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Taking their blues cabaret to stadium proportioned sound, The Religion embodies a heaving frame of influences - a vast array from 70’s prog masterpieces, jangled pop gems, gypsy-choral blues, latin-fusion and troubadour-influenced piano requiems. ....Frontman & lead songwriter Joe Kelly edges along the fringe of genius & sanity when possessed behind a piano - the effect of his performance is hypnotizing with it’s intensity. It is pure passion that transcends the music from the grounds of influence where it was birthed - and with a band of musicians that are unafraid to step into the unknown - flings The Religion far ahead of their time. ....Their debut LP ‘Seas of Mercury’ - recorded in their hometown of Sydney, Australia - comprises of 10 tracks that span spaces between darkened seaside villages and greasy southern caberet-clubs... and stories that are weaved between unrequited vaudevillian love, burning internal confinement, sweetly knitted love-letters, mystical encounters,