Sometimes an album finds you just when you need it. After a rough couple of weeks in the old noggin, I’ve found it difficult to get excited about and even take in any new music; and the prospect of blasting something heavy has not been one I have looked forward to. Thankfully Black Metal turned New Wave experimentalists Ulver popped up with a beautiful, slinky, melancholic slice of arty Synth Pop that’s just what the Dr ordered.
Before I heap praise on this excellent release I must pass my condolences on to the bandmates and family of synth player Tore Ylwizaker who passed away this year. Although composed prior to his passing, the album serves as a wonderful epitaph to his valuable contribution to music over a 30 year career.
At the end of the hardest year in their history, Ulver are proud to release their thirteenth studio album entitled “Liminal Animals”.
This album is imbued with the scent of catastrophe, documenting with deep concern a dark and troubled place in a dark and troubled time. The cover features The Senseless Seven, a 1911 drawing by Austin Osman Spare, designed by Grand Magus Wolframgrafik Paschalis Zervas.

Tracks:
1 Ghost Entry
2 A City in the Skies
3 Forgive Us (feat. Nils Petter Molvær)
4 Nocturne #1
5 Locusts
6 Hollywood Babylon
7 The Red Light
8 Nocturne #2
9 Helian (trakl)