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All Is Dream

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Released
  
August 27, 2001

Label
  
V2

Release date
  
27 August 2001

Length
  
49:45

Artist
  
Mercury Rev

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All Is Dream(2001)
  
The Secret Migration(2005)

Genres
  
Rock music, Dream pop, Chamber pop

Producers
  
Dave Fridmann, Grasshopper, Jonathan Donahue, Jeff Mercel

Nominations
  
Danish Music Award for International Album of the Year

Similar
  
Mercury Rev albums, Rock music albums

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All Is Dream is the fifth studio album by American rock band Mercury Rev. It was released in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2001, in France on August 28, 2001, and in the United States on September 11, 2001. The album's front cover features half of the 1991 painting Breakthrough Dreaming by artist and mystic Jennifer Hathaway.

Contents

Critical reception

All Is Dream received generally positive reviews from music critics. Q listed All Is Dream as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.

Track listing

All songs written by Jonathan Donahue, Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak and Jeff Mercel.

  1. "The Dark Is Rising" – 4:52
  2. "Tides of the Moon" – 5:13
  3. "Chains" – 4:22
  4. "Lincoln's Eyes" – 7:09
  5. "Nite and Fog" – 3:58
  6. "Little Rhymes" – 5:13
  7. "A Drop in Time" – 4:20
  8. "You're My Queen" – 2:33
  9. "Spiders and Flies" – 4:11
  10. "Hercules" – 7:52
Japanese bonus track
  1. "Cool Waves" – 3:10

Limited edition bonus CD-ROM

The album was also released as a limited edition featuring a CD-ROM with the following tracks:

  1. "Saw Song (Live)" (Audio track)
  2. "Hercules (Live)" (Audio track)
  3. "Little Rhymes (Live)" (Audio track)
  4. "Nite and Fog" (Video)
  5. "The Dark Is Rising" (Video)
  6. "Documentary Footage" (Video)

Personnel

  • Jonathan Donahue – words and acoustic guitar
  • Grasshopper – moth-light guitars
  • Jeff Mercel – drums and piano
  • Dave Fridmann – bass and Mellotron
  • Tony Visconti - String arrangement, Mellotron, additional orchestration
  • Mary Gavassi Fridmann - Soprano vocals
  • Justin Russo - Rhodes piano
  • Jason Russo - Electric guitar
  • Rex L White - Pedal steel
  • Suzanne Thorpe - Flute
  • Joel Eckhaus - Bowed saw
  • Bethany Crescini - Child vocals
  • Katie Fox, Amy Helm and Deb Curley - Female vocals
  • Marc Guy - French horn
  • Larry Packer - solo violin
  • Gregor Kitzis - violins
  • Sarah Adams, Martha Mooke, Laura Seaton - violas
  • Maxine Neuman - cello
  • Aaron Hurwitz - Hammond organ

    • In other media

    In his album Falling Off the Bone, comedian Todd Barry recounts the fact that, while in Manhattan on September 11, a friend of his in the crowd recognized Barry and told him, "The new Mercury Rev album is out."

    Songs

    1The Dark Is Rising4:52
    2Tides of the Moon5:13
    3Chains4:23

    References

    All Is Dream Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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