ULVER Childhood's End 2 x LP

ULVER Childhood's End 2 x LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
 Now reissued on double LP in gatefold packaging., and back in stock on limited edition, deluxe hardback CD digibook.
  From primordial Norwegian black metal to medieval folk, darkwave-influenced electronica to dark orchestral prog, the Norwegian band Ulver has traveled far and wide stylistically throughout their career, incorporating an array of musical influences into their darkened, somber sound. But of all of the concepts that Ulver could have come up with for an album of cover songs, this homage to the psychedelic rock of the 1960's still comes as something of a surprise. With Childhood's End, Ulver return to pay homage to this particular little corner of the musical past, an all-covers album subtitled Lost & Found from the Age of Aquarius that sees the band delivering a collection of 1960s-era psychedelic pop songs. Of course, this sees the band recasting the originals into a darker context, transforming the collection into a meditation on the destruction of innocence and the horrors of war that darkened the decade, both the album title and cover art that uses Nick Ut's infamous 1972 photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc further conveying the ultimate disillusionment of the 1960s.
  Ulver transform these songs into contemporary pieces of gothic prog-pop, jangling sunkissed renditions streaked with wintry shadow. The sixteen songs included on Childhood's End are drawn from a myriad of names from the 60's psych scene: well-known bands like The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Electric Prunes, 13th Floor Elevators, and the Troggs are represented, appearing next to covers of more obscure outfits like Les Fleur De Lys, Chocolate Watchband, Gandalf, Music Emporium, The Pretty Things, Beau Brummels, Bonniwell's Music Machine, Curt Boettcher, Left Banke, The United States Of America and Common People. While the band remains fairly true to the feel of the original, all of these covers feature Ulver's unique reinterpretation, all enshrouded in the band's stately shadowy prog rock vibe. Some of the standouts: the Beatlesesque pop of The Pretty Thing's "Bracelets of Fingers" that descends into organ-drenched darkness; The Byrds' "Everybody's Been Burned" is transformed into twilit, jazzy psychedelia; the witchy waltzing harpsichord melodies and gothic trippiness of "The Trap" by Bonniwell's Music Machine; the sitar-like tremolo buzz that streaks through We The People's "In the Past"; the freeform psych guitar and Hammond organ freakout on Gandalf's "Can You Travel in the Dark Alone" that gleams with the black light of distant galaxies; the rattlesnake tambourines that import "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" from The Electric Prunes with sinister undercurrents; the utterly infectious garage-stomp and motorik delirium of The Troggs' "66-5-4-3-2-1"; the heartache of The Left Banke's "Dark Is the Bark" that is sweetened by lush orchestral strings. Tribute albums like this are usually of little interest to me, but Childhood's End is a definite exception, a bewitching listening experience where the songs float dreamily through the eerie echo and wah-glazed haze of Ulver's dark soundworld...   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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