Mercury Dime

“Mercury Dime has single-handedly led beauty back to pop music … Instead of sounding like a record company product, which most pop music suffers from these days, “Darkling” envelops more like a novel, first warm and inviting but up to darker matters after repeat listens … This is ear candy.” --- Mark Guarino, Chicago Daily Herald****************************************************** *******************“Lead singer and songwriter Cliff Retallick belts these songs with authority and his piano skills are formidable indeed, but its really his lyrics that are his finest work. Retallick is a master lyricist, capable of infusing bleak realities with humor and irony.” --- Greg Corrao, CMJ********************************************************* ******************“Excuse me if I repeat myself, but here we find ourselves in front of a first choice songwriter and instrumentalist on the level of Nicky Hopkins … He is a genius on the keyboard.”************************************************ ***************** --- Marco Verdi, Buscadero, Milan, Italy**************************************“Cliff Retallick’s generally exquisite lyrics come across more oblique and overtly poetic than typical for this genre of music (alt. country), often evoking politics as images in the throes of word play (“You’ve got AWACS in your haystacks”) or as pure fantasy in the enchanting “Robert Kennedy works in the airport”. Mercury Dime sounds ready to step to the top of the class.”*************************************************** ****************** --- Art Menius, The Independent, Chapel Hill***********************************“Retallick lures you into his strange and cosmic world.”***************************** --- Rick Cornel, No Depression**********************************************“T he strong lyrical eloquence of main writer Cliff Retallick is underscored by sophisticated arrangements … A real gem.”************************************************** --- Relix******************************************************* *********“Like the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, I found myself transported by Darkling into a strange, new and delirious manner --- Please sign me up for the Mercury Dime frequent flyer program.” --- Chris Stamey (the dBs, producer: Whiskeytown, Le Tigre)