Everything That Rises Must Converge is the fourth album by Danish rock act Sort Sol

Sort Sol

Sort Sol is a pioneer rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark. The band was formed in 1977 as a punk rock outfit, originally under the name Sods. Despite drastic changes in the group's line-up, their current name, which translates to English as black sun, has remained with them since the early 1980s...

 (aka Sods). The album name comes from the title of a short story by Southern writer Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...

. The album was released in 1987 and showed another change of direction for the group. Before the recording of the album second guitarist Lars Top-Galia had entered the group, which caused the band's sound to developed into a more hard edged, hard rocking sound, followed by immediate musical sparks between Lars Top-Galia and the group's other guitarist Peter Peter Schneidermann who soon named themselves the "Evil Twins".

In 1997 the album was reissued, featuring a whole disc of outtakes and b-sides called "The Violent Bear It Away", which was intended to be the title of the album and is also the title of a short story by Flannery O'Connor. The extra features a re-recording of the song "As She Weeps" from the Dagger & Guitar

Dagger & Guitar

Dagger & Guitar is the third album by the Danish rock band Sort Sol and is the first of their records to carry that name. The album was, when it was released, often seen as the first "commercial" album for the band as it contained more listenable and catchier songs than the two previous albums. It...

album, but on this version it is sung by lead singer Steen Jørgensen instead of American singer Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene...

 who sung lead vocals on the original version. It also contains a cover of T.Rex's "Children of the Revolution".

Track listing

1. "Ode To Billie Joe" - 7:07 (Gentry)
2. "A Knife For The Ladies" - 2:51 (Jørgensen/Top Galia)
3. "Shapes of Summer" - 3:23 (Odde/Schneidermann)
4. "Abyss Revisited" - 3:09 (Sort Sol)
5. "Angelus Novus" - 2:01 (Odde)
6. "Fire Engine" - 3:19 (Hall/Sutherland/Erickson/Sort Sol)
7. "Searching Down the Block" - 3:31 (Odde)
8. "Midget Finger" - 4:46 (Odde/Jørgensen)
9. "Pinocchio Loose" - 3:25 (Odde/Schneidermann)
10. "Marguerita" - 2:23 (Robertson)

"The Violent Bear It Away"

1. "Black Sabbath" - 5:33 (Black Sabbath)
2. "Blood in the Saddle" - 2:29 (Tex Ritter)
3. "Children of the Revolution" (Bolan) - 2:32
4. "Hurricane Fighter Plane" - 4:06 (Thompson/Cunningham/Barthelme)
5. "Interpreter" - 2:39 (Erickson)
6. "As She Weeps" - 7:24 (Lynch/Sort Sol)
7. "Indian Summer" - 4:49 (Valentin Jørgensen/Hybel)

Personnel

Sort Sol

• Lars Top-Galia – guitar
  Lead guitar
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• Peter Peter – guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Steen Jørgensen – vocals
  Singing
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• Knud Odde – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Tomas Ortved – drums
  Drum kit
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Additional musicians and production

• Elisabeth G. Nielsen – backing vocals
  Vocal harmony
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   on "A Knife For The Ladies"
• Flemming Nygaard Madsen – cello
  Cello
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   on "A Knife For The Ladies"
• Torsten "Metalstein" Hvas – handclaps
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• 4-eyed Thomas – production
  Record producer
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• Thomas Brekling – mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Ulf Lindqvist – mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Peter Brander – engineering
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• Flemming Naumann – engineering
  Audio engineering
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