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  • Audio CD (29 Sep 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: V2 Coop
  • ASIN: B001C4Z6IO
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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Seven albums in, and Mercury Rev are again on the move. Snowflake Midnight finds New York’s veteran sonic explorers downing the tools that resulted in 2005’s disappointing The Secret Migration and discovering a whole new, largely electronic palette: computers and synthesisers, sequencers and vocoders. Which isn’t to say the Rev have entirely abandoned their familiar brand of heady, cosmic Americana: as "Snowflake in a Hot World" gusts into life on Jonathon Donohue’s optimistic, star-gazing croon, it’s clear that the themes that have long driven this band--nature and mysticism, magic and dreams--remain intact. Now, though, electronics are woven deep in their design. Often it's successful--take the gorgeous "Runaway Raindrop", shimmering electronic minimalism that recalls electronic Krautrock godheads Cluster. Elsewhere, somewhat meandering: see the overblown, seven-minute "Dream of Young Girl As a Flower", which veers unsteadily between serene drift and pounding electronica like Donohue and Grasshopper are still trying to master the instruction manual. But while it might not be a reinvention quite as stark as their panoramic, career-defining 1998 album Deserter's Songs, evolution is preferable to inertia, and seven albums in Mercury Rev are still mutating, following their muse like leaves tossed on the wind. --Louis Pattison


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Veteran space-pop-rockers Mercury Rev release their seventhstudio album, 'Snowflake Midnight', after a three-year gap since 2005's 'The Secret Migration'. They retain their nuanced and heavily-produced sound, but with a thematic focus on more worldly subjects than previous records that takes in subtler lyrical constructs and a continuation of the band's development to a more poppy sound. Mercury Rev count among their ranks legendary indie producer Dave Fridmann (on bass since their formation), who has worked with such luminaries as Low and The Flaming Lips and is on production duties here.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ice and Fire, 1 Nov 2008
By The Wolf (uk) - See all my reviews
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Further adventures from a small bright planet.

Mr Donahue and cohorts create an extraordinarily lush and vivid
soundworld for us with their new release 'Snowflake Midnight'.

These nine sumptuous tracks are almost overwhelming in their
multilayered, scintillating, numinous complexity.

Structurally and melodically epic in scope, the densely constructed
thematic and rhythmic waves at times threaten to capsize the craft.
I am wholly willing to drown, however, in music of this imaginative
impetus, originality and quality.

Opening track 'Snowflake In A Hot World' drives along at a furious pace.
Piano, percussion and hard edged guitar supporting the disembodied high floating vocal.

'Butterfly's Wing' is a curiously lilting patchwork quilt of beatbox, crashing keyboard chords
and hauntingly disembodied childrens' voices. A magic garden of sound.

'Sense On Fire', with its slowly building rhythmic pulse and cataclysmic resolution
is a simple and single-minded idea followed through with uncompromising clarity of vision.

'People Are So Unpredictable' takes us into almost ambient territory with its'
delicate tapestry of shifting synth chords. All ice and fire.

The brief instrumental 'October Sunshine' is simply sublime.

'Runnaway Raindrop', 'Faraway From Cars' (with its' ecstatic handclapping) and the quirky
'A Squirrel and I ( Holding On....and Then Letting Go )' all engage our attention, imagination
and admiration.

The glorious 'Dream Of A young Girl As A Flower' is, however, the blooming heart of
this truly wonderful album. An epic composition in every sense. So many ideas jostling
for attention without ever losing focus or coherence for a moment.

Challenging. Uplifting. Thrilling. A Quite Magnificent Achievement.

Essential.
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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Give it time, 6 Oct 2008
By FlappyLove (Scotland) - See all my reviews
Having read the generally negative reviews on this page for 'Snowflake Midnight' i felt it necessary to offer a little perspective. Mercury Rev's albums have traditionally been things that you need to spend time with and allow to grow with repeated listening (Secret Migration took me months to love).
Judging by how promptly these reviews have appeared (some even before the release date!), i fear the reviewers below have not given this work the time it deserves.
On my first couple of listens i would have agreed with what has already been said, but now, a week in, it is beginning to unfold and reveal its pleasures, the drive of 'senses on fire', the magical moments within 'A young girl as a flower', it is starting to look like something special.
Anyone well acquainted with Mercury Rev would know better than to believe what is being described by other reviewers.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars ., 19 Nov 2008
Wow, some people have given this 5 stars! Well, let me say; I'm quite pleased about that, though I won't be joining them. The crux of the matter is that for me, this record is far too ambient.

You have to applaud the band's ambition - they've left their orchestral epic period behind, and started exploring new territory; this time it's electronic and techno sounds - unfortunately though, I don't find this album stimulating in any way. It sounds very "pieced together", very inorganic, and it lacks the elements of previous records that I liked. I know The Secret Migration" got a panning by and large, but that one actually became my favourite Mercury Rev album - [hear me out...] it was a masterpiece in songwriting; damn near every tune invites you to sing along. On Snowflake Midnight, any time you think you hear a part that you can one day see yourself singing along to, the music pauses... and then changes completely - usually into non-descript ambience, and then holds that idea for... well, way too long. One thing you can say for it though: it sure is unpredictable.

Upon hearing this record I was the first to say that you can never fully appreciate a Mercury Rev album on the first listen (I hated The Secret Migration at first), but this one hasn't grown on me, and so I've decided my current judgement is the one I'm going to enter for posterity.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Snowflake Midnight
Whoops, one to avoid i'm afraid. I'm a big fan of band and after one listen it left me cold. Several subsequent listens later and i'm inclined to believe it's a career low. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. John Mcgowan

1.0 out of 5 stars one to miss...
The "Snowflake Midnight" comes with an accompanying free download, which is marginally worse than "snowflake Midnight". Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. C. RHODES

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing
i loved this album. from the first listen i was transported to another world and gladly let rev take the reins. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ms. A. Parsons

5.0 out of 5 stars Yet more great stuff from the Revsters.
More superb sounds, songs, ideas, production and loveliness from a superb band. I can't say that this is better than their last album - which also got mixed reviews but IMO is an... Read more
Published 12 months ago by J. P. Oley

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a Grower
The negative reviews elsewhere strike me as misguided. This album unfolds like a book, taking you through textures and sounds. Read more
Published 12 months ago by L. N. Nixon

5.0 out of 5 stars Consider This Only Half the Experience
I loved Deserter's Songs and All is Dream, but I couldn't get into Secret Migration at all, therefore I was quite hesitant about buying this as I too thought they had lost their... Read more
Published 12 months ago by The Psychedelic Goth

4.0 out of 5 stars Keep Listening
Don't listen too closely to the above reviews. I am also a huge M.Rev fan and was nervous about buying this release. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. R. L. Blair

2.0 out of 5 stars big let down
An extreme dissapointment from a band I've loved for years. They've gone for lush ambient sounds this time with echoey vocals on top that float aimlessly around and get nowhere... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Ben Grimm76

2.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking...
I've been a huge fan of Mercury Rev since their initial incarnation and the phenominal 'Yerself Is Steam' album. Read more
Published 13 months ago by M. Payne

3.0 out of 5 stars Second poor album in a row for once-great psych rockers
`Snowflake Midnight` is a departure from previous Mercury Rev records in that it is almost entirely dominated by electronics and glacial synths. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Demob Happy

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