Skullflower (ambient, house, rock, genre, album)

chumb · 05-23-2007, 10:16 AM

Great British dark ambient band that formed in the late eighties, with a fairly fluid lineup including members of Whitehouse at one point. Dark Ambient is the easiest way to describe the genre, but really it falls somewhere between noise, psychedelia, krautrock, drone, and polka. Minus the polka bit... sorry. Fans of anything from Nurse With Wound to Faust can probably find something in here they enjoy.. it's all free improv but you know... that's what makes it ambient.

GravitySlips · 05-26-2007, 09:37 AM

They're pretty fu'cking trippy. Great band.

Kevorkian Logic · 05-27-2007, 07:31 AM

They are great to work to, the whole lack flying up and down the chromatic scale (especially the higher notes) and dark ambiance just really does it for me.

I suggest everybody download Skullflower as just music to chill to, I think there's a download floating around this site because i'm pretty sure that is where I got it. I would assume it is in the sharing thread.

sleepy jack · 05-29-2007, 07:27 PM

I remember downloading an album off of one of Cardboards blogs, it wasn't really something i'd listen to all the time but it was pretty legit.

Sound Devastation · 05-31-2007, 09:30 AM

Good stuff.

GravitySlips · 03-08-2008, 07:04 PM

alright...

I just saw Skullflower live, and it was one of the most trippy and mesmerising music experiences of my life thus far. Just ferocious and beautiful. Half the audience sitting on the floor at the front, me included...close your eyes...tripping out...jesus.

Honestly this band are so ****ing good. My opinion of them has increased immeasurably over the past week, as while I enjoyed them before this week, but it was a fairly lukewarm enjoyment . Now is different. Seriously blown away by that. I've gotta get more of their stuff now.

jackhammer · 03-08-2008, 07:28 PM

First I have heard about them TBH. They sound like a band that I could definitely get into.

cardboard adolescent · 03-08-2008, 07:40 PM

they are really good. i really need orange canyon mind

GravitySlips · 03-08-2008, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

they are really good. i really need orange canyon mind

me too, my friend keeps going on about that album.

IIIrd Gatekeeper is top class.

monellia · 03-09-2008, 05:55 AM

I like them, yeh. Exquisite ****ing Boredom is a great album.

05-23-2007, 10:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
chumb awamba Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 133	Skullflower Great British dark ambient band that formed in the late eighties, with a fairly fluid lineup including members of Whitehouse at one point. Dark Ambient is the easiest way to describe the genre, but really it falls somewhere between noise, psychedelia, krautrock, drone, and polka. Minus the polka bit... sorry. Fans of anything from Nurse With Wound to Faust can probably find something in here they enjoy.. it's all free improv but you know... that's what makes it ambient.

05-26-2007, 09:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
GravitySlips Music Addict Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,578	They're pretty fu'cking trippy. Great band. Last edited by GravitySlips; 05-26-2007 at 09:53 AM.

05-27-2007, 07:31 AM	#3 (permalink)
Kevorkian Logic Imperfectly Perfect Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,290	They are great to work to, the whole lack flying up and down the chromatic scale (especially the higher notes) and dark ambiance just really does it for me. I suggest everybody download Skullflower as just music to chill to, I think there's a download floating around this site because i'm pretty sure that is where I got it. I would assume it is in the sharing thread. __________________ "it is only through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect that a certain type of perfection can be attained"

05-31-2007, 09:30 AM	#5 (permalink)
Sound Devastation Music Addict Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 728	Good stuff. __________________ Out soon... AMENRA - Mass III 2xLP [stunning vinyl release of the belgian sludgecore giants epic 06 album] FALL OF EFRAFA - Owsla & Elil CD&LP [British crust/doom/post-metal band Fall of Efrafa deliver part two (Elil) on their dark conceptual trilogy. Part one (Owsla) will also be re-released for the first time in the UK] *** visit... Sound Devastation Records website**

03-08-2008, 07:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	First I have heard about them TBH. They sound like a band that I could definitely get into. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

03-08-2008, 07:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
GravitySlips Music Addict Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,578	alright... I just saw Skullflower live, and it was one of the most trippy and mesmerising music experiences of my life thus far. Just ferocious and beautiful. Half the audience sitting on the floor at the front, me included...close your eyes...tripping out...jesus. Honestly this band are so ****ing good. My opinion of them has increased immeasurably over the past week, as while I enjoyed them before this week, but it was a fairly lukewarm enjoyment . Now is different. Seriously blown away by that. I've gotta get more of their stuff now.

03-08-2008, 07:40 PM	#8 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	they are really good. i really need orange canyon mind

03-09-2008, 05:55 AM	#10 (permalink)
monellia Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Oirland Posts: 81	I like them, yeh. Exquisite ****ing Boredom is a great album.