Childhood's End (Album)
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| Studio album by Ulver | ||||
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Publication |
2012 |
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admission |
2008 and 2011 |
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| Label (s) | Kscope | |||
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Title (number) |
16 |
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running time |
53:52 |
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Ulver |
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Studio (s) |
Crystal Canyon Studios, Oslo |
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Childhood's End (subtitle: Lost & Found From the Age of Aquarius ) is an album by the Norwegian band Ulver . It was published on 28 May 2012 at Kscope and includes cover versions of rock songs of the late 1960s.
Creation and publication
Singer and composer Kristoffer Rygg says he came into contact with this music in his childhood through his parents. His continued interest in it inspired him to write this cover album.
The pieces were recorded at Crystal Canyon Studios in Oslo in autumn 2008 and summer 2011 . A number of guest musicians participated in the recordings: Sisi Sumbundu and Ingvild Langgård (vocals), Espen Jørgensen, Alexander Kloster-Jensen and Trond Mjøen (guitar), Lars Christian Folkvord and Mats Engen (bass), Anders Møller (tambourine and shaker) , Thomas Pettersen and Lars Pedersen (drums). Anders Møller mixed the album in the recording studio, Jaime Gomez Arellano mastered it in Orgone Studios in London.
On the occasion of an appearance by Ulver at the Roadburn Festival in April 2012, the cover version of The Electric Prunes ' I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night was released on the Roadburn EP six weeks before the album was released. (A recording of the performance was released a year later as Live at Roadburn - Eulogy for the Late Sixties .) A promo video was produced for the cover version of The Beau Brummels ' Magic Hollow , directed by Justin Oakey. A photograph by Hoang Van Danh was used for the cover artwork of the album, showing the same scene as Nick Út's famous photograph from the Vietnam War.
Title and original artist
- Bracelets of Fingers ( The Pretty Things ) - 4:11
- Everybody's Been Burned ( The Byrds ) - 3:25
- The Trap ( Bonniwell's Music Machine ) - 2:33
- In the Past ( The Chocolate Watchband ) - 2:54
- Today ( Jefferson Airplane ) - 3:20 am
- Can You Travel in the Dark Alone ( Gandalf ) - 4:01
- I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night ( The Electric Prunes ) - 2:53
- Street Song ( 13th Floor Elevators ) - 5:14
- 66-5-4-3-2-1 ( The Troggs ) - 3:22
- Dark Is the Bark ( The Left Banke ) - 4:02
- Magic Hollow ( The Beau Brummels ) - 3:15
- Soon There Will Be Thunder ( Common People ) - 2:26
- Velvet Sunsets ( Music Emporium ) - 2:43
- Lament of the Astral Cowboy ( Curt Boettcher ) - 2:13
- I Can See the Light ( Les Fleur De Lys ) - 3:13
- Where Is Yesterday ( The United States of America ) - 3:58
style
Since Ulver covers older rock songs on Childhood's End , the electronic and experimental arrangements of the previous albums take a back seat in favor of more conventional instrumentation with guitar, bass, drums and keyboard. Elements from various retro styles such as folk rock , garage rock , psychedelic rock , psychobilly or dream pop are now emerging .
reception
“The idea has charm, but the end result is worth discussing. [...] The songs sound smoothly produced, but are relatively interchangeable. "
“All in all, and this is the greatest achievement of this work, 'Childhood's End' is tonally very well thought out, disparate, and yet it seems like it is all of a piece. The pieces are all presented convincingly and appealingly and are neither ingratiating nor gimmicky, which suits the listening experience very much. The only flaw that I can spot is the sometimes overdone and indefinable sounds of some indefinable body of sound between guitar and keyboard [...]. "
"ULVER manage [...] to create a fine balance between childlike light-heartedness, carelessness and a youthful urge for adventure on the one hand, and a longing for these well-known feelings that are irretrievable with age on the other, and thus to implement the album title perfectly. "
“Some of the reviews of 'Childhood's End' that have already been written raise the question of who needs such a cover album , since it leaves the originals almost untouched. My answer is: I and many others, because - regardless of the cover - every song has a ULVER soul and the empathetic handling of wonderful original pieces only increases the quality of the album. […] Dust off and modernize without damaging the core, at the same time adding your own note - through voice and gentle changes: a monumental work assignment. ULVER have fulfilled it 100 percent and - at least for me - achieved their goal. On the one hand they managed to produce an excellent and extensive (pop) album, on the other hand the songs really make you want to rummage for the originals on YOUTOUBE etc. "
"Just under an hour is easy to overhear or listen to, it is musically patent, you can casually smoke or drink or paint men - but in the end at least I don't feel ready to follow this band any longer."
Web links
- Childhood's End at Kscope
- Reviews of Childhood's End on the Babyblauen Seiten
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Reviews on Childhood's End on the Babyblauen Seiten
- ↑ a b Ulver: Childhood's End. Kscope Music, accessed June 24, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Michael We: ULVER: Childhood's End. Nonpop, June 2, 2012, accessed June 29, 2012 .
- ↑ Booklet from Childhood's End
- ↑ Ulver at Jester Records (English)
- ↑ digitaljournalist.org (English)
- ↑ eclipsed No. 141, June 2012, p. 78
- ↑ Review of Childhood's End on metal.de
- ↑ Review of Childhood's End in Rock Hard, Issue 302