All Is Dream

2001 studio album by Mercury Rev From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

ReleasedAugust 27, 2001
Genre
Length49:45
LabelV2
Quick facts Studio album by Mercury Rev, Released ...
All Is Dream
Studio album by
Mercury Rev
ReleasedAugust 27, 2001
Genre
Length49:45
LabelV2
Producer
Mercury Rev chronology
Deserter's Songs
(1998)		 All Is Dream
(2001)		 The Secret Migration
(2005)
Singles from All Is Dream
  1. "Nite and Fog"
    Released: 6 October 2001
  2. "The Dark Is Rising"
    Released: 26 January 2002
  3. "Little Rhymes"
    Released: 27 July 2002
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Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[2]
BlenderStarStarStarStar[3]
The GuardianStarStarStar[4]
Los Angeles TimesStarStarStarHalf star[5]
NME8/10[6]
Pitchfork8.5/10[7]
QStarStarStarStar[8]
Rolling StoneStarStarStarHalf star[9]
Spin7/10[10]
UncutStarStarStarStarHalf star[11]
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All Is Dream received generally positive reviews from music critics. Q listed it as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.[12]

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
  2. "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

Mercury Rev
Additional musicians
  • Tony Visconti – string arrangement (3), additional orchestration (7), Mellotron flutes (9)
  • 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

Charts

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Chart performance for All Is Dream
Chart (2001) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[13]36
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14]46
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[15]38
French Albums (SNEP)[16]27
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[17]78
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[18]4
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[19]55
UK Albums (OCC)[20]11
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In other media

In his album Falling Off the Bone, comedian Todd Barry recounts 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."

References

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