Norwegian avant-garde mission Ulver have launched every other marvel new track.
Hollywood Babylon is the 5th unmarried from the band’s 14th album, which is being regularly put out observe by means of observe.
The track’s lyrics are a statement on American politics and include references to firearms. Ulver say they had been written ahead of the assassination try towards former president Donald Trump final weekend.
In a social media observation, the band write: “Hollywood Babylon, but every other funky recent unmarried, [steals] topics and issues from the (very, very mad) international we are living in – pop and politics – in addition to the most efficient saved secret of Norway, King Midas.
“The name is clearly lifted from mythical punkers Misfits, NOT Kenneth Anger.
“And once more, the phrases had been written ahead of fresh occasions. We’re nonetheless disturbed, however no longer shocked, by means of the violence and the department and depression.
“That’s all other people. Till subsequent, Ulver xx”
Ulver launched their first observe from their new album, Ghost Access, final yr.
Since then they’ve additionally put out the songs A Town In The Skies, Forgive Us and Nocturne #1.
The band defined their determination to unlock their latest report song-by-song final month.
“This time we’re gonna stay shedding tracks until it turns into an album,” they placed on social media.
“It’s a backwards means, without a pre-order, promo folks or the rest, however that’s how we wanna roll. Slightly releasing in those twilight years.”
Ulver persisted: “We’ve made sufficient albums the traditional means, and the youngsters don’t care about that anyway. So be happy to unfold it at the Tik Tok or what have you ever.
“In the long run, you stay this previous boat afloat thru your aware/unconscious acts of listening and whispering our identify. Ulver xx”
Ulver shaped as a black steel outfit within the early Nineteen Nineties.
They switched to experimental and business song with their 1998 album Issues From William Blake’s The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell.
Since then, they’ve dabbled in post-rock, jazz, ambient, electronica, artwork rock and extra, ahead of settling right into a innovative synthpop house on 2017’s The Assassination Of Julius Caesar.
Ulver’s newest album, 2021’s Horrifying Muzak, used to be a choice of synthpop works impressed by means of or at once masking the rankings of musician/filmmaker John Wood worker.
The band recently don’t have any are living dates introduced, however have up to now carried out on the Netherlands’ Roadburn competition and on the mythical Grieg Corridor of their local Norway.
