English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O'Sullivan is a prolific, genre-bending performer whose solo work touches upon ambient, electro-acoustic pop, progressive classical composition, and hypnotic art-rock.
Achieving international acclaim writing, recording and performing with a myriad of groups including
Grumbling Fur (with
Alexander Tucker), Norwegian alt-metal experimentalists
Ulver,
Mothlite,
Sunn 0))), Guapo,
Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses,
Miracle (with Steve Moore from
Zombi),
Æthenor and the recent reincarnation of
This Heat in the form of This Is Not This Heat.
O’Sullivan’s work is remarkable in the way it infuses familiar everyday experience with traces of the uncanny, the secret and the magickal. His 2017 solo album VELD distils these tangled realities into a rich and complex soundworld— strikingly dense and allusive, alive with enticing sonic diversions, hypnotic mantras and ornately arranged songcraft. While grounded in pop form — which O’Sullivan describes as the ideal vessel for channelling celestial energies — its dreamlike soundworld draws inspiration from across both natural and human landscapes.