Deserter's Songs

Deserter's Songs
Studio album by Mercury Rev
Released	September 29, 1998
Studio	Tarbox Road Studios NRS Studios Six Hours Studios
Genre	Chamber pop[1] Americana[2]
Length	44:39
Label	V2
Producer	Dave Fridmann, Jonathan Donahue
Mercury Rev chronology
See You on the Other Side (1995) Deserter's Songs (1998) All Is Dream (2001)
Singles from Deserter's Songs
"Goddess on a Hiway" Released: November 2, 1998 "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp" Released: January 25, 1999 "Opus 40" Released: May 10, 1999 "Holes" Released: July 7, 1999 "Goddess on a Hiway" Released: August 16, 1999 (reissue)

Deserter's Songs is the fourth studio album by American rock band Mercury Rev, released in late September 1998. British music magazine NME named Deserter's Songs album of the year for 1998. Limited edition copies of the album came in a brown cardboard envelope-like package, with a stamp on the cover postmarked with the release date, as well as two art postcards.

The success of this album was a pleasant surprise for the band. After the commercial failure of their previous album See You on the Other Side, which frontman Jonathan Donahue considered to be the band's best album, they decided to make one more record entirely for themselves, ignoring commercial influences, and expecting to split up shortly afterward. Surprisingly, Deserter's Songs was their most successful album, bringing them popularity in the UK and Europe, also making a smaller mark in the US.