but i've also kinda always liked how fucked up and awkward they could be. they make a band like radiohead sound like rebecca of sunnybrook farm. that art opera blake thing they did is completely demented and really doesn't work in some ways at all and sounds like people in a gulag somewhere who had only read about art music and then approximated it in DIY fashion but who the hell else would make something like that? on the other hand, blood inside is near perfection if you ask me as an art-prog statement and still sounds great and stands completely apart and not at all awkward. i think that was their most successful work of art. but i've missed stuff.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
i would buy the new one. didn't have much interest in the snooz-0)))) collaboration. kinda wish ulver had made an album with scott walker instead of those doofuses for maximum mindfuck.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
I'll have to give them another shot sometime, I guess. Like I say I want to feel it! Maybe I need to go wild pitch and check out the William Blake thing, which I haven't heard.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, September 21, 2016 2:36 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes!!
the new one is definitely worth checking out, but imo their best recording since blood inside really is the psych covers album
― imago, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 09:52 (seven years ago) link
also I do like the spoken-word thing on wars of the roses
― imago, Saturday, 24 September 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
war of the roses was the last one I bought
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 25 September 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
plowing through some of their early stuff and holy shit, Nattens Madrigal is going to give me hearing loss
― frogbs, Monday, 10 April 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
so can we talk about how this new record rocks? depeche mode is the obvious referent but it's coming at it from this weird angle that i love. jury's still out on which side it lands on of pastiche vs. homage, but the tunes are def there
― austinb, Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
it lands on the side of being awesome. i made a thread about it
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
found it
― austinb, Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:50 (seven years ago) link
Not hearing what you're all hearing. Sounds like computer generated pastiche most of the time, with the distant clinical emptiness of Lansing-Dreisden. Guess I'll just have to try a few more times
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 16 April 2017 07:20 (seven years ago) link
https://ulver.bandcamp.com/album/drone-activity
posted elsewhere already?
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
i had no idea, omg
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
I've just picked up a few Ulver albums including the Drone Activity. Hadn't realised they'd released a new one
― Duke, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
including the Drone Activity
― Duke, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/28828-ulver-interview-3
A longish interview in the Quietus for their new album. It seems to be in the vein of "the Assassination...", which is exciting
― Duke, Thursday, 27 August 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
Cover of new album:
https://www.normanrecords.com/artwork/medium/48/182048-ulver-flowers-of-evil.jpg
― Duke, Thursday, 27 August 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link
And it's out!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
Yes, out today here. Looking forward to getting this.
― Duke, Friday, 28 August 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
It feels like he's easing into the sound introduced on the last album and letting himself have more fun with it.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
Yes. Sounding good so far.
― Duke, Friday, 28 August 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
wow didn't know this was coming, sounding great so far.
weird comparison, but the heavy slow-building atmosphere of the first track 'one last dance' reminds me of blick bassy's 'ngwa,' which is one of my fav songs from last year
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
the singles didn't stand out to me ahead of time but I can already feel this working on me, I think it's the equal of the last one
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
To me it has fewer immediate hooks than The Assassination..., but I'm enjoying it and it will grow.
― Duke, Friday, 28 August 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
"hour of the wolf" confirmed amazing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
actually this just keeps getting better as it goes
agreed with simon it's a more playful version of the sound on the last record... to a nigh-danceable degree on "apocalypse 1993"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
when's the D. Lissvik rework album coming out
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
So far this isn't grabbing me, but I'll give it time. See you in a month!
― lukas, Friday, 28 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
I feel the need to plug the new Greg Puciato single for anyone who digs recent Ulver
https://youtu.be/VgCMGAvurl0
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
^^ good stuff
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
Yes, thanks Simon.
― Duke, Sunday, 30 August 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
I'm enjoying the new one. Short and sweet. But it doesn't reach the highs of its predecessor. It's a more even listen, if that's the right way to put it. "Apocalypse 1993" might be my favourite for now.
― Duke, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
Really like his voice. How many other death metallers secretly have voices like polished oak?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
― lukas, Friday, August 28, 2020 12:30 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Duke's correct that the highs aren't as high, but it's consistent and it scratches an itch nothing else does. Keep coming back to this.
― lukas, Friday, 23 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/30754-ulver-reinterpret-john-carpenter-new-album-scary-muzak
― Duke, Friday, 29 October 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
New Ulver. Looking forward to this.
https://ulver.bandcamp.com/album/hexahedron-live-at-henie-onstad-kunstsenter
― Duke, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
Also this ^
It's really the first time in 15 years that it clicks, but today I was in the mood for relistening to Nattens Madrigal (in two sittings) and I find it actually much closer to Bergtatt than I thought (in composition).Also had a blast relistening to Blood Inside. Come to think of it, one thing that unites a good part of their discography is how disconcerting and dense and visceral-cerebral and hypnotic their albums are.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link