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Ulver offer the next single ‘They’re Coming! The Birds!‘ taken from the eclectic Norwegian cult act’s forthcoming new album “Neverland”, which has been scheduled for digital release on December 31, 2025 and for physical release on February 27, 2026.
Album details of “Neverland” can be viewed below.
A visualiser for ‘They’re Coming! The Birds!‘ is now available for immediate publication via this link:
Tracklist
1. Fear in a Handful of Dust
2. Elephant Trunk
3. Weeping Stone
4. People of the Hills
5. They’re Coming! The Birds!
6. Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark
7. Horses of the Plough
8. Pandora’s Box
9. Quivers in the Marrow
10. Welcome to the Jungle
11. Fire in the End
“Neverland”, the fourteenth studio album by Ulver is the sound of an escape. A journey into undiscovered lands.
Following three albums – “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” (2017), “Flowers of Evil” (2020), and “Liminal Animals” (2024) – rooted in more traditional song and production structures, “Neverland” marks a new chapter in the revered Oslo band’s history.
“With ‘Neverland’ we embraced a more ‘punk’ spirit – more dreaming, less discipline – freer, quite simply”, the band comments on the creative process behind the album.
Bursts of daybreak synths and whooshes of sound set the atmosphere, before the wolves start digging into the dynamics of ambient calm and anarchic mysticism. Dreamy and transportive textures develop into trippy percussive energies, and as the album unfolds, a lush and vibrant, and at times exotic space opens.
Apart from a few recurring distant voices and vocal chops, “Neverland” is a largely instrumental record, reminiscent of the mood and structure of that place where late ’90s IDM sounds met the meandering structures of post-rock.
The ghost of premillennial sample culture surely haunts “Neverland”, and some might even hear echoes from earlier acclaimed works like “Perdition City” (2000), or the “Silence” EPs (2001), or more recently “ATGCLVLSSCAP” (2016).
Still, “Neverland” sounds and feels like something else, something fresh in Ulver’s continuous journey of perennial reinvention. Pop music from in-between worlds? A sonic hallucination? Or better: a collage of dreams. It’s up to you.
Written by Tore Engelsen Espedal, Oslo, October 2025
Band: Ulver
Album title: Neverland
Style: Ambient Electronica
Digital release date: December 31, 2025
Physical release date: February 27, 2026
Label: House of Mythology
Review impact date: December 1, 2025
Line-up
Kristoffer Rygg – drums, percussion, electronics, synthesizer, vocals
Ole Alexander Halstensgård – programming, electronics, synthesizer
Anders Møller – percussion, drums
Jørn H. Sværen – synthesizer
Stian Westerhus – guitar, bass guitar
Guest musician
Sara Khorami – whispers and voices (recorded at 4 a.m.)
Recording by Kristoffer Rygg & Ole Alexander Halstensgård at Lupercal Studio, Oslo (NO)
Mixing by Anders Møller at Subsonic Society, Oslo (NO)
Mastering by Vegard Sleipnes at Reel to Reel Mastering, Oslo (NO)
Artwork & layout by Paschalis Zervas (+ wolframgrafik)
Links
www.facebook.com/ulverofficial
www.instagram.com/ulver_official
Shoplink
https://spkr.store/collections/ulver
Available formats
“Neverland” is available as Jewelcase CD, as black bio vinyl LP, as ltd. crystal clear vinyl LP (300 copies / sold out), as ltd. marbled transparent blue & white vinyl LP (1,000 copies), as ltd. blue liquid-filled vinyl LP (33 copies / sold out), as ltd. orange liquid-filled vinyl LP (33 copies / sold out), and as ltd. yellow liquid-filled vinyl LP (33 copies / sold out).
