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Snowflake Midnight by: Mercury Rev List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.98 You Save: £7.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5033197512723 Label: V2 Coop Manufacturer: V2 Coop Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: V2 Coop Release Date: September 29, 2008 Studio: V2 Coop Sales Rank: 524 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: 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
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 Rating:  - .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 ... Read More: Rating:  - amazingi 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! Rating: - Ice and FireFurther 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 ... Read More: Rating: - 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 astounding and amazing record - but comparing the two is a bit like asking which is the more beautiful; the night sky or sunrise? Rating: - Definitely a GrowerThe 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 ... Read More: |
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