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The Ascension

Glenn Branca

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Released: Mar 1981
Label: Acute Records
The Ascension is Glenn Branca's second album after forming/disbanding short-lived projects The Static and Theoretical Girls. Much like its predecessor, the equally visionary Lesson No. 1, it's a product of the composer fusing No Wave's monochromatic dissonance/brutalism, sweaty rock and roll propulsion, and the densely layered "texturalism" of the minimalism movement. It makes sense that a young Lee Ranaldo played guitar in Branca's ensemble at the time: Such pieces as "Structure" and the anthemic "Light Field (In Consonance)" totally influenced Confusion Is Sex-era Sonic Youth.
- Justin Farrar
Glenn Branca - The Ascension 2008-04-01
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    Lesson No.2
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    12:38
    The Spectacular Commodity
    The Spectacular Commodity
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    3:09
    Structure
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    Lightfield (In Consonance)
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    The Ascension
    The Ascension
℗ 2003 Acute Records