Mercy Giants is a quartet from Utrecht in the Netherlands that formed in 1995, issued its debut album, Hotel Hell – Sports & Relax, four years later and follow-up Running In Slomo on Zabel Muziek in 2006. Seven years later, Jelle Buma, Maarten Scherrenburg, Mark Zuidema, and Bart de Kroon resurface on Tonefloat with a thirty-five-minute collection called Steel Dungeons, Mighty Foes! (available in vinyl and CD formats). The group members bring to Mercy Giants experience drawn from playing in other outfits (The Use Of Ashes, March, Demi Mazurka, Jelle Buma, Homemade Empire) as well as cited influences such as Talk Talk and Mahavishnu Orchestra. Theirs is a sonorous sound that’s easy to warm up to, especially when vocal parts give the six tracks an easy-to-digest, song-like form and the instrumental design is purely acoustic—double bass, piano, guitar, drums, and vocals, with percussion (vibes, glockenspiel) added for extra sweetening. The group’s sound presents itself as more straight-up rock than shoegaze, prog-rock, or post-rock, even if traces of each do surface.