thin Lizzy.”

As for the music itself, Scholz reveals his hopes: “I want people to know they’re not alone in whatever they’re struggling with,” he thoughtfully says, “I hope they find comfort in the record the same way I do in the records I love.” Cooper adds, “When people listen to our new album, I want them to feel happy, sad, inspired, and depressed. Then I want them to feel happy again. That last part is critically important.”

The incomparable sound and energy of the Las Vegas three-piece Rock & Roll band Mercy Music is truly like capturing lightening in a bottle, as frontman Brendan Scholz’s unmatched ability to write catchy yet soulful rock songs combined with the band’s explosive live performances make them one of the clearest and most unique voices currently performing.

Scholz, as lead singer/songwriter and guitar prodigy, helms the trio with a raw force only matched by the poignant, self-aware honesty in his songwriting.

Beginning Mercy Music originally as a solo act, Scholz brought aboard long-time collaborator and unparalleled bassist Jarred Cooper whose enthusiasm both on and off the stage brings a quality to Mercy Music that can only be described as invigorating.

Finally, balancing the band with sharp skill and precision is drummer Michael McGuinness, a talent that shines while seeming perfectly at home in the group’s ferocious sound.

Side A:
1. Suddenly
2. Love You Need You
3. REAL
4. Believe in We
5. Undone
6. Fine

Side B:
7. Watch Me Drown
8. Found Out I’m Useless
9. What’s the Use
10. Total Nightmare
11. Waiting to Begin

Putting the vinyl on the turntable, dropping the needle, and stepping back, this explosive, propulsive, yet ardently-cultured new album from the Las Vegas punks opens on the powerful Suddenly and the encouragingly upbeat Love You Need You (a song about about coming to terms with the fact that the person you’re in love with is no longer in love with you) and then we get the free-wheeling REAL, the impassioned strength of Believe in We, before the rockingly symphonic Undone is brought forth.

Flipping the vinyl over, which is still one of my most favorite things to do, along next on this riveting new musical masterpiece (which was itself titled as so by singer/guitarist Scholz, due to all the many monumental changes in his personal life) is the resiliently frenetic Fine and the melodic rocker Watch Me Drown, and they are seamlessly backed by the rhythmical foot-tapper Found Out I’m Useless, the liberated What’s the Use, the album rounding out on the unfettered rock hipsway of Total Nightmare, coming to a close on the textured acoustic balladry of Waiting to Begin.

Mercy Music - Love You/Need You [Official Music Video]

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