The Battery Farm: FLIES
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Launched 18th November
Loud as fuck gutter punks The Battery Farm lastly land their anticipated debut album which is a darkish journey right into a freakish world of in your face uneasiness with a bitter twist of warped funk. Wayne AF Carey slums it a bit…
The Moston lads have achieved good. Crawling out from the chrysalis of their earlier band The Madding Crowd and morphing into the unstoppable stay juggernaut of The Battery Farm. Since I first heard their early single Ninety Seven Ninety One I’ve been watching this band develop with curiosity. It’s not been a straightforward highway however they’ve weathered the Covid storm with a whole lot of laborious graft and gifted us with two glorious EP’s in Infinite Unstoppable Ache and Soiled Den’s March OF Struggling, all of the art work and shenanigans put collectively by the power of Ben and Dom Corry. But don’t give all of them the credit score, because the spine of Paul Worrall and Sam Parkinson are important to the entire sound. When you’ve seen them stay you’ll know what I’m on about…
This complete report is a few form of twisted idea album revolving round flies and it’s a sinister but straightforward pay attention should you like your loud quiet grunge punk with a Northern Manc twinge. They’ve additionally bought one thing completely different from the flock of bands which are rising from this nice scene for the time being. There’s the imagery. Ben along with his raging tongues out lyrics and Fly masks, Dom along with his distinctive guitar sound that stands out from the norm, elephantine in sound and wonky as fuck as he rampages across the stage in his Neil Sedaka cardigan like a person possessed. A assist slot with Evil Blizzard final yr has raised the stakes to the purpose that they’re again once more with the masked loons for this years annual Blizzmass.
What I like about this album is that they’ve not lifted something from their two EP’s and reworked a few of the earlier stuff like Crude Oil Water which is a crunching tune ramped as much as eleven and the manufacturing is startling, as is the superb stay favorite Poet Boy which nonetheless sounds nice at present. The opener of the album from the FLIES trilogy is filled with intense rage and it builds to an enormous ranting climax with a bang. Wood Spoon quantity has a correct funked up bass groove and a few astonishing guitar work that’s actually on the market and hits the goal.
The 2 new tracks All the things Will Be Okay (a stand out) and Disdaingain are completely completely different in distinction, like a yin and yang to your ears. The latter being moody and goth like with a cracking bassline and foreboding doom and the previous a masterclass in cease begin punk rage that I’ve but to see carried out stay. Ben kindly explains with a observe by observe run down under…
FLIES
“The opener. The primary tune. Monitor one. FLIES is certainly one of 3 ‘Flies’ tracks on the album lyrically based mostly on the identical poetic construction that make up the backbone of the album. It features primarily as an intro and dumps you bang in the course of the Human Swarm, the screaming dystopia the place all of us, within the filth of somebody’s diabolical corruption and our personal unintentional creation, stay, belong and, a technique or one other, die.”
A Working Class Lad
“The primary single taken from FLIES. Put collectively by me and Dom on a sunny afternoon in Ancoats, A Working Class Lad is in regards to the determined try to discover a place on this world, resulting in the cataclysmic realisation that perhaps there isn’t one for everybody. An try to return to phrases with current between social lessons and to ask who decides whether or not one is a fraud or not. What’s the working class archetype? What’s the center class archetype? What occurs whenever you don’t match both of these moulds? A bloody ripping Rock tune, in all probability.”
Crude Oil Water
“An outdated favorite re-recorded, revamped and souped proper up, our producer David Radahd-Jones actually involves the fore on this in that he has helped us wring each ounce of savage, unhinged magnificence from this observe. I like Dom for a lot of issues, chief amongst them being the guitar sound on this, which he crafted from scratch – as he does every little thing – on his trusty, battered outdated Boss ME-70 pedal. He is among the greatest, most progressive, most fun guitarists on the planet and that could be a truth.”
Wood Spoon Quantity
“The 2nd single. A tune about radicalisation. Or is it a couple of Wood Spoon? Who can say? This tune is totally pushed by the thunderous rhythm mixture that’s Paul Worrall and Sam Parkinson. Don’t get me improper, they’ve loads of huge moments all through the album, nevertheless that is the tune the place you may hear each Paul and Sam’s particular person fingerprints most audibly. We put this tune collectively within the observe room, pushed by Sam’s unstoppable beat. From there it has flourished right into a tune fairly not like anything we have now, one which hasn’t actually modified since we put it collectively. All we’ve achieved is add a bridge and a little bit of instrumentational construction. Magic.”
In The Stomach Of The Beast
“The oldest tune on the album. This was really first practiced, although by no means performed stay, by mine and Dom’s outdated band The Madding Crowd again in 2016, although not with almost the ferocity it radiates now. Dom wrote the lyrics to this tune; I’ve by no means requested him what it’s about however the wordplay is terrific and one thing that, when he does write lyrics, he’s actually good at. I like rolling ‘the one situation that could possibly be the answer to that existential ache’ across the auld jaws.”
((flies))
“The center level of the album. Silent however for the phrases. The darkest night time of all. We’re heading deep into the woods now.”
All the things Will Be OK
“A tune about doing the fitting factor despite the fact that you already know it’s the improper factor. Does that make sense? I wrote this kind of on the spot sooner or later when me and Dom had been writing collectively. Paul illuminates this observe with what might be my favorite bass line of his (there are lots to select from). This tune marks the ultimate calm earlier than the pulverisation (is {that a} phrase?) that’s the final strait of the album.”
Poet Boy
“Ah, Poet Boy. An outdated favorite and one of many first songs I wrote for the band. This has all the time, collectively been certainly one of our favorite songs to play stay, and right here Dave has actually captured the frantic, seething depth the tune is of course endowed with in a stay setting. This is among the most ferocious tracks on the album, so naturally we put it out because the third single. A tune about misogyny, coercive management and disgusting softboi prowlers. Might all of them burn ceaselessly.”
DisdainGain
“Vicious, gnarly, relentless. DisdainGain is a giant, nasty monster that half of the band hated proper up till we determined to report it. I’ve a sense everybody loves it now. Dom jad the riff kicking about for years and we labored it into a few songs earlier than selecting this one. The lyrics had been written within the wake of Steven Dymond’s dying after showing on the Jeremy Kyle present and touch upon our never-ending urge for food for the blood and bullying of poor, weak individuals within the public sphere.”
I Am A Man
“One other one of many first songs me and Dom wrote for The Battery Farm. That is certainly one of three tracks that had been performed at our first gig approach again in 2019. We launched a model of this as our 2nd ever single, nevertheless this model is loads quicker and extra highly effective, and displays how the tune has naturally developed over time. Lyrically, the tune is about males’s psychological well being and the fixed battle in opposition to weak spot and dying that comes with it. It doesn’t should be this troublesome.”
flies
“The ultimate observe. The dreadful calm after the storm. I poured all my fears into this – the worry of a world battle, the worry of a nuclear apocalypse, the worry of that The Human Swarm is in its dying throes. That bone-chilling, brain-pounding worry. How do you come to phrases with that? How do you make sense of it? You’ll be able to’t. You simply suck up the shit and take care of it. Perhaps that’s probably the most horrifying factor of all.”
An exhilarating debut from a bunch of grafters who’re decided to get their music out to the lots. They match into their very own style and I reckon in a yr or in order that they’ll be some younger weapons on the market attempting to duplicate their sound to create a brand new wave of sound like historical past repeating on the attractive music scene of our occasions. A one off distinctive group of Northern gutter punk bastards…
Reside dates:
Saturday nineteenth November – 33 Oldham St, Manchester – SOLD OUT.
Friday sixteenth December – Gorilla, Manchester – Purchase tickets right here.
Phrases by Wayne Carey, Critiques Editor for Louder Than Battle. His creator profile is right here
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