See You on the Other Side is the third studio album by American neo-psychedelia band Mercury Rev, released in the United Kingdom on May 1, 1995 by record label Beggars Banquet, then in the United States on September 19, 1995 by Work.
See You on the Other Side was the first Mercury Rev album to be recorded following the departure of frontman David Baker, with band member Jonathan Donahue taking over lead vocal duties. It also marks a transition between the earlier, noisier sound of their first two releases to the more orchestrated, soft and lush arrangements the band would embrace on subsequent albums.[1][2]
The album cover is taken from a 1975 7 Up commercial entitled "Uncola".[3] The album's back cover is a photograph of Donahue despondently loading a revolver.
The video for "Young Man's Stride" was directed by Moby.
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Heather Phares described See You on the Other Side as "an album very much in the group's expansive, experimental tradition, yet distinct from its work with Baker", noting that "without Baker's merry prankster vocals, the album feels a bit unbalanced, as though the group was still adjusting to making music without him when the album was recorded." She nonetheless found Donahue a capable vocalist, "swinging the group toward its gently whimsical side", and concluded that the record "pointed the way toward Mercury Rev's breakthrough with Deserter's Songs, and is a completely charming – if underrated – album in its own right."[1]
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