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“Bataille” isn’t about words it’s all about pure release. It’s totally possible to listen to this song a thousand or so times and never really make out a single clear vocal, but it hardly matters.
At a time when the Men were at their most wonderfully schizophrenic, “Bataille” manages to harness all of the band's conflicting ambitions-doom, drone, punk, pop, and abject noise-and squeeze them into one track. Despite an opening riff that could almost trick you into thinking you were about to hear a druggier version of Motörhead’s “ Ace of Spades”-and the fact that the song sounds as if it might have been recorded inside an echo-filled cave lined with steel-“Bataille” is a kind of glorious post-punk explosion that manages to cram about 50 different musical ideas into four short screamy minutes. “Bataille”-from the band’s 2011 album Leave Home-is a blast of exquisitely blown out r-a-w-k that inexplicably takes its name from that of a famous French intellectual. The Men-aka NYC’s most inscrutable band-are currently five albums deep into a career that has zigzagged between scorched-earth punk rock to cacophonous hardcore guitar squalls a la Sonic Youth to jangly folk vibes and Grand Funk-style American classic rock (sometimes all on the same record).
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