Norwegian avant-garde staff Ulver have introduced that they’re liberating their new studio album one tune at a time.
The band, led since their 1993 founding through vocalist Kristoffer Rygg, put out two new tracks final week, Forgive Us and Nocturne #1.
The songs apply two different fresh singles: A Town In The Skies (2024) and Ghost Access (2023).
Ulver have now showed that the string of singles will probably be changing the standard album rollout procedure, and that they intend to free up their 14th LP piece-by-piece.
“This time we’re gonna stay losing tracks until it turns into an album,” the outfit commented when Forgive Us and Nocturne #1 got here out.
“It’s a backwards method, without a pre-order, promo other folks or anything else, however that’s how we wanna roll. Rather freeing in those twilight years.
“We’ve made sufficient albums the normal method, 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“In the end, you stay this outdated boat afloat thru your mindful/unconscious acts of listening and whispering our title. Ulver xx”
Ulver have lengthy been a forward-thinking power within the heavy tune scene.
The band began as a folks/black steel undertaking however switched to experimental business tune with their 1998 album, Topics 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 revolutionary synthpop area on 2017’s The Assassination Of Julius Caesar.
Ulver’s newest album, 2021’s Frightening Muzak, used to be a selection of synthpop works impressed through or immediately protecting the rankings of musician/filmmaker John Chippie.
The band recently don’t have any are living dates introduced, however have prior to now carried out on the Netherlands’ Roadburn pageant and on the mythical Grieg Corridor of their local Norway.
