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ULVER NEVERLAND PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 2025
Neverland, the fourteenth studio album by Ulver, is the sound of an escape. A journey into undiscovered lands.
Following three albums – The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017), Flowers of Evil (2020), and Liminal Animals (2024) – rooted in more traditional song and production structures, Neverland marks a new chapter in the revered Oslo band's history.
"With Neverland we embraced a more 'punk' spirit – more dreaming, less discipline – freer, quite simply", the band comments on the creative process behind the album.
Bursts of daybreak synths and whooshes of sound set the atmosphere, before the wolves start digging into the dynamics of ambient calm and anarchic mysticism. Dreamy and transportive textures develop into trippy percussive energies, and as the album unfolds, a lush and vibrant, and at times exotic space opens.
Apart from a few recurring distant voices and vocal chops, Neverland is a largely instrumental record, reminiscent of the mood and structure of that place where late '90s IDM sounds met the meandering structures of post-rock. The ghost of premillennial sample culture surely haunts Neverland, and some might even hear echoes from earlier acclaimed works like Perdition City (2000), or the Silence EPs (2001), or more recently ATGCLVLSSCAP (2016).
Still, Neverland sounds and feels like something else, something fresh in Ulver's continuous journey of perennial reinvention. Pop music from in-between worlds? A sonic hallucination? Or better: a collage of dreams. It's up to you.
Tore Engelsen Espedal, Oslo, October 2025
KEY INFO
Neverland, the new album from the Norwegian shapeshifters Ulver, is due for a full digital release and pre-orders on LPs and CDs on 31 December 2025, via House of Mythology Neverland, their 14th studio album was recorded during spring and summer 2025 in the band's own Lupercal studio in Oslo. It was produced by Ole Alexander Halstensgård and Kristoffer Rygg, and performed by Halstensgård and Rygg alongside Anders Møller, Jørn H. Sværen, and Stian Westerhus, with Sara Khorami as special guest. The album was mixed by Anders Møller and mastered by Vegard Sleipnes at Subsonic Society. Design by Paschalis Zervas, + wolframgrafik, Athens.
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IN MEMORIAM TORE YLVISAKER (1970–2024)
Where to even begin? Our friend for the better part of our adult lives is gone. He chose to leave life on what would be his 54th birthday, 16 August 2024. Read our eulogy here.
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