Battlestations - Inform (2020) EN

The Belgian Battlestations for me is one of the more mysterious and less appreciated projects of the European post-rock-slash-ambient map. And after the very well-done album Vixit it's time for their forth one called Inform.

The project's music is based on strings and keys but another important element are those more pugnacious moments that transform the whole thing into heavily industrial music that reminds me of those abandoned factories of the Western Europe. This atmosphere is present all over the album - if not occupying the foreground, than lurking in the nervous backgrounds like in Steeper Angles or another key-ambient masterpiece, L'abîme. Although this is definitely not so subtle music, the words quoted on their page say a lot about the project's nature: "If you listen for long enough, you don't know whether what you're hearing is silence, or whether there's some kind of underlying sound, in the distance..."

Inform costs 7 EUR.

Battlestations - Vixit (2017) EN

Check: Steeper Angles

Country: Belgium

Genre: industrial post-rocking ambient

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