Perdition City
by Ulver
- Type: Album
- Released: 26 March 2000
- Label: Jester Records
- Country: Norway
- Length: 53:34
- Community rating: 4.27/5 from 14 ratings
Artists on this release: Aismal, Tore Ylvisaker, AiwarikiaR, J酶rn H. Sv忙ren, Haavard, Garm, Kristoffer Rygg, Skoll, Ole Alexander Halstensg氓rd
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Subtitled 'Music to an Interior Film', 'Perdition City' is a moody and urban masterpiece that completely reinvented the group as an electronic ensemble. The record blends trip-hop beats, dark jazz textures, and ambient soundscapes to construct a cinematic atmosphere of nocturnal city life. It remains a groundbreaking work that successfully married industrial coldness with soulful, jazzy experimentation.
Genres
Descriptors: experimental, atmospheric, electronic, downtempo, moody, conceptual, diverse
Tracklist
- Lost in Moments (07:17)
- Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses (07:09)
- Hallways of Always (06:35)
- Tomorrow Never Knows (07:59)
- The Future Sound of Music (06:39)
- We Are the Dead (03:40)
- Dead City Centres (07:10)
- Catalept (02:17)
- Nowhere/Catastrophe (04:48)
Credits
- Garm - Member
- Aismal - Member
- AiwarikiaR - Member
- Haavard - Member
- Skoll - Member
- Kristoffer Rygg - Member, written-by [conceived], performer, recorded by, edited by
- Tore Ylvisaker - Member
- Ole Alexander Halstensg氓rd - Member
- J酶rn H. Sv忙ren - Member
- Trickster G. - artwork [backside], written-by [conceived], performer, recorded by, edited by
- Ivar Harry Johansen - cymbal [zildjian cymbal]
- Subtopia - design
- H氓vard J酶rgensen - electric guitar [all electric guitars]
- Audun Strype - mastered by
- Tore Ylwizaker - mixed by, written-by [conceived], performer, recorded by, edited by
- B氓rd Torgersen - photography by [booklet photos]
- Esben Johansen - photography by [front photo]