# Snowflake Midnight
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{{Infobox album
| name = Snowflake Midnight
| type = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist = [Mercury Rev](/source/Mercury_Rev)
| cover = Snowflake Midnight - Mercury Rev.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 29, 2008
| recorded = [Catskill Mountains](/source/Catskill_Mountains)
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [Alternative rock](/source/Alternative_rock), [electronica](/source/electronica)
| length = 41:29
| label = [V2](/source/V2_Records)
[Yep Roc](/source/Yep_Roc_Records)
| producer = [Dave Fridmann](/source/Dave_Fridmann), [Mercury Rev](/source/Mercury_Rev)
| prev_title = [The Secret Migration](/source/The_Secret_Migration)
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = [The Light in You](/source/The_Light_in_You)
| next_year = 2015
}}{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/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](/source/The_Guardian)''|rev3Score= {{Rating|5|5}} [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/26/popandrock8 link]
|rev4=''[The Independent](/source/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](/source/Pitchfork_(website))'' |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](/source/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](/source/Mercury_Rev). It was released on September 29, 2008 in the UK, and September 30 in the US.[[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 }}]
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](/source/Fujiya_%26_Miyagi) Remix)
# "Senses on Fire" ([James Holden](/source/James_Holden_(producer)) 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](/source/Jonathan_Donahue) – performing, recording, mixing
* [Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak](/source/Grasshopper_(musician)) – performing, recording, mixing
* Jeff Mercel – performing, recording, mixing
;Additional musicians
* Carlos Anthony Molina – additional bass guitar
* Jason Miranda – additional drums
;Production
* [Dave Fridmann](/source/Dave_Fridmann) – producer, mixing
* Scott Hull – mastering
* Scott Petito – additional engineering
* Frank Moscowitz – additional engineering
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Mercury Rev}}
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Category:Mercury Rev albums
Category:2008 albums
Category:Albums free for download by copyright owner
Category:Albums produced by Dave Fridmann
Category:V2 Records albums
Category:Yep Roc Records albums
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