The Quicksilver Meat Dream is officially the fourth album by the Canadian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band I Mother Earth

I Mother Earth

I Mother Earth, or IME, was a Canadian alternative rock band. The band was at the peak of its popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s; its members have moved on to other projects.-Early years:...

, released by Universal on April 8, 2003. It is allegedly a concept album, though the details on the concept are left to the fans. It is the final album from the band.

The album retained the instrumental jams and cryptic lyrics of prior albums, but largely strayed from the band's psychedelic

Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...

 past. Instead, it offered a dark modern metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 sound with industrial elements, and at times the band's greatest emphasis on progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 to date.

Personnel

• Brian Byrne
  Brian Byrne
  Brian Byrne is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, best recognized as the second vocalist for I Mother Earth.-Biography:...
  
   – vocals
• Jagori Tanna
  Jagori Tanna
  Jagori Tanna is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote almost all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced much of it as well...
  
   – guitars, backing vocals
• Bruce Gordon
  Bruce Gordon (musician)
  Bruce Gordon is a Canadian rock musician, best known as the bassist for I Mother Earth.He was born to parents of Scottish and German heritage. He immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of six...
  
   – bass
• Christian Tanna
  Christian Tanna
  Christian Tanna is a Canadian musician. He began playing drums in high school, and with his brother, Jagori Tanna, formed I Mother Earth in 1990. Tanna played on 1993's Dig, 1996's Scenery and Fish, 1999's Blue Green Orange, and 2003's The Quicksilver Meat Dream...
  
  – drums

Track listing

(All songs written by Jagori and Christian Tanna)

1. "0157:H7" – 3:47
2. "Choke" – 4:18
3. "I is Us" – 5:42
4. "God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas)" – 6:49
5. "Like the Sun" – 4:16
6. "Hell & Malfunction" – 7:01
7. "Soft Bomb Salad" – 7:38
8. "Juicy" – 4:11
9. "No Coma" – 4:28
10. "Meat Dreams" – 8:19
    • i.) Umbilical Transmissions
    • ii.) We Be Nine
    • iii.) That's Quite an Erection, Eric
    • iv.) Blondes and Bluster
11. "Passenger" – 9:00
    • Actual track ends at 3:33, and after four minutes of silence continues with an instrumental hidden track at 7:22.

Footnotes

1. EMI released Earth, Sky and Everything in Between, an album of B-sides and live recordings, against the band's wishes in 2001. It is technically the fourth I Mother Earth album though not considered part of the discography.