A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears
Since I wrote the post below myself just last night, there’s not much else that I can say to you all besides reiterate the point that is you are interested at all in classical, ambient, or anything that’s beautiful in this world, you should probably listen to this as soon as you can. This is sure to be “album of the year” material, i can feel it in my bones. Read the following post for a more wordy description of this 5-minute cosmic journey—and follow us on Boy Attractions if you don’t already!
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That charming duo above is A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a group comprised of classical composer Dustin O’Halloran and 1/2 of Stars of the Lid (<333), Adam Wiltzie. Combine their powers of making beautifully cosmic ambient-classical hybrids into one album and you have me officially stoked. Yes, it is indeed possible to be “stoked” for an ambient album—that’s just a testament to the reputation that these two have respectively created on their own with not only myself, but many others around the world who love to lose themselves in the boundless worlds that they create. “Steep Hills”, our first glimpse of their upcoming self-titled debut, opens with waves of gentle harmonized drone—a welcome sound for those who regularly fall asleep and read with SotL as their guides—which is later joined by a quiet chorus of strings, quietly beckoning you into their universe with arms and hearts open. A lone piano pipes up, shimmering but distant, as if encased in a cocoon of rolling fog. The strings swell up like golden balloons, and soon, the heart melts, the flowers begin to bloom in the dewy morning sun, and galaxies collide in the distant corners of space. It’s flowing, graceful and massive, simultaneously the sound of the smallest victory and the greatest of defeats.
A Winged Victory for the Sullen is out Sept. 12th on Kranky.
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