Track Listing

1. Lost in Moments
2. Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses
3. Hallways of Always
4. Tomorrow Never Knows
5. Future Sound of Music
6. We Are the Dead
7. Dead City Centres
8. Catalept
9. Nowhere/Catastrophe

Product Details

• Released on: 2003-07-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Enhanced
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Music for any city
I recommend this album to everyone who REALLY loves music. Whether it is metal, electronic, classical, or country, it does not matter. If you love good music and like to hear music mixed and done to perfection, this is a good album to invest in.

Everything on this album is perfectly flowed together.

From beginning to end, this musical masterpiece shows how much a metal band can evolve(who is still evolving far beyond this). There is NOTHING resembling metal anywhere on this album. However, being a huge fan of black metal (especially Norwegian), I can say that this is one of my favorite CD's.

Not having ever heard much electronic or ambient music I cannot compare it to anything or anyone else. It's better than ambient Burzum and the William Blake CD. Really, the only thing I like more than this is the Teachings in Silence album.

I recommend it for anyone who ever finds themselves looking for the perfect soundtrack to a late night drive through a busy city or something to make the pencil flow across the paper a little easier. It's great to hear while clicking away your life on a computer or just to have on while having a conversation. It will not distract you from what you are doing, but if you do find yourself sitting alone with headphones on in a dark room (as is recommended on the CD itself) you will be pleasntly surprised and amazed at what you hear.

The sound Ulver achieves is both one of simplicity and complexity. The overriding keyboards or beat box drumming on some songs may be all you hear the first couple of times, but when you really listen and hear the way everything is masterfully flowed together, you will (hopefully) appreciate the music for all that it can give you.

the unpredictable beast
i can't believe the band who made the awfully dissonant "nattens madrigal" is the same one i'm listening to, now.
i dont know what inspired ulver to write such a music but i'm glad they did it. the album flows like one long track (with the exception of "nowhere/catastrophe", which is obviously, a break, made on purpose. the music is simply great; tracks 1 and 2 will become your instant favorites but with each new listen, the remaining songs (namely "the future sound of music" and "dead city centres") will get just as (if not more!) interesting. The use of saxophones is pure genius because these instruments fit the mood so well. and if the cd you have contains the "limbo central" animation, then, you're in for a treat! i've been listening to this cd for several weeks non-stop, at work or alone at night, its music is spellbinding and fresh. being a fan of early ulver as well, i get amused with playing "bergtatt" after "perdition city" . ulver are true artists.

Headphones And Darkness
Sitting alone in a dark room wondering if the sounds are of the settling house or spirits coming to address the loneliness of the single occupant. Briefly elevated by inner longing personified into dramatic mood-shifts and bleak arrangements. Non-typical flickering television program describing the future depraved state of reality in the form of "Catalept". Every living shape miles around exists only within themselves, and computer A.I. expresses its own feelings and emotions on "The Future Sound Of Music". Long playing avant-electronica without the joy or adrenaline.