In the wake of the Louisville-via-Chicago post-rock explosion of the late millennium, The Mercury Program arrived, vibraphone in hand, into an amorphous "scene" in flux. "From The Vapors of Gasoline"—their 2000 album for Tiger Style—was by no means a slump, but rather ten intellectual and dissonant jams that coyly answered the never-asked question: What if New Age and post-hardcore bought a house in the suburbs? This 25th-anniversary remaster reveals the genius of an overlooked triumph in astonishingly vivid detail, offering atmospheric color for former reptilian and periodic table fans alike.
