ULVER and AKFF! are aiming to collaborate once more on an animated music video for ULVER‘s single “Hollywood Babylon.” The track, which premiered this past July, is also part of Liminal Animals, the latest album from the Norwegian black-metal-turned-ambient-experimental group.
To bring this project to life, the duo is seeking approximately $4,100 USD through a crowdfunding campaign hosted on Kickstarter.
Regarding the vision for the upcoming video, AKFF! shared: “Imagine ULVER’s thought-provoking ”Hollywood Babylon” accompanied by a new music video by AKFF!, set in a futuristic world influenced by the theme and aesthetics of movies like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) Nosferatu (1922), Metropolis (1927) and Tron (1982). A very shallow and self indulgent world, not unlike our own time, focused on image, looks and facade, as a striking visual metaphor for the alienation and obsession of modern society.
Taking inspiration from the highly evocative lyrics to the song, the story revolves around a heroine set on restoring her slowly but inevitably fading beauty. She is hard at work, creating a bettered version of herself on the Face Remodeller, an arcade machine that offers convenient means to mold yourself a new face. But the experience goes awry when the model materialises as a grotesque reflection of the heroines shortcomings, a doppelgänger set on replacing her in the real world…”
Liminal Animals is permeated by the smell of disaster and documents, with deep concern, a dark and troubled place in a dark and troubled time. Yes, in the vast ULVER catalogue, now dating back 30 years, it wouldn’t be hard to argue that Liminal Animals can be seen as a continuation of its acclaimed predecessors The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017) and Flowers of Evil (2020). This time around, though, their reflections on the overwhelming confusion and conflict seem to have become more pronounced and explicit, as if the songs were born out of the acute intensity of the current situation.
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