Mercury Trip Move with Sunshine, the Hereford Trio's Only Studio Recording so Far
One Single, Two Rehearsal Videos and a Run of West Midlands Shows Since 2023
Mercury Trip have one song in their released catalogue: Sunshine, out on 10 July 2025. It is the only studio recording the Hereford three-piece has put on streaming services. Fifteen months later it is still the single entry in their discography. Everything the band says about its sound has to be heard in that one song.
Mercury Trip’s debut single is in the playlist below. The Mercury Trip profile gathers everything written about the band so far. Sunshine came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play, then read the catalogue story below.
Sunshine Took Mercury Trip From Rehearsal Room Videos to a Studio Single Produced by Corin Myatt
Before Sunshine, the recorded trail was short. The band’s YouTube channel holds two rehearsal videos from June 2023. Isolation is the longer of them, at just under four minutes. Besides those, the band has played a run of shows across Hereford and the West Midlands. It has archived them on Instagram year by year, from 2023 highlights to the 2025 dates.
Then the studio single changed the format. Corin Myatt produced it, and the credits read like a group effort. Mairead McVeigh wrote the words and the arrangement. The music credit is shared with Ben Davies, Tom Rees and Alex Bayross. Mercury Trip released it independently, with no label line beyond their own name.
A Weather-Warning Rollout, a Free Bandcamp Download and a Hollow-Body Guitar
The rollout had a sense of humour. A few days before the release, the band’s Facebook page announced Sunshine as a weather warning, due that Thursday. A pre-save link came with it. The track then went up on Bandcamp as a free download in 24-bit audio. The band tagged it alternative, blues, indie, jazz, rock and unsigned, and added Hereford and Herefordshire for anyone searching locally.
Above all, the sound starts from the line-up. The band builds its songs on a hollow-body guitar and a heavy bass, with the frontwoman’s voice on top. Its own blues and jazz tags point to the playing underneath. Sunshine sets that sound against a summer subject. The song looks back at a warm season while waiting for someone to come back. It reads as wistful as much as bright.
Mercury Trip and Sunshine Add to a Hereford Guitar Band History That Includes The Pretenders
Hereford has been here before. In 1978 three Hereford musicians, James Honeyman-Scott, Pete Farndon and Martin Chambers, formed The Pretenders with Chrissie Hynde out front. Their self-titled debut album went to number one in Britain in 1980. Mercury Trip are a much newer name from the same city. The shape is familiar, though: a Hereford guitar band built around a woman’s voice.
However, the band’s own reference point is closer to this century. Their booking profile points to a Yeah Yeah Yeahs type blend. That New York trio, fronted by Karen O, made their name without a bass player at all. Mercury Trip keep the trio format but go the other way, with a heavy bass at the centre.
Who Sunshine Is For and What the Mercury Trip Catalogue Holds Next
The through-line is the description the band has used since its first uploads. Melancholic and energetic was how the channel introduced the 2023 rehearsals, and it still fits a summer single about waiting. In a catalogue of one, that consistency matters. It is the clearest sign of what the next release is likely to hold. The band’s singer also plays stripped-back solo sets. The finger-picking there is percussive and owes much to the late John Martyn, a quieter side of the same songwriting.
The natural audience is in Britain. It follows indie pop, indie rock and classic power pop, and it cares how a guitar and an amp sound together. In addition, curators who build playlists by mood will find a use for it. A song about a summer that has passed holds up well into the autumn.
The route in is simple. First, stream Sunshine. Then pick up the free download from Bandcamp and watch the band’s channels for the second entry.
RockCharts.News’s curator team:
“Sunshine is a debut that knows its length. It runs two minutes and twenty-three seconds, with a guitar sound that has some age on it and a lyric that waits rather than chases. That leaves room for a second entry.”
Follow Mercury Trip on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Bandcamp, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Stream Sunshine on Tidal or every other service.
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