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Batillus: "Concrete"

At the risk of sounding sensationalist, the lead track from Concrete Sustain, the second album by Brooklyn quartet Batillus, is best summarized by one unlikely phrase: funky doom. It must have been tempting for drummer Geoff Summers to play this one straight, to pound slowly and steadily behind the crew's thick gray washes of guitar, bass and synthesizer. Instead, he chops the space like he’s in a wildly different group, cracking his snare in a loop of syncopation. You’ll need to reconsider that slow, simple headbang. That's not the only strange and fortunate choice Batillus makes here, either. Frontman Fade Kainer samples and resamples his voice, for instance, turning his throat-damage into a galley of demons and a wellspring of noise. Concrete Sustain was co-produced by the ever-busy Sanford Parker, who shows his studio hand by aiding and abetting smart tweaks to songs that otherwise might sound like standard mid-to-low-tempo marches.

[from Concrete Sustain; out 03/19/13 via Seventh Rule]

At the risk of sounding sensationalist, the lead track from Concrete Sustain, the second album by Brooklyn quartet Batillus, is best summarized by one unlikely phrase: funky doom. It must have been tempting for drummer Geoff Summers to play this one straight, to pound slowly and steadily behind the crew's thick gray washes of guitar, bass and synthesizer. Instead, he chops the space like he’s in a wildly different group, cracking his snare in a loop of syncopation. You’ll need to reconsider that slow, simple headbang. That's not the only strange and fortunate choice Batillus makes here, either. Frontman Fade Kainer samples and resamples his voice, for instance, turning his throat-damage into a galley of demons and a wellspring of noise. Concrete Sustain was co-produced by the ever-busy Sanford Parker, who shows his studio hand by aiding and abetting smart tweaks to songs that otherwise might sound like standard mid-to-low-tempo marches.

Batillus: "e;Concrete"e;

[from Concrete Sustain; out 03/19/13 via Seventh Rule]