Batillus Concrete vinyl

While Andy Stott may be known for taking the path less travelled, not least on his most recent output, this should be a curveball release even to his keenest followers. Batillus are a doom metal band whose "Concrete" track appeared on the Concrete Sustain LP from earlier in the year. In Stott's hands the original becomes a tense mess of red-lining synth drones, degenerating kicks falling in a slow lurch and beyond the grave vocals made even scarier. It's as apocalyptic as you would expect from the mind that gave us the Passed Me By record, but it goes even further into sonic abrasion and uneasy ambience in keeping with the source material.

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