Project Mercury (album)

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Project Mercury
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 24, 2007 (2007-04-24)
Genre Post-metal, post-hardcore
Length47:29
Label Level Plane
Producer BJ McMurtie, J. Matthew Weed
Rosetta chronology
The Galilean Satellites
(2005)
Project Mercury
(2007)
Wake/Lift
(2007)
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Primitive Accumulation"Peter Bloom Balboa 2:52
2."Kaddish"BalboaBalboa9:52
3."Planet of Slums"BloomBalboa3:15
4."TMA-1"Rosetta Rosetta 10:21
5."Clavius"RosettaRosetta12:18
6."Project Mercury"Bloom, RosettaRosetta, Balboa8:51

Personnel

Rosetta
Balboa
Samples
Production
Artwork

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