Snowflake Midnight

Snowflake Midnight
Strange Attractor
Studio album by Mercury Rev
Released September 29, 2008
Recorded Catskill Mountains
Genre Alternative rock, Electronica
Length 41:29
Label V2
Yep Roc
Producer Dave Fridmann, Mercury Rev
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Mercury Rev chronology
The Secret Migration
(2005)		 Snowflake Midnight
(2008)

Snowflake Midnight is the seventh studio album from Mercury Rev. It was released on September 29, 2008 in the UK, and September 30 in the US.[1]

From the band's website:

“ On September 29, 2008, MERCURY REV will release their seventh studio album, SNOWFLAKE MIDNIGHT, a set of nine self-luminous and astonishing new songs. Zooming in at any part of SNOWFLAKE MIDNIGHT, at nearly any conceivable magnification, always reveals the forces of symmetry and chaos at play, shimmering, vibrating close-ups and vistas of life driving itself onward, bursting with patterns and mandala-like forms pushed to the brink of incredible pressures then lost in an instant... blown apart by their own majestic desire to share themselves, spirals of new momentum inter-twingling with the vastness of limitless new creation... The entire album sequence appears to be a resplendent fractal, folding in upon itself, into something continually new, unpredictable and spontaneous, and yet, paradoxically at times so subtly self-aware, never failing to resemble itself in the whole... ”

Made available on the same day from the band's website was a "companion" album, Strange Attractor. This eleven-track instrumental album was given away free as an MP3 download. The vinyl edition of "Snowflake Midnight" includes the "Strange Attractor" album as a bonus LP.

Contents

Snowflake Midnight

Track listing

  1. "Snowflake in a Hot World" - 3:58
  2. "Butterfly's Wing" - 4:06
  3. "Senses on Fire" - 3:30
  4. "People are So Unpredictable (There's No Bliss Like Home)" - 6:40
  5. "October Sunshine" - 2:12
  6. "Runaway Raindrop" - 5:55
  7. "Dream of a Young Girl as a Flower" - 7:55
  8. "Faraway from Cars" - 3:19
  9. "A Squirrel and I (Holding On...and Then Letting Go)" - 3:54

All songs written by Jonathan Donahue, Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak and Jeff Mercel.

Singles

  1. "Senses on Fire" (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)
  2. "Senses on Fire" (James Holden Remix)
  3. "Butterfly's Wing" (ISAN Alien Adoption Remix)
  4. "Butterfly's Wing" (Carlos Anthony Molina "4 on the Flux" Mix)

Strange Attractor

Track listing

  1. "Love Is Pure"
  2. "Taken Up into Clouds, Changed and Rained Down"
  3. "Pure Joie de la Solitude"
  4. "Persistence and the Apis Mellifera"
  5. "Fable of a Silver Moon"
  6. "Loop Lisse, Loop"
  7. "In My Heart, a Strange Attractor"
  8. "Incident on Abeel Street"
  9. "Af Den Fader Kommer Den Sol"
  10. "Because Because Because"
  11. "Nocturne for Norwood"

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Yep Roc Records
Mercury Rev
Jonathan Donahue • Grasshopper • Jeff Mercel • Dave Fridmann
Adam Snyder · Jimy Chambers · Suzanne Thorpe · David Baker
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
"Car Wash Hair" · "If You Want Me to Stay" · "The Hum is Coming from Her" · "Chasing a Bee" · "Bronx Cheer" · "Something for Joey" · "Everlasting Arm" · "Young Man's Stride" · "Goddess on a Hiway" · "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp" · "Opus 40" · "Holes" · "Goddess on a Hiway" (Re-issue) · "Nite and Fog" · "The Dark is Rising" · "Little Rhymes" · "Secret for a Song" · "In a Funny Way" · "Across Yer Ocean"
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