Mercury Rev Releasing Two Albums, One For Free

The cost-free downloads keep on keeping on. This time, psychedelic pop vet Mercury Rev is on board for the giveaway with Strange Attractor, an all-instrumental companion album to their proper release Snowflake Midnight.

Both releases are due on September 30
from Yep Roc, who Mercury Rev signed with after closing out a three-album stint with V2, who, in turn, released their most critically acclaimed (and accessible) efforts Deserter's Songs, All is Dream and The Secret Migration. The free download of Strange Attractor will be offered from Mercury Rev and Yep Roc's official sites. Speaking of, according to Rev's airy prose, the double-barreled release is a fractal good time:

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...

What he said.

Photo: Mercury Rev

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