ULVER drop complete new album "Neverland" digitally on New Year's Eve!

 

Eclectic Norwegian cult act ULVER wish everybody a Happy New Year! by gracefully releasing their complete new album "Neverland" digitally on the day of New Year's Eve! Only the digital release of "Neverland" has been scheduled to December 31, 2025, while the physical release will arrive later on February 27, 2026. Album details of "Neverland" can be viewed below. "Neverland" is now digitally available for immediate publication at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7OcP6uyiUw ULVER album "Neverland" www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7OcP6uyiUw Tracklist 1. Fear in a Handful of Dust 2. Elephant Trunk 3. Weeping Stone 4. People of the Hills 5. They're Coming! The Birds! 6. Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark 7. Horses of the Plough 8. Pandora's Box 9. Quivers in the Marrow 10. Welcome to the Jungle 11. Fire in the End "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. Written by Tore Engelsen Espedal, Oslo, October 2025

Line-up Kristoffer Rygg – drums, percussion, electronics, synthesizer, vocals Ole Alexander Halstensgård – programming, electronics, synthesizer Anders Møller – percussion, drums Jørn H. Sværen – synthesizer Stian Westerhus – guitar, bass guitar Guest musician Sara Khorami – whispers and voices (recorded at 4 a.m.) Recording by Kristoffer Rygg & Ole Alexander Halstensgård at Lupercal Studio, Oslo (NO) Mixing by Anders Møller at Subsonic Society, Oslo (NO) Mastering by Vegard Sleipnes at Reel to Reel Mastering, Oslo (NO) Artwork & layout by Paschalis Zervas (+ wolframgrafik) Links www.facebook.com/ulverofficial www.instagram.com/ulver_official Shop link https://spkr.store/collections/ulver