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1 October 2026 – mercury Lets a Missing Goat Haunt Her New Single Roar Of The Heliac Goat
By Editorial Team - October 1, 2026
Summary
Nashville artist mercury (Maddie Kerr) teams with producer Alex Farrar for Roar Of The Heliac Goat, pairing fuzzy guitars with surreal video visuals.
Key Facts
- Nashville artist mercury (Maddie Kerr) returns with 'Roar Of The Heliac Goat'.
- Produced by Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman), fusing shoegaze fuzz and raw lyrics.
- Features a surreal music video directed by Eliot Lee exploring neurosis via a missing goat.
- Entities: mercury, Maddie Kerr, Roar Of The Heliac Goat, Alex Farrar, Eliot Lee, Nashville, holywtr
- Tags: mercury, maddie-kerr, roar-of-the-heliac-goat, alex-farrar, nashville-indie, indie-rock, shoegaze
Nashville indie-rock artist mercury, the recording project of Maddie Kerr, has returned with the wonderfully titled "Roar Of The Heliac Goat," produced by longtime collaborator Alex Farrar. Farrar's work with Wednesday, MJ Lenderman and Merce Lemon makes him an especially logical partner for Kerr's mixture of distorted guitar haze and emotionally exposed songwriting.
The new single picks up after last year's "Heaven," with Kerr's voice floating through a dense guitar arrangement while the lyric examines pain that does not disappear so much as become incorporated into the person carrying it. The accompanying Eliot Lee-directed video translates that feeling into something considerably stranger, placing Kerr inside a fever-dream of guilt and neurosis centred on a missing goat. Indie rock has produced many metaphors for psychological distress; misplaced livestock is at least refreshingly underused.
The release arrives while mercury is touring North America with holywtr, with dates continuing through November and more new music promised before the end of 2026. That combination of touring and fresh material suggests "Roar Of The Heliac Goat" is the beginning of a larger phase rather than a standalone curiosity. Kerr's catalogue has increasingly found beauty inside distortion, and this single pushes that contrast particularly hard. The goat, regrettably, remains emotionally unavailable for comment.