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[OIL012] Symptom

by Battle

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    Battle's debut album Symptom on 12" 180g heavy black vinyl. With artwork you can keep finding new, hidden images in (by Alf Lenni Erlandsen), download codes and lyric sheets.

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1.
Symptom 04:31
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2.
Drive-By Love 03:50
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3.
Alive Beat 02:38
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4.
Dog Tag 03:11
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5.
Life In Mono 05:09
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6.
Warm Feelings 01:20
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7.
Baby's Arms 03:14
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8.
MDE 02:30
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9.
Reprise 01:17
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10.
You Said It 03:22
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11.
Sun 03:28
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about

Battle are a hybrid animal: Their music is at once absolutely alien, and down-to-earth and familiar. The Copenhagen four-piece amplifies the sound of a Danish bodega — the smoke-filled old-style Danish equivalents to pubs — for the big stage: garage rock with sing-song melody. It’s utterly unpretentious, wild and captivating.
Battle tackle everyday themes, but not in a classical sense: these aren’t stories from the street – these are personal and universal stories of madness and love – everyday issues of mental health, loneliness, dreams and expectations. Themes that are still, sadly, shrouded in taboo, but that are nonetheless prevalent. Multifaceted and colourful in their variety, but commonplace and real for many of us.

Having released several EP's and a mini-album in Denmark, Battle were ripe for a change: their debut album Symptom is by far their most ambitious effort to date. Recorded in the old DR studios at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen with producer Tommy Kamp Vestergaard, the band went from duo to quartet to realise their new ideas. The result is a record utterly unpretentious, wild and captivating. On Symptom, lyricist Ulrich Frydensberg's songs that deal with the meeting between the complexities of people's inner lives faced with the challenges of a modern, urban setting are brought to life with roaring guitars, full choir arrangements, saxophone (courtesy of Danish jazz veteran Jesper Zeuthen) and drunk-sounding organs.

credits

released November 27, 2015

Ulrich Frydensberg - vocals, guitar
Jacob Koefoed - drums, backing vocals
Mads Graves P. - organ, backing vocals
Jens Skovgaard - bass, backing vocals

Also featuring:
Jesper Zeuthen - saxophone
Silke Seidler - choir
Sebastian Zieler - choir

Recorded and mixed by Tommy Kamp Vestergaard
Mastering by Morten Bue

Artwork by Lenni Alf Erlandsen
Layout by Sebastian Zieler

Supported financially by The Danish Music Publishers Association / Koda’s Cultural Contributions

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