Snowflake Midnight
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Snowflake Midnight | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
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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Culturedeluxe | 7/10 link |
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Pitchfork Media | 6.3/10 link |
Planet Sound | 5/10 |
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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.
Track listing
[edit]Snowflake Midnight
[edit]All songs written by Jonathan Donahue, Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak and Jeff Mercel.
- "Snowflake in a Hot World" – 3:58
- "Butterfly's Wing" – 4:06
- "Senses on Fire" – 3:30
- "People are So Unpredictable (There's No Bliss Like Home)" – 6:40
- "October Sunshine" – 2:12
- "Runaway Raindrop" – 5:55
- "Dream of a Young Girl as a Flower" – 7:55
- "Faraway from Cars" – 3:19
- "A Squirrel and I (Holding On...and Then Letting Go)" – 3:54
Singles
[edit]- Senses on Fire / Butterfly's Wing (Remixes) (October 27, 2008)
- "Senses on Fire" (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)
- "Senses on Fire" (James Holden Remix)
- "Butterfly's Wing" (ISAN Alien Adoption Remix)
- "Butterfly's Wing" (Carlos Anthony Molina "4 on the Flux" Mix)
Strange Attractor
[edit]- "Love Is Pure"
- "Taken Up into Clouds, Changed and Rained Down"
- "Pure Joie de la Solitude"
- "Persistence and the Apis Mellifera"
- "Fable of a Silver Moon"
- "Loop Lisse, Loop"
- "In My Heart, a Strange Attractor"
- "Incident on Abeel Street"
- "Af Den Fader Kommer Den Sol"
- "Because Because Because"
- "Nocturne for Norwood"
Personnel
[edit]- Jonathan Donahue
- Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak
- Dave Fridmann
- Jeff Mercel
- Carlos Anthony Molina
References
[edit]- ^ Yep Roc Records Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine