Shopping For Records: Sunn O))) & Ulver's Terrestrials

Word of 2014 releases is starting to roll in.  The first notice of next year's treasure trove arrived yesterday in the form of Terrestrials, a collaborative effort from SunnO))) and Ulver that will be released in February.  Other than reissues, I think this will be the first new album SunnO)))'s released since 2009's Monoliths & Dimensions, which I still consider one of the best albums the zero-zero decade had to offer.  You can read my review of that album here


Word of the release comes to you from Earsplit PR, so give it a read.  



SUNN O))) & ULVER: Collaborative Work Entitled Terrestrials Due For February 2014 Release Via Southern Lord

SUNN O)))'s most recent studio album, 2009's Monoliths and Dimensions, and ULVER's 2013 album, Messe I.X-VI.X, found both evolving and longstanding groups venturing into the world of acoustic arrangement and contemporary orchestration. Besides arriving at this seeming parallel in vision, the pair's long standing camaraderie was initiated during SUNN O)))'s 2003's White1 sessions with the track "CutWOODED" which was produced by ULVER, in tribute to deceased film director Ed Wood.

ULVER's decision to emerge from the shadows into live performance, in 2009, unveiled a new facet of showmanship and presentation which took their audiences to an unforeseen level. SUNN O)))'s presence has continuously been felt — whether in the prospect of their hundreds of legendary live concerts, the reissue of out-of-print albums in devotion to their loyal fanbase, or the recent unveiling of their new website — and the anticipation of something new was heightened beyond belief recently when the label posted online the words, "SUNN O))) & ULVER 2014".

Yes. At long last they have come together for a more developed collaborative work.

Today, it comes with great pleasure to confirm that these words, SUNN O))) and ULVER, together, represent an astonishing yet somehow totally tenable matrimony of these two earthshakingly powerful forces, coming together like tectonic plates. The result of this union is a three-track recording entitled
Terrestrials; a trio of movements which flow like magma beneath the Earth's crust, sonically uninhibited, unpredictably cosmic, haunting and stirring, yet simultaneously ceremonious and beautiful.

Southern Lord shall release Terrestrials in February 2014.

http://sunn.southernlord.com 
http://www.jester-records.com/ulver 
http://www.southernlord.com 
http://www.ideologic.org

Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead 

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