Snowflake Midnight

Snowflake Midnight
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
Mercury Rev chronology

The Secret Migration
(2005)		 Snowflake Midnight
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Culturedeluxe 7/10 link
The Guardian link
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Pitchfork Media 6.3/10 link
Planet Sound 5/10
Twisted Ear link

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]

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.

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