JINDER press quotes...
"For fans of the classic British singer-songwriter this album will be a real boon – a genuinely talented and expressive modern version of the same.These are beautiful songs, filled with passion and expression, and delivered with great promise."
- Americana UK (online)
"Nine Cents From Benelux, the new album from hypnotic troubadour Jinder, is well worth discovering"
- Maverick Magazine
"Pure red-dirt Americana and sweet nostalgia...a very persuasive troubadour"
- Rock'n'Reel Magazine
"Nine Cents From Benelux looks back over ten years of Jinder's musical life. This autobiographical album is a return to roots for this song writer, who spent the past year fronting The Mercury Men. Mature, rounded and earthy...there's really not a bad song on the whole LP."
- The Mag (online)
"So darned good!"
- The Daily Mail
“Jinder returns with a new album...it sounds wonderful and is wonderful. He’s a great talent and don’t let him tell you otherwise...an album by a man going places.”
- Cambridge & Beyond (online)
“An exploration of the iconography of Americana. Lyrically and musically it is exceptionally visual – images of ‘Paris Texas’ and Steinbeck novels come to mind in a land where “lonesome rivers flow” and solace is found in a “cheap jug of wine”” 8/10
- BH One (online)
“Imagine Ryan Adams soaked in cider playing Lightning Hopkins”
- Flyin’ Shoes Review (online)
“Superb sophomore effort that delivers country-come-americana that’s as good as it gets…
This is one of the best Americana-come-Country albums I’ve heard this year. It’s an album you could play forever, and the only thing that would get tired of it would be your repeat button.”
- Maverick Magazine
”Colder and lonelier than a factory gate security guard at 3am, Jinder can sometimes cut a bleak figure.
But going from icy to sunny over the course of the Willow Park album in around 40 minutes, it’s surely only a matter of time before Jinder releases his own global warming effect on the wider world. “
- Overplay.co.uk
"The harmonies are immaculate, we are all there at the start of something huge.
Much will be written about The Mercurymen for ages to come, but what will always stand out for me is the perfection of seeing the first single "Keep Me In Your Heart" performed live, and the major excitement it caused.
- XL Music News
"The obvious chemistry between Jinder, Simon Johnson and Gavin Wyatt has brought them to the notice of many; and after signing to a high profile label, the trio are likely to become deservedly more well known in 2009.
All three are accomplished guitarists, but it’s the harmonies that really mark The Mercurymen out from the pack. The quality of the material, performances and production is of the very highest standard."
- Fish Records
"WOW, the Mercurymen are awesome.
I have never seen anything like them, they are absolutely fantastic.
Their vocals are better than the Beach Boys...man are they hot!"
- Edinburgh Life
"Tipped for the top by celebrity fans including Coldplay, Brian Wilson and Ryan Adams, the trio came highly recommended and they wasted no time demonstrating why.
They joked about doing a reunion tour when they were all old and fat, but something tells me that in 30 years’ time audiences will still be flocking to see The Mercurymen, probably in venues much larger than a town centre bar.
The evidence was in the rapturous reception they received and the scrabbling of audience members to get their hands on the album, Postcards From Valonia."
- Yourmaidstone.co.uk
"For most singers who've been in a band as well as going it alone, the usual route is group first, break for solo super-stardom later. Not for single-monikered Jinder who, after notching up an impressive five albums in his own right, has now teamed up with two of his other singer mates to form The Mercurymen,
a folk/ pop / rock band who have just released their first album.
Not only that, but it's the first of a four-record deal with Sony BMG, one of the biggest labels in the world.
Get them."
- thisisleicestershire.co.uk
