THE BATTERY FARM o god
THE BATTERY FARM O God Rare Vitamin 26/07/24 The Battery Farm find their gutter-punk vibe shifting slowly towards the nine concentric circles of Hell on bleak new single O God. It’s an unsettling listen that’s mired in existential dread, like Alice peering through the looking glass and realising all is not what it should be, or the protagonist’s inability to feel emotion in Camus’ literary classic, L’Etranger. Marching drums precede a stuttering beat that welcomes the listener with an implied death waltz, replete with snaking bass-line and stabs of dissonant six-string noise. Benji’s vocal exclamations pierce the trap-infused rhythms across the verse as he lures you into a conversation with his maker about purpose, meaning, and dogma. You can feel the unease as instrumentation pulls against vocal cadence before a dramatic pause provides just enough air for a whispered plea to escape the downward spiral. And then… the release. Molten guitar tones smother a doom-laden riff as ...