Mercury Rev Prep Two New Records

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:01:17

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Mercury Rev have announced their first full-length since 2005's The Secret Migration. Described as "shimmering, vibrating close-ups and vistas of Life driving itself onward" on the band's Web site, Snowflake Midnight hits stores on September 29. That's not all, though. Mercury Rev's E-mail list will also have a chance to download a free LP the same day. Dubbed Strange Attractor, the album is described as "an even subtler kind of self-organization, its own ground state of order not immediately perceived but rather felt over the course of a complete listen."

Err, okay then. In other Rev-ed up news, the band has a number of tour dates planned for the coming months, beginning with a string of festival stops in Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium and the UK.

Snowflake Midnight:

1. Snowflake in a Hot World
2. Butterfly's Wing
3. Senses on Fire
4. People Are So Unpredictable (There's No Bliss Like Home)
5. October Sunshine
6. Runaway Raindrop
7. Dream of a Young Girl as a Flower
8. Faraway From Cars
9. A Squirrel and I (Holding On... and Then Letting Go)

Strange Attractor:

1. Love Is Pure
2. Taken up Into Clouds, Changed and Rained Down
3. Pure Joie De La Solitude
4. Persistence and the Apis Mellifera
5. Fable of a Silver Moon
6. Loop Lisse, Loop
7. In My Heart, a Strange Attractor
8. Incident on Abeel Street
9. Af Den Fader Kommer Den Sol
10. Because Because Because
11. Nocturne for Norwood

Mercury Rev live:

8/7 Lausanne, Switzerland - For Noise Festival
8/9 Copenhagen, Denmark - Beatday 08
8/14 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
8/29 Argyll, Scotland - Hydro Connect Festival
9/13 North Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival
9/21 Monticello, NY - ATP New York
10/31 Cork, Ireland - Cyprus Avenue
11/1 Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
11/2 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street
11/4 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Mandela Hall
11/5 Manchester, England - Academy
11/6 Leeds, England - Academy
11/7 Birmingham, England - Academy
11/9 Newcastle, England - Academy
11/11 Brighton, England - Corn Exchange
11/12 Bristol, England - Academy
11/13 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire
11/14 Oxford, England - Academy
11/16 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Den Atelier
11/17 Cologne, Germany - Luxor
11/21 Berlin, Germany - Lido
11/22 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
11/24 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
11/25 Paris, France - Elysee Montmarte
11/26 Dijon, France - La Vapeur
11/27 Barcelona, Spain - Bikini
11/28 Madrid, Spain - Joy
11/29 Lisbon, Portugal - Aula Magna

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
06.23.08