A Winged Victory for the Sullen
LP • Black Vinyl • Gatefold Sleeve
This is the record you put on when words have done enough for one day. Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid and composer Dustin O'Halloran dragged grand pianos into Berlin churches and abandoned radio studios, then let the rooms do half the playing. Seven pieces. No drums. No vocals. No hurry. Strings swell, piano notes hang in the air longer than physics should allow, and time quietly gives up arguing. Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears is exactly as devastating as the title promises. Requiem for the Static King will stop you mid-sentence. Modern ambient at its absolute peak. Lights down. Volume up. Disappear.
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Released on 8 September 2011 through Erased Tapes, A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the debut album from the collaboration between Adam Wiltzie, founder of legendary drone outfit Stars of the Lid, and Los Angeles composer Dustin O'Halloran. Rather than work from home studios, the duo sought out large acoustic spaces, beginning with a late-night session on a 1950s Bösendorfer grand in Berlin's Grunewald Church, with strings recorded at the historic DDR radio studios in East Berlin.
Built from piano, string quartet, French horn, bassoon and slow drifts of processed guitar, the album's seven pieces include Requiem for the Static King, written in memory of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, and the thirteen-minute centrepiece A Symphony Pathetique. Guest contributors include Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir and Peter Broderick. It remains a modern cornerstone of ambient and neoclassical music.
For Juicy, this sits on the Accent shelf: the record that deepens a collection rather than headlines it, and the one you'll reach for more than you expect.
This edition is pressed as a single black vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve via Erased Tapes.
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