A Winged Victory For The Sullen - The Undivided Five

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - The Undivided FivePurveyors of contemporary ambient and electronic inspired music, A Winged Victory for the Sullen make a bold return on new album The Undivided Five. The pair, made up of Dustin OHalloran and Adam Wiltzie, have created iconic film scores and forward thinking ambient groups, releasing a series of game changing records for Erased Tapes and Kranky. On The Undivided Five they rekindle their unique partnership for only their second piece of original music

the mix is based around a live recording from the night with crowd noise bleeding into Shepherd’s microphone

P Music 2014

and as something that carves luminous voids out of any colour and fine focuses white and black representing the perfect metaphor for the bleakness of life in the Metropolis as suggested by Anish Kapoors Cloud Gate

melancholy vocals provided by previous collaborator Young Dad wind their way through treated pianos and deep textures creating a mournful ballad of noise

in the words of Reggie Watts

Black paper inner

and purposeful book of songs

previously vocal-led by singer-songwriter Saint Sinner

This looks set to change

who I am and where I am

but listeners needn’t worry

'Blueberry Pancakes' ups the pace - the rhythm section hammering out the cut