A Winged Victory For The Sullen
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2001
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A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos Album Review
By Jordan Dowling in Music Reviews on 05 September 2014
There is, it seems, a compulsion felt by most music scribes when offering criticism of ambient music to meet a scarcity of sound with an over-abundance of adjectives and imagery; to compensate for minimalism by offering maximalism. To waste words. This review is the product of such a compulsion, and no apology is offered.
Despite the protestations of the co-conspirators behind the album, who stressed the fact that A Winged Victory For The Sullen was not merely a 'side-project' but an ongoing concern, it did feel like a one-off; the first and final hurrah of an entity that arose from a chance meeting between the two many years prior. This was not only due to the workloads of both artists outside of the 'project' but the fact that it was difficult to see where they could improve on their first release. 'Atomos' is how.
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By Jordan Dowling in Music Reviews on 24 August 2011
With so little room for variation and such an over-saturation in both the field of 'ambient' music and commentary on it any review of an album situated in the genre can seem to be a retread and offer little more than stereotypical adjectives (read: 'heavenly', 'spacy', 'glistening') and entirely obvious comparisons to the scenes' two godfathers of both the past and present; Eno and Stars Of The Lid. That 'A Winged Victory For The Sullen' is the new hub of Stars Of The Lid founding member Adam Wiltzie doesn't offer much promise of something fresh, but this self-titled debut, a collaboration with respected composer Dustin O'Halloran, is a thoroughly wonderful full-length.