Dear Mr P,
I accept the fact that I had to sacrifice a whole morning polishing your Benz for whatever it was I did wrong. But I think you're crazy to also make me write a news story telling you who I think Mercury Rev are, if they are actually going to release two Yep Roc, David Fridmann-produced albums September 30 entitled Snowflake Midnight and Strange Attractor (the latter being a companion album to Snowflake Midnight and a FREE download available to anyone on Yep Roc's Mercury Rev mailing list), and chart their forthcoming tour schedule that will take them to a number of European festivals and club dates. You see them how you want to see them... in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definition. But what I found out is that each one in Mercury Rev is a brain... and an athlete... a Jonathan Donahue... and a basket case... a Grasshopper... a princess... a Jeff Mercel... and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely, the Breakfast Burrito.
Snowflake Midnight:
1. Snowflake in a Hot World
2. Butterfly's Wings
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 for Cars
9. A Squirrel and I (Holding On...and 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
"Zooming in at any part of SNOWFLAKE MIDNIGHT, at nearly any conceivable magnification, always reveals the forces of symmetry and chaos at play, shimmering, vibrating close-ups and vistas of Life driving itself onward, bursting with patterns and mandala-like forms pushed to the brink of incredible pressures then lost in an instant... blown apart by their own majestic desire to share themselves, spirals of new momentum inter-twingling with the vastness of limitless new creation... The entire album sequence appears to be a resplendent fractal, folding in upon itself, into something continually new, unpredictable and spontaneous, and yet, paradoxically at times so subtly self-aware, never failing to resemble itself in the whole..." says the band's website.
Good. I effin' love "chaos at play!"
08.07.08 - Lausanne-Pully, Switzerland - For Noise Festival
08.09.08 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Beatday 08
08.12.08 - Kilkenny, Ireland - Kilkenny Arts Festival
08.14.08 - Kiewit-Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop 2008
08.29.08 - Inverary Argyll, Scotland - Hydro Connect Festival
09.13.08 - North Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival
09.21.08 - Monticello, NY - ATP New York 2008
10.31.08 - Cork, Ireland - Cyprus Avenue
11.01.08 - Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
11.02.08 - Dublin, Ireland - Vicar St
11.04.08 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Mandela Hall
11.05.08 - Manchester, England - Academy
11.06.08 - Leeds, England - Academy
11.07.08 - Birmingham, England - Academy
11.09.08 - Newcastle, England - Academy
11.11.08 - Brighton, England - Corn Exchange
11.12.08 - Bristol, England - Academy
11.13.08 - London, England - Shepherd's Bush Empire
11.14.08 - Oxford, England - Academy
11.16.08 - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - Den Atelier
11.17.08 - Cologne, Germany - Luxor
11.21.08 - Berlin, Germany - Lido
11.22.08 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
11.24.08 - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
11.25.08 - Paris, France - Elysée Montmartre
11.26.08 - Dijon, France - La Vapeur
11.27.08 - Barcelon, Spain - Bikini
11.28.08 - Madrid, Spain - Joy
11.29.08 - Lisbon, Portugal - Aula Magna