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09/17/25 | [dcraley]Mercy Ties Returns With "Love All The People"
Seattle's MERCY TIES have been dormant for nearly a decade since the release of their last album Proper Corruption. Today, the band is announcing their return with Reflections and Criticisms due out March 28th courtesy of The Ghost Is Clear Records. Alongside the details and pre-order information, the band is also sharing a visualizer for the track "Love All the People." Reflections and Criticisms was engineered by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Sumac) and Chris Common (These Arms Are Snakes, The Mars Volta), and mastered by Brad Boatright (The Armed, Necrot).
Guitarist Trevor Bebee comments, "I started writing again. I really fell in love with a different process of writing, revising and layering parts on my laptop alone. I’d put songs to a click track and send them to Chris, our drummer. We ended up with a lot of material and made plans for him to fly out to the States to jam out the record. We got Mike Hanson, our old second guitarist, back on board, rehearsed for a few weeks and made a record. My main objective was to finally have a record I was proud of, but we inevitably talked about shows and here we are. I retired from competitive powerlifting last year, so the idea of playing shows and touring sounds much more fun than when lifting was my number one priority."
On the "Love All The People," vocalist Andre Sanabria adds, "During a lengthy anhedonic period I wrote 'Love All the People' as a conversation to myself. The big sad passed and the words remained in a book, expunged and forgotten. The first time I listened to what would become 'Love All The People,' those same words came back to me. I opened up the notebook and everything lined up, predetermined. The lyrics themselves are self-explanatory: we're all on borrowed time, so enjoy it while you can."
Pre-order Reflections and Criticisms HERE.
Reflections and Criticisms tracklist:
1) Preamble
2) A New Hell Everyday
3) Normative Violence
4) Survivor's Guilt
5) No Longer Human
6) Requiem
7) The Spectacle of the Scaffold
8) Giving Witness to Extinction
9) Love All the People
10) A Body in Search of a Corpse
11) Acta est Fabula, Plaudite
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Dan started Getting It Out back in 2018 as a stand alone podcast. He’s been writing for music websites for over a decade and finally decided to start his own. Now living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his wife and kids, he briefly sang for Baltimore’s Pleasant Living.
