Label: Numero

Reissued 10/10/2025, Originally released 2000

In the wake of the Louisville-via-Chicago late- millennium, post-rock explosion, Mercury Program arrived at an amorphous “scene” in transition, vibraphone in hand. From The Vapors of Gasoline—their 2000 album for Tiger Style—was hardly a sophomore slump, it’s ten cerebral and dissonant jams coyly answering the never-asked query: 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 startlingly vibrant de- tail, providing atmospheric color for erstwhile reptile and periodic table fans alike.

Track Listing:

1. The Sea Is in Here
   
2. Highways Like Veins
   
3. Re-Inventing a Challenge for Machines
   
4. Leaving Capitol City for Good
   
5. Nazca Lines of Peru
   
6. Every Particle of the Atmosphere
   
7. From the Vapor of Gasoline
   
8. Fastest Way Through the South
   
9. Down on Your Old Lung
   
10. The Vortex East