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<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-11765" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Battlestations-300x297.jpg" alt="Battlestations" width="269" height="266" /></a><em>“one of those bands that is doing amazing things despite the fact that no one seems to have heard of them… drop whatever it is you are doing and go listen”</em> –<strong> Scene Point Blank</strong>

Battlestations interweave the subtle with the dramatic, the intimate with the cinematic, the introverted with the bombastic. Across their eclectic and atmospheric instrumental rock, industrial ambience is counterbalanced by beautiful piano melodies, eerie samples and lyrical guitar lines. The result is incredibly evocative music, complex in both its narratives and textural composition.

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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>The Death Of The Day</h4>
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August 2013

Melding elements of post-rock, ambient, industrial and prog, <i>The Death Of The Day</i> further refines Battlestations’ incredibly atmospheric and affecting musical output. The often dramatic shifts in mood are deftly handled, wielding enviable emotional weight.

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<h4>In a Cold Embrace</h4>
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April 2012
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Battlestations’ debut full-length is a masterfully crafted tableau, its scale and flow only fully apparent when the last note has faded. <i>In A Cold Embrace</i> is narratively rich music, realising the potential of the album format in a way that so much music misses. This is film as sound.

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<h4>Return / Mr. Abject</h4>
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December 2011
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This 11-minute opus is an exercise in urgency and restraint. Layers of guitars slowly thicken over an insistent beat as an atmosphere of paranoia takes over. As with every Battlestations song 'Return / Mr. Abject' has striking narrative detours that add another level of depth to the listening experience.

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<h4>Battlestations</h4>
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June 2011
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Battlestations' self-titled debut EP is such a wonderfully sprawling and complex piece of work that distinguishing individual songs within the whole soon becomes meaningless. Comprising three tracks, two of which are over 18 minutes long, <i>Battlestations</i> presents a shifting instrumental narrative that effortlessly moves between dystopia and hope.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Little is known about Battlestations other than the basic facts: formed in Brussels, Belgium in 2009; released two albums (<em>Battlestations</em> and <em>In A Cold Embrace</em>) and two EPs (<em>Return/Mr. Abject</em> and <em>The Death Of The Day</em>); collaboration with Joe Dorsey on the Involved project. However, this shroud of anonymity feels fitting when listening to their enigmatic music. It often feels too big to attach to singular identities, and the atmosphere and mystique surrounding the songs suspends them, weightless, into a listening space unmoored from conventional reference points.

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<h3>News</h3>
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<h2>Reviews</h2>
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<h3>Music Videos</h3>
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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Battlestations music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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