Title: Snowflake Midnight
Artist: Mercury Rev
Label: Yep Roc Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 634457219120
Genre: Alternative Rock

Swirling atmospherics and mantra-like lyrics abound on Mercury Rev's Snowflake Midnight. Recorded almost exclusively in the band's Catskills, N.Y. laboratory, Snowflake Midnight sees MR continue experiments with laser harps, ad-hoc computer programs and random note generators resulting in a record that moves with grace between avant garde and traditional pop sensibilities. Standout tracks "Butterfly's Wing" and "Senses on Fire" exhibit the emphasis on letting the music define itself, as free as possible from human interference. Zooming in at nearly any magnification, Snowflake Midnight appears to be a resplendent fractal folding in upon itself, into something continually new, unpredictable and spontaneous, and yet so subtly self-aware, that it never fails to resemble itself as a whole.

Tracks:
1.1 Snowflake in a Hot World
1.2 Butterfly's Wing
1.3 Senses on Fire
1.4 People Are So Unpredictable
1.5 October Sunshine
1.6 Runaway Raindrop
1.7 Dream of a Young Girl As a Flower
1.8 Faraway from Cars
1.9 Squirrel and I (Holding on... And Then Letting Go)

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Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight

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