9/28/2023 0 Comments Invisible cities winged victory![]() But it does this with extreme precision, deploying its most abrasive elements in the spine of the track’s bassy thrum. “The Dead Outnumber The Living” noisily calculates the immensity of the anguish that the past has wrought and will continue to wreak as the future becomes past. ![]() It bristles with a quiet longing for something that could be but never has been. “So That the City Can Begin To Exist” is somber and cool. ![]() With the sole exception of “Total Perspective Vortex” and its overwhelming assault on the senses, most tracks quietly languish in the background of your life. But it can just as easily be enjoyed passively. The pensive pace of the track, along with the descriptive title, shows us that the struggle is the only memory the subject has, and they were too enraptured by it to enjoy the moments where they achieved their goal.Ĭomplex narratives like this are bound into the DNA of this record. The subject of the track drives silently down an empty city corridor, one that they have traveled hundreds of times before, and contemplates the moments they spent in a struggle. Take, for instance, “Desires Are Already Memories.” This chilling track uses distant sounding choruses to evoke the specter of waking dreams. Jumping from song to song, listeners clearly sense that this was composed as a soundtrack to a companion piece, but each song still functions on its own. It’s a staggering companion piece to modern life. On this album, people hear everything from synths and strings to piano, choirs and glitched-out electronics. But few take that calling to the degree that A Winged Victory for the Sullen do. Like many neo-classical/ambient artists, they constantly add new sounds to their repertoire to help push them beyond the boundaries of their existing material. The ominous soundscapes of ‘The Dead Outnumber the Living’ contrast with the new beginnings that are presented in ‘Every Solstice & Equinox’, while the jagged and uneasy ‘Thirteenth Century Travelogue’ is one of tension and dread.Įlsewhere, ‘The Divided City’ captivates and intrigues while ‘Only Strings and Their Supports Remain’ and ‘There Is One of Which You Never Speak’ are bold roars for survival before the choral ambience of ‘Desires Are Already Memories’ and piercing drones of ‘Total Perspective Vortex’ bring down the curtain on a spectacular and incredibly emotive body of work.A Winged Victory for the Sullen are no strangers to the unorthodox. Transformed into 45 minutes of breathtaking beauty, ‘Invisible Cities’ opens with the numinous ‘So That the City Can Begin to Exist’, as Wiltzie and O'Halloran draw breath from distinctively enthralling and vastly expansive worlds. Originally conceived as a touring project, its last performance was in Brisbane, Australia before COVID-19 changed the world as we know it. Described by The Sunday Times as “a beautiful frenzy of movement”, it fuses theatre, music, dance, architectural design, and visuals and brings to life a series of fantastical places and disparate worlds, centered on the tense relationship between Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire, and explorer Marco Polo. Premiering to a sell-out audience in July 2019 at the Manchester International Festival, the duo was commissioned by Warner’s 59 Productions to score the music for the 90-minute multimedia theatrical stage show, adapted from Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel, ‘Invisible Cities’. Released on their own Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing label, the album comes as part of an agreement with A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s current label, Ninja Tune. ORDER: VINYL | CD | TAPE CASSETTE : bit.ly/3hQLdVVĪ Winged Victory for the Sullen, the collaboration between Adam Wiltzie & Dustin O'Halloran, release their 2021 album ‘Invisible Cities’, the stunning score to the critically acclaimed theatre production directed by London Olympics ceremony video designer Leo Warner. NEW: AWVFTS X DAVY EVANS: LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS: /shop/
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