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Lull - Cold Summer flac album
  • Performer Lull
  • Title Cold Summer
  • Date of release 1994
  • Country UK
  • Style Dark Ambient
  • Other formats XM DXD AU VQF ADX DTS MPC
  • Genre Electronic
  • Size MP3 1361 mb
  • Size FLAC 1735 mb
  • Rating: 4.1
  • Votes: 754

Label: Sentrax ‎– SNTX 490. Format: CD, Album. In many ways I feel that this is the best of LULL's albums. While there are a lot of people doing similar work in the field of Dark Ambience (or Isolationism?), this album shows LULL to be at their most unique and powerful. It hangs in the uneasy space between cossetting beauty and dehumanized coldness. Personally I could listen to this for hours.

Harris already had two Lull efforts under his belt by the time Cold Summer surfaced, but this packed-to-the-brim disc was easily the pinnacle of his efforts up to that point, four lengthy songs that more than anything else justified the "isolationism" tag that surfaced at the time to describe chilled, cool ambient. Comparison points to the work of Thomas Köner and Main in particular work here, and in some respect Lull finds a particular balance between both, combining the sense of hushed alien landscapes from the former with the obsessive focus on rhythm from the latter.

Album Name Cold Summer. Labels Subharmonic Sentrax. Members owning this album0. Re-issue in 1995 by Subharmonic with a different cover.

Cold Summer' is by far the best album by Lull being the creepiest and most chilling album they recorded. Fans of Tangerine Dream's 'Zeit' would be advised to seek this out. 'Long Way Home' has beautiful chiming bells mixed and mashed to oblivion as a deeply ominous bass sweeps in the foreground. An almost deafening sub-deep bass runs rampant before being barely audible in the next track. This is the classic example of the genre known as 'Isolationism' and this recording has that inherent all consuming darkness.

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Tracklist

Slow Fall Inward 23:55
Lonely Shelter 15:56
Long Way Home 23:38
Lost Sanctum 15:57

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
SNTX 490 Lull Cold Summer ‎(CD, Album) Sentrax SNTX 490 UK 1994
SD 7013 Lull Cold Summer ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, S/Edition) Subharmonic SD 7013 US 1994
SD 7013 Lull Cold Summer ‎(CD, Album) Subharmonic SD 7013 US 1995
SD7013-2 Lull Cold Summer ‎(CD, Album, RE) Subharmonic SD7013-2 US 1995
none Lull Cold Summer ‎(4xFile, MP3, Album, RE, 128) Subharmonic none 2000


Talk about Lull - Cold Summer


Hellmaster
I have a 'handmade' version of this. Listed here https://www.discogs.com/Lull-Cold-Summer/release/12976073If anyone has any info about my version I'd be happy to read it.
net rider
Curiously the opening track on this album starts off sounding like a piece from a CARPENTER film taken down a couple of octaves. Unlike later LULL explorations, this still retains a strong structure, and has quite a charming, pacifying warmth to it which envelops the listener in smoky-black heat. There's a similar feel to this piece as to the VIDNA OBMANA / STEVE ROACH "Well Of Souls" CD - slightly Mystical Eastern with flute like sounds climbing over the top like lonesome seagulls. The second track sounds more like a cross between the first "Dreamt About Dreaming" album and ART OF PRIMITIVE SOUND - bones crushed to dust on the cold stone floor of a cave while bodies move around in the shadows - machines are humming in the background which makes the dwellers in the dark Morlock-like. Track three moves into fragile places once more - deep underground, yet warm as the fires of Hell. It massages you softly, almost lovingly, but has as much hidden evil to it's purpose (I feel) as had the "Murder Ballads" albums. A similar feel - lulling, passive, promising peace and comfort, yet it has enough darkness to never completely put you at your ease. The fourth and final track is less focused than the previous pieces, less adherent to composition, relying more on drifting imagery, flowing sounds filling in the gaps within structures. As such it again sounds more like the driftwork explorations of "Murder Ballads". In many ways I feel that this is the best of LULL's albums. While there are a lot of people doing similar work in the field of Dark Ambience (or Isolationism?), this album shows LULL to be at their most unique and powerful. It hangs in the uneasy space between cossetting beauty and dehumanized coldness. Personally I could listen to this for hours. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.
skriper
This is a rarefied and minimal ambient album. There are some drones of a dead nature that appear and fade away. You can hear fluted notes for an impossible ethnic music. There's a digital and analog taste that hides the notes. Sometimes some waters seem to flow away into the woods. Mick Harris made this album in isolation on April 1994. This is a charming and very hard record, at first listenings; but then, you enter in a world apart, where you can find the real, static, sense of nature; vibrations, spams and fires. Everything is in an undertone, and dreadful.