Description
2009 re-issue on Osmose productions
Pulver is Lifelover first full-length, it features B playing guitars, bass and piano, providing vocals and guitars, plus 1853 performing additional vocals; everyone of them also provided speeches throughout the song, and the whole band along with LR wrote the lyrics. Pulver is actually a masterpiece of innovation in the musical world, creating in my opinion a new genre, made up mainly by different kinds of vocals combining through the songs (speeches, screams, shrieks and clean vocals), brilliant melodies often played by acoustic and/or electric guitars with the help of some piano notes, and swaps from acoustic to electric music. The opener Nackskott is a clear example of Lifelover’s style: a somehow happy, acoustic guitar melody takes the song into screams, only to take back the former acoustic melody, which then fades into a heavy, electric part in whichs vocals keep on changing from harsh to clean. Pulver is, to me, one of the best albums of the last years, and its variety is so wide that it can not be included into one or more genres: we have black metal, acoustic piano music, clean vocals mixed up with speeches, screams and growls, electric and acoustic guitars combined and many other kinds of music which is useless to expand upon. Lifelover’s genius, managed by B’s insane amounts of creativity, emerges in a pure way on Pulver, a way which will still evolve in the next albums, gaining more heavy and electric sounds on Dekadens and Sjukdom, or more instrumental melodies on Erotik; thus, Pulver is highly recommended to virtually anyone since its songs are one more beautiful than the other, greatly different and featuring dozens of astonishing, innovative, extremely catchy melodies.
Track listing:
1. Nackskott/Neckshot
2. M/S Salmonella
3. Mitt Oppna Oga/My Open Eye
4. Karlek – Becksvart Melankoli/Love – Pitch Black Melancholy
5. Vardagsnytt/Everyday News
6. Avbrott Sex/Coitus Interruptus
7. Stockholm
8. Sondag/Sunday
9. Herrens Hand/The Hand Of The Lord
10. Medicinmannen/The Medicine Man
11. Nasta Gryning/Next Dawn
12. En Sang Om Dig/A Song About You