ulver assassination of julius caesar vinyl

A universe where 'pop' is more a mark of distinction, denoting immediacy and possible body movement. You don't have to worry about vexing radio humdrum or pastel ear candy though - Talk Talk and Music Machine are pop music as good as any in the universe of Ulver. Never afraid of challenging or redefining current musical conventions, Ulver has now enacted what they are calling 'their pop album'. Those familiar with this stubborn pack of wolves from Oslo will not be surprised that they also this time round are shifting shape. 'I want to tell you something / about the grace of faded things,' as it goes in the song 'Southern Gothic'. From the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II on one day in May 1981, to the queer, black house with the address 6114 California Street, San Francisco, better known as the headquarters of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan - Ulver moves seamlessly through time and space, and manages, in their own strange ways, to create a coherent tableau with a deeply personal backdrop. And the band's unruly play with myth, history and popular culture has never been more manifest than now. Such historical quantum leaps often occur in Ulver's musical universe, which has never been bound by any physical law. This picture opens Ulver's 13th album, The Assassination of Julius Caesar. The story is strangely resonant with the myth of the Greek goddess Artemis (Roman: Diana) and the hunter Actaeon, who, after having seen the goddess bathing naked, is turned into a stag and torn to pieces by his own hunting hounds. The world has lost one of its greatest icons and the morbidity of popular culture hits a new high. In the Pont de l'Alma tunnel the car swerves into a roof-supporting pillar and in the echo of the metallic roar dies Diana, the Princess of Wales. Just after midnight a black Mercedes Benz rushes through the dark streets with a horde of ravenous paparazzi on tow. 31 August 1997 was one of the hottest nights in Paris that year.

Ulver assassination of julius caesar vinyl