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All Is Dream

2001 studio album by Mercury Rev

All Is Dream
Studio album by Mercury Rev
Released	August 27, 2001
Genre	Dream pop, psychedelic rock, chamber pop
Length	49:45
Label	V2
Producer	Dave Fridmann, Grasshopper, Jonathan Donahue, Jeff Mercel
Mercury Rev chronology
Deserter's Songs (1998) All Is Dream (2001) The Secret Migration (2005)
Singles from All Is Dream
"Nite and Fog" Released: 6 October 2001 "The Dark Is Rising" Released: 26 January 2002 "Little Rhymes" Released: 27 July 2002

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.

Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Blender	[3]
The Guardian	[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
NME	8/10[6]
Pitchfork	8.5/10[7]
Q	[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Spin	7/10[10]
Uncut	[11]

All Is Dream received generally positive reviews from music critics. Q listed All Is Dream as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.^[12]

Track listing[edit]

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

11. "Cool Waves" – 3:10

Limited edition bonus CD-ROM[edit]

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[edit]

• Jonathan Donahue – words and acoustic guitar
• Grasshopper – moth-light guitars
• Jeff Mercel – drums and piano
• Dave Fridmann – bass guitar 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

Charts[edit]

In other media[edit]

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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."

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