Posted Tuesday, Aug| Review this album | Report (Review #1771661) Is this what we wanted or expected from the next Ulver album? Almost certainly not, but by this point we'd be fools toĮxpect Ulver to do what we want or expect - better to simply let them do their thing, and celebrate it when that results Home a chance before writing off this album out of hand. Sound, and I'd urge anyone turned off by the synthpop approach to at least give cuts like Rolling Stone or Coming Mean they've gone simplistic with it there's complex, ornate passages here which reveal hidden depths to their Moreover, just because they've gone synthpop doesn't Precedent, and whilst 80s nostalgia synthwave stuff is in vogue at the time, Ulver are able to artfully defy expectationsīy making the most 80s-tastic cut on here a tribute to 1969. Release ever, is that this is a style of gothy synthpop which feels distinctly Ulver, particularly in terms of their electronicĪnd ambient works of their post-metal era.Īfter all, Dressed In Black on Blood Inside verged on the electro-gothic, so this isn't an evolution entirely without The secret to it, which makes it perhaps my favourite Ulver Shifting into the realm of honest-to-goodness synthpop. Trying out a radically different genre from their former work would be utterly unsurprising - I mean, this is the sameīand which bounced from kvlt black metal to dark folk across their first two albums, after all.Īnd yet, somehow The Assassination of Julius Caesar manages to be another whiplash-inducing swerve from Ulver, You'd think that by this point in their career, after all the twists and turns they've taken us down, the prospect of Ulver Posted Sunday, Ap| Review this album | Report (Review #1716086)
Most murderous tunes: Rolling Stone, Angelus Novus, Transverberation Despite the dip in excitement in the last two tracks and the overall simplistic nature of theĬompositions which affects the lasting impression, Ulver will satisfy theirĮver-hungry-for-experimentation audience and add another stone to their hall-of-fame tower in Instrumentals and decides to sing extensively blending their voice in the hypnotic ambience of theĪlbum. Of Avila'' could do about such an assault of experimentation. Tiamat and Dead Can Dance mashed with 80's Depeche Mode the Sisters of Mercy - nothing ''St. Haunted, gothic, electronica, gospel (!) and trip-hop dances around the fire with a dose of 90's ''tragedies repeat themselves in perfect circle'' throughout this sinister lyrical narrative. Julius Caesar is assassinated, ''Nero lights up the night'' and ''In the year of the Lord'' 2017 the wolf has decided
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''Legends fail and houses fall'' but the wolf seems to be changing skin withĮvery new release, like a ''Rolling Stone''.
''Poor little sister, I hope you understand, the babe in the woods will be taken by a wolf''. LP House Of Mythology - HOM 010 (2017, UK) Michael Lawrence / samples, strings Releases informationĪrtwork: Trine + Kim Design Studio based on Gian Lorenzo Bernini's "The Rape of Proserpina" (1621-1622)ĬD House Of Mythology - HOM 010 (2017, UK) Ole Alexander Halstensgård / electronics Tore Ylwizaker / keyboards, programming
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