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Mary Gauthier (pronounced Go-shay) has had a life long love affair with darkness. Her autobiography is balanced between the straight world and bouts of addiction and homelessness. In the late '90s she got sober and discovered music, more particularly songwriting, and since then she's carved out her own niche of sinister country music with sparse, brittle, driven songs that put listeners face to face with raw, scary human emotion. Her last two albums, Drag Queens In Limousines and Filth And Fire, heaped up critical superlatives and led to a major label deal. Mercy Now is even more sparse and moody than her previous work. Gauthier's voice is a weary instrument that comes from a place where despair and belief achieve an uneasy state of grace, and producer Gurf Morlix has stripped away everything that interferes with the power of that voice. Quiet acoustic guitars and sepulchral organ fills compliment Gauthier's words, often spoken as much as sung. "I Drink" confronts the comforting horror of the bottle. The cello on "Empty Spaces" accents the forlorn harmonies of Gauthier and guest artist Patty Griffin, and the title tune offers a benediction for everyone struggling against the darkness, from the President to the homeless man on the corner.
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