On May 28, 2012, “Kscope” label released “Childhood’s End”, the ninth Ulver studio album. It was recorded in 2008 and 2011, at “Crystal Canyon Studios” in Oslo, and was produced by Kristoffer Rygg, Tore Ylwizaker, Jørn H. Sværen and Daniel O’Sullivan. Album cover features a photograph by Hoang Van Danh of Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm attack by the South Vietnamese Air Force in 1972. The album is a collection of covers of “60s psychedelic tracks.

Personnel:

• Kristoffer Rygg- vocals, programming
• Tore Ylwizaker – keyboards, programming
• Jørn H. Sværen – miscellaneous
• Daniel O’Sullivan- guitar, bass, keyboards
• Tomas Pettersen, Lars Pedersen – drums
• Alexander Kloster-Jensen – electric guitar
• Lars Christian Folkvord – bass
• Espen Jørgensen, Trond Mjøen – electric and acoustic guitar
• Mats Engen – bass, vocals, backing vocals
• Sisi Sumbundu, Ingvild Langgård – vocals
• Anders Møller – tambourine, shaker, congas
• Ole Alexander Halstensgård – electronic effects

Track listing:

1. Bracelets of Fingers (The Pretty Things) – Dick Taylor, Phil May, Wally Walter
2. Everybody’s Been Burned (The Byrds) – David Crosby
3. The Trap (Bonniwell’s Music Machine) – Sean Bonniwell
4. In the Past (We the People) – Wayne Proctor
5. Today (Jefferson Airplane) – Marty Balin, Paul Kantner
6. Can You Travel in the Dark Alone? (Gandalf) – Peter Sando
7. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (The Electric Prunes) – Annette Tucker, Nancie Mantz
8. Street Song (The 13th Floor Elevators) – Stacy Sutherland
9. 66-5-4-3-2-1 (The Troggs) – Reg Presley
10. Dark Is the Bark (The Left Banke) – George Cameron, Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn
11. Magic Hollow (The Beau Brummels) – Ron Elliott, Sal Valentino
12. Soon There’ll Be Thunder (Common People) – Denny, Jerrald Robinett
13. Velvet Sunsets (Music Emporium) – William Cosby, Thom Wade
14. Lament of the Astral Cowboy (Curt Boettcher) – Curt Boettcher
15. I Can See the Light (The Fleur de Lys) – Bryn Haworth, Gordon Haskell
16. Where Is Yesterday (The United States of America) – Dorothy Moskowitz, Ed Bogas, Gordon Marron