Lull - Journey Through Underworlds
(c) 2024 Cold Spring
Artist....: Lull
Album.....: Journey Through Underworlds
Source....: WEB/MP3
Tracks....: 3
Genre.....: Ambient
Label.....: Cold Spring
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 320 kbps / 441kHz / Full Stereo
URL.......: http://deezer.com/album/523571422
Tracklist:
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1. Downwards 16:39
2. Journey Through Underworlds 11:58
3. In The Distance 45:43
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74:20
Total:179.03MB / 74:20
Release Notes:
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The classic, genre-defining 1993 album from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist
dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS of SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH - is a dark
journey through the Stygian netherworlds of Hell. The listener is left with the
impression of a final escape into reality; a return upon waking, with only wispy
trace memories and the heavy rush of blood-pumping fear as a keepsake.
With this album, we are plunged back into a dark pit of noise - all escape
barred, all hope dashed. The nightmare continues, the journey through
underworlds descends deeper. These are soundtracks for Nightmares. Despite there
being just three tracks on the album, it lasts just shy of 75 minutes.
Originally released on Sentrax (the label of the late John Everall / Tactile),
the CD suffered the 'disc rot' fate of many PDO pressings from 1988-1993,
rendering most of that initial run unplayable.
Mixed by Justin K Broadrick (GODFLESH). Remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage
Studios) from the original recordings supplied by Mick Harris.
Matt digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja).
credits
releases January 26, 2024
Recorded at Wall Of Silence, Aug-Dec 1992. Mixed at Avalanche, Dec 1992-Jan
1993.
Mixed by Justin K Broadrick.
Remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage Studios) 2023.
Artwork by Abby Helasdottir.
REVIEWS:
"Lull doesn't go stretching and pitching down on us but delivers something
constantly changing and drifting around. Oddly enough, here, too, there is
something in the samples that a layman would describe as rhythm; I do. In many
ways, this album from Lull is a much more experimental album than much of his
later work, and because of its noisier character, it is also less dark ambient.
Now, isolationist music [it] certainly is; it's atmospheric, experimental and
not a commercial proposition because of its musical nature. I missed out on this
in the early 1990s, so it's great to hear it, finally" (Vital Weekly).
"Lull's masterful, unparalleled, pioneering, dark and deeply immersive
ambient/drone dreamworlds from 1993 produced by the legend Mick Harris (Fret,
Scorn, Monrella, Quoit, Napalm Death)... Turn out the lights, close your eyes
and Journey Through Underworlds" (Norman Records)