Gathering Mercury is the eleventh studio album by Colin Hay, released on 9 May 2011, on Compass Records.

[1] Regarding the album's thematic content, Hay said, "I think it’s about life and loss and the injustice of the way the universe is set up; how we lose people we love.

On the album's release, Hay noted, "The loss of my father last year brought an unavoidable emotional contingent to writing and recording.

I don’t have a definitive belief in an afterlife, but I do feel like I had his help when I was working on this album, especially alone late at night, in the studio.

Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album a positive review, writing, "Although it’s a full production with electric guitars, pianos, backing voices, and drums, it leaves the impression of an intimate acoustic performance, partially because the songs are so casually lyrical in their description of the everyday.