Ascension LP, by Battery Hens

Ascension LP

by Battery Hens

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Dave Ballantyne This was my No 1 alum of 2019, post punk guitar noise done right and with astounding intensity! I have not been so. Immediately and profoundly impacted by an album or band as much as I was by this for decades. Have listened to it almost daily since it came out and I am still loving it! Utterly incredible. Favorite track: Monster.

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1.	Techno Sex 03:42	buy track
2.	Run 03:14	buy track
3.	Tax Haven 03:04	buy track
4.	Monster 05:47	buy track
5.	Ascension 04:51	buy track
6.	451 04:08	buy track
7.	The Agony 08:59	buy track
8.	Good Slime 02:45	buy track
9.	I Am The Ooze 03:11	buy track
10.	Discharge 03:11	buy track
11.	Piss Break 01:26	buy track
12.	Creature Comforts 02:20	buy track
13.	Techno Sex Reprise 01:02	buy track
14.	Lovely Violence 01:05	buy track
15.	No Mercy 01:34	buy track
16.	Lobotomobile 05:20	buy track

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Portsmouth-based “exploratory punks” Battery Hens – release their debut full-length, Ascension today. Throughout, Battery Hens – Matt Chuter (vocals/guitar), Matthew Tiller (guitar/vocals), Rob Day (bass) and Joff Reid (drums) - take an iconoclastic approach to guitar music. Pulling and tearing away traditional punk arrangements, the band stitches them back together to create an abrasive meditation on death, political structures, nihilism and transformation.

Ascension was self-recorded in various DIY spaces intermittently over a long period of change. Bereavements, fatherhood, career responsibilities and health issues disrupted and informed the albums gestation. The result is a sprawling artefact of a difficult time set against the backdrop of a country gone to shit.

Drawing from the worlds of punk, jazz, noise, prog, metal and new wave, the band abandon conventional song structures in favour of complex, varied and intense composition. Extreme repetition (Monster, Dishcarge, The Agony) effect laden noise (Techno Sex) stream of conscious style elasticity (Lovely Violence, No Mercy) and unconventional time signatures (Creature Comforts, Tax Haven) come together to create a claustrophobic, paranoid and occasionally even cathartic patchwork of songs. Clocking in at just under an hour, the album is intended to be heard in one sitting.

Due to on going personal and health issues the band are currently on hiatus from live shows but hope to continue making raw, challenging and thought provoking music.

Influences – Swans, Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Melt Banana, The Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Lightning Bolt, Scott Walkers, Gang Of Four & assorted 70s post-punk

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released October 31, 2019

Written by Battery Hens (Chuter, Tiller, Day, Reid)
Recorded & Mixed by Rob Day @ Home
Written 2015, Recorded 2016-2017
All Rights Reserved. Copyright Battery Hens 2019

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Pessimistic music for optimists.

Post-punk/noise/jazz/math/whatever

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