Snowflake Midnight

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Snowflake Midnight
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 29, 2008
Recorded Catskill Mountains
Genre Alternative rock, electronica
Length41:29
Label V2
Yep Roc
Producer Dave Fridmann, Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev chronology
The Secret Migration
(2005)
Snowflake Midnight
(2008)
The Light in You
(2015)
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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]

Contents

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

  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

Mercury Rev
Additional musicians
Production

References