Snowflake Midnight
Studio album by
Mercury Rev
ReleasedSeptember 29, 2008
RecordedCatskill Mountains
GenreAlternative rock, electronica
Length41:29
LabelV2
Yep Roc
ProducerDave Fridmann, Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev chronology
The Secret Migration
(2005)		 Snowflake Midnight
(2008)		 The Light in You
(2015)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Culturedeluxe7/10 link
The Guardian link
The Independent link
Pitchfork Media6.3/10 link
Planet Sound5/10
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.

Track listing

Snowflake Midnight

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

  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

Singles

  • Senses on Fire / Butterfly's Wing (Remixes) (October 27, 2008)
  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

  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

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