Posts Tagged ‘Dark Ambient’

Album of the day: Ural Umbo – Delusion of Hope

Posted on Monday, January 9th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from Lurker: Like a spectral entity resurfacing from the murky depths of the Pacific Ocean to prey under a new form, Ural Umbo has sought to reinvent itself. By applying a heavier, coarser sound to their sparse, haunting melodies, Delusion of Hope creates a whole new experience that doesn’t depart too radically from their previous releases but brings a new level to the intricate textures they’ve engineered throughout the last two years.

The psychedelic tingles of kosmische, the heaviness of drone-doom and the seduction of dark ambient find a common place once again, pushing ambience away from the background in order to give it a more active role in the listening process, and effectively turning the listener into another protagonist of their constructed nightmare.

Sometimes it’s really difficult to translate highly evocative music like this into more concrete media forms such as literature or film without missing a great deal of the overall experience, it requires an in-depth knowledge of the craft and a good amount of imagination to be able to give the music a worthy interpretation.

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Syven: Debut Album To Be Released on Vendlus Records; 2 Tracks Available For Streaming

Posted on Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Finland’s dark ambient purveyors Syven will release their debut full-length, Aikaintaite, on December 6th via Vendlus Records. The initiated may have heard early rumblings of Syven with their first song ‘How Fare The Gods?’ being released on a Prophecy Productions compilation late last year. Syven produces a soundscape that evokes ...read more