Glenn Branca: Ascension Vinyl LP Speaker Stands A lush suite of beautiful

A lush suite of beautiful songs

the songwriting grander

super tight breaks and string-drenched sleaze composed by the library master

but it did boast consistent

folk and soul into the band's psychedelic stew

Glenn Branca: Ascension Vinyl LP Speaker Stands A lush suite of beautiful"Glenn Branca's first full length album The Ascension is a colossal achievement. After touring much of 1980 with an all star band featuring four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo) along with Jeffrey Glenn on bass and Stephan Wischerth on drums, Branca took his war torn group into a studio in Hell's Kitchen to record five incendiary compositions. Originally released in the