Recorded by Anthony Linell & Jonas Rönnberg in Muskö, Sweden 2021
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome
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The collaborative project of Northern Electronics' founders, Anthony Linell
and Jonas Rönnberg, has never ceased to confront with their coupling of
industrious delirium and pensive austerity. By now we know that only
adrenaline can make sense of the toxic
ensemble of purposes at the heart of
Ulwhednar. Meditating on higher flights of thrill and disorder than their
previous record, and with an acknowledgement of their Stockholm roots, 'Area
08' induces fever and anticipation with every gesture.
The opening
tracks make a raucous yet resolute introduction to proceedings,
eventually issuing one of the album's most exquisite moments of reprieve with
'Akalla/Broken Swords'. However, it is the second half of 'Area 08' that formally
admits their latest work has cro
ssed a threshold yet unexplored by the pair. A
suite of villainously propulsive tracks spit embers of caustic balms as they

careen out of reach with the engorged march of 'Commuter Madness'. Cunning
in as many ways as it is earnest and audacious, 'Area 08'
is a welcome alarm
from the nucleus of the mission.