Album Rating: 4.0

Used to be one of my favorite Ulver records, but not so much anymore. The second half of the record feels like a totally different album and sucks me out of the experience.

Album Rating: 4.6

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Used to be one of my favorite Ulver records, but not so much anymore. The second half of the record feels like a totally different album and sucks me out of the experience.

Album Rating: 4.5

Or rather float drift...

Album Rating: 4.6

Through an enormous dark room

A room of noises

Endless shimmering glissandi

Crackling pizzicato

Album Rating: 4.5

Coal black

Turbulence holes of bass drones

Otherwise empty

No planets, no meteorites

Album Rating: 4.6

If anything, perhaps fine dust clouds of exploded muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusiiiiiic



You float there, somewhere between pleasure and feeeeeeear

Album Rating: 4.5

....nowhere.....

Album Rating: 4.6

c a t a s t r o p h e

Album Rating: 4.5

That sax, THAT FUCKING SAX. They just hit you with it at full volume in Lost In Moments.

Album Rating: 5.0

First half is monumental, indeed.

Album Rating: 4.5

neuropa site says mine was shipped on 14th feb. anyone get theirs yet?

Album Rating: 4.5

wait lmao it was shipped today! 3/14. though i preordered it 2/07 Q_Q

Album Rating: 4.6

budgie, mine's stuck in NYC customs since the 3rd

Album Rating: 4.5

fripper did you get it? mine came a couple days ago. sleeve is nice and the inside is the same design as previous pressing I bad but overall feels a little cheaper. record sounds fine though I don't mind the remastering

Album Rating: 4.6

yep, it showed up yesterday actually. If you check in with Neuropa by email (they send a confirmation email with details, just reply with your order number and a request for your shipping number and they'll get back to you) (for anyone who hasn't got theirs yet and is wondering where it's at)



I can't compare it to the original 2010/11 pressings, but I like how they added the Metamorphosis EP on the last side to justify the extra cost. I'd rather it be that way instead of a 54 minute record crammed onto two sides like it's Bob Dylan's Desire all over again.



The packaging is nice, simple - it's really how all records should be honestly. The recent trend of gimmicky covers and all this nonsense has outworn its welcome. A poster is cool, but a pop-up cover that warps the records like the Father John Misty did is just too much.

Album Rating: 4.5

what's the issue in having the total playtime on just one disc, does it affect the quality? I like just having to flip the album once lol. by sleeve quality I just mean it feels thinner and more flimsy but it's a beautiful design of course, just like war of the roses, gorgeous design

Album Rating: 4.6

In most cases, yes - depending on the dynamics of the record. Quieter stuff could get away with having almost an hour's worth of music on just one LP, but something more louder would just sound awful (Todd Rundgren's Initiation album is a good example). The dynamics and sound of an album is a good reason why some labels like Warp even put 40 minute album on 2LP (Flying Lotus' You're Dead! album was 38 minutes long with side one being 8 minutes. They added a three minute bonus track at the end, but even then it wasn't worth the price (it was $28 when it came out on vinyl) and wasn't needed on more than just one LP). Something over 50 minutes I can get why it would get split, but anything less it should just stay on one LP unless the sequencing would render it impossible.

Album Rating: 4.6

As for the sleeve quality, if we compare it to the stock quality from today's releases it's a bit thinner. However, nothing will ever beat the flimsiness and incredibly fragile feel of any U.K. pressings of an album from the 70s/80s. They used a whole lot less paper stock or whatever than the U.S. did (assuming you're from the States as well).

Album Rating: 5.0

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