To begin 2016, the unlikely meeting of electronics and
percussion creates a beautiful three minute pop song. Battles suddenly became big in 2007, including a memorable
performance of Atlas on the Jools Holland Show in the UK, and what
makes this particular song and the album it comes from stand is the importance
of all the instruments, from voice to guitars, in adding to the rhythm. There
is an alien yet utterly hummable beat to all the songs off the album Mirrored, math rock which is yet
possible to dance to. It also helps that, with his ridiculously high snare
cymbal, the band had the drummer from Helmet
amongst the group.
Bizarrely I never went beyond the first album despite
adoring it. If there's something to rectify its catching up with the two other
LPs they made up to date.
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