Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
Kingston Technology 2GB SD Secure Digital Card
Braun Oral-B EB17-8 Refill Pack
|
|
|
|
Snowflake Midnight | 
 enlarge | Artist: Mercury Rev
Label: V2 Coop
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
Buy New: £6.98
You Save: £7.01 (50%)
New (17) Used (2) from £6.98
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 707
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
EAN: 5033197512723
ASIN: B001C4Z6IO
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Snowflake In A Hot World | | • | Butterfly's Wing | | • | Senses On Fire | | • | People Are So Unpredictable (There's No Bliss Like Home) | | • | October Sunshine | | • | Runaway Raindrop | | • | Dream Of A Young Girl As A Flower | | • | Faraway From Cars | | • | Squirrel And I (Holding On And Then Letting Go) |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
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
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Ice and Fire November 1, 2008
The Wolf (uk)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Definitely a Grower October 24, 2008
L. N. Nixon (uk)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The negative reviews elsewhere strike me as misguided. This album unfolds like a book, taking you through textures and sounds. The usual elliptical lyrics drop in and out and it manages the odd echo of the previous trio of their albums without ever sounding like a copy. It's certainly demanding and doesn't lend itself easily to being background music. But it does have the capacity to keep surprising you. I don't know how many times I'd been through it before the bizarre drumming and the strange elements that make up Dream of a Young Girl as a Flower' finally struck me. That track is like an exercise in throwing everything that shouldn't be in one song together and still coming up with a beautiful and strange concoction. If Mercury Rev came your way because you took Deserters Songs as a great piece of Americana, avoid this. If you see them as fearless sonic pioneers with a love of psychedelia and pushing the envelope on strange sounds, definitely investigate this.
Consider This Only Half the Experience October 23, 2008
The Psychedelic Goth (UK)
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 charm, and therefore lost me. However I got the free accompanying mp3 Strange Attractor from Mrev's website, and I absolutely love that. I think they shot themselves in the foot a little by not making it just one album though, because in my opinion you really need to play them together to get the whole experience. And taken as one it might appeal to FSoL / Amorphous Androgynous fans, as it's far deeper into ambient psych then their previous offerings, and because that's my area personally I find it glorious! This isn't a return to previous form, this is evolution. The 5 stars are for both parts though. If you have this I strongly urge you to get Strange Attractor, else it's just incomplete.
Yet more great stuff from the Revsters. October 29, 2008
J. P. Oley (Salt Town, Budleigh. England.)
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 astounding and amazing record - but comparing the two is a bit like asking which is the more beautiful; the night sky or sunrise?
amazing November 4, 2008
Ms. A. Parsons (uk)
i loved this album. from the first listen i was transported to another world and gladly let rev take the reins.
i would suggest listening on an ipod as the music is definately better with full focus not just background noise.
mercury rev are a band with an individual sound, fantastic!
|
|
|
| |
