{{more footnotes needed|date=February 2015}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Snowflake Midnight | type = Album | artist = Mercury Rev | cover = Snowflake Midnight - Mercury Rev.jpg | alt = | released = September 29, 2008 | recorded = Catskill Mountains | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative rock, electronica | length = 41:29 | label = V2<br />Yep Roc | producer = Dave Fridmann, Mercury Rev | prev_title = The Secret Migration | prev_year = 2005 | next_title = The Light in You | next_year = 2015 }}{{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1416472|pure_url=yes}} link] |rev2= Culturedeluxe |rev2Score=7/10 [http://www.culturedeluxe.com/news_item.asp?id=4926 link] |rev3=''The Guardian''|rev3Score= {{Rating|5|5}} [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/26/popandrock8 link] |rev4=''The Independent''|rev4Score= {{Rating|5|5}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20081205165430/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-mercury-rev-snowflake-midnight-v2-943387.html link] |rev5=''Pitchfork'' |rev5Score=6.3/10 [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007092627/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145917-mercury-rev-snowflake-midnight link] |rev6=''Planet Sound'' |rev6Score=5/10 |rev7= Twisted Ear|rev7Score= {{Rating|4.5|5}} [http://www.twistedear.com/index.php/Albums/Mercury-Rev-Snowflake-Midnight.html 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.<ref>[http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5384 Yep Roc Records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716090313/http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5384 |date=2011-07-16 }}</ref>
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. # "Snowflake in a Hot World" – 3:58 # "Butterfly's Wing" – 4:06 # "Senses on Fire" – 3:30 # "People are So Unpredictable (There's No Bliss Like Home)" – 6:40 # "October Sunshine" – 2:12 # "Runaway Raindrop" – 5:55 # "Dream of a Young Girl as a Flower" – 7:55 # "Faraway from Cars" – 3:19 # "A Squirrel and I (Holding On...and Then Letting Go)" – 3:54
===Singles=== * ''Senses on Fire / Butterfly's Wing (Remixes)'' (October 27, 2008) # "Senses on Fire" (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix) # "Senses on Fire" (James Holden Remix) # "Butterfly's Wing" (ISAN Alien Adoption Remix) # "Butterfly's Wing" (Carlos Anthony Molina "4 on the Flux" Mix)
===''Strange Attractor''=== # "Love Is Pure" # "Taken Up into Clouds, Changed and Rained Down" # "Pure Joie de la Solitude" # "Persistence and the Apis Mellifera" # "Fable of a Silver Moon" # "Loop Lisse, Loop" # "In My Heart, a Strange Attractor" # "Incident on Abeel Street" # "Af Den Fader Kommer Den Sol" # "Because Because Because" # "Nocturne for Norwood"
==Personnel== ;Mercury Rev * Jonathan Donahue – performing, recording, mixing * Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak – performing, recording, mixing * Jeff Mercel – performing, recording, mixing ;Additional musicians * Carlos Anthony Molina – additional bass guitar * Jason Miranda – additional drums ;Production * Dave Fridmann – producer, mixing * Scott Hull – mastering * Scott Petito – additional engineering * Frank Moscowitz – additional engineering
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