o shit. I like his solo stuff but not nearly as much as I like Battles, yet I can't imagine being too excited about anything they do without them. Oh well.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 6 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah we really needed more chipmunk vocals on this new album
― QUEEN LATFH (LOLK), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
and plunky fake rhodes arpeggios
― QUEEN LATFH (LOLK), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah ppl are making a big assumption about what each member brings to the table
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 August 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
So I guess they're intending to tour as a three piece? I'm game I guess.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still willing to give them a chance, but his contributions were probably the most distinctive element on the first album.
― Moodles, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Bummed. Even though I still think they are capable of interesting stuff without him, he did bring a much needed charismatic presence when I saw them live.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
New album details released. Very interested in the guests.
GLOSS DROP6th / 7th June 2011
1. Africastle2. Ice Cream (Featuring Matias Aguayo)3. Futura4. Inchworm5. Wall Street6. My Machines (Featuring Gary Numan)7. Dominican Fade8. Sweetie & Shag (Featuring Kazu Makino)9. Toddler10. Rolls Bayce11. White Electric12. Sundome (Featuring Yamantaka Eye)
― mh, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yay for kazu!
― he do the waka lyfe (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
in retrospect, it's kinda funny how "mirrored" got as much hype as it did
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I first saw them when they just had the EPs out. Those get criminally underrated.
― mh, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
still one of the best shows i've ever seen
― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
eYe!!!!!!
― jan špankwajer.com (diamonddave85), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
guest lineup looks spectacular
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
website by carles http://bttls.com/gloss-drop/
― jan špankwajer.com (diamonddave85), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
haha.
so, no tyondai on this, right? even so, great guest lineup, yeah. (gary numan!)
and the EPs are still my fave battles material.
― original bgm, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
ep c/b that is. didn't like the tonto one much.
― original bgm, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the EPs ruled, but I loved Mirrored too. Slightly disappointed about no Tyondai but those guests certainly look promising enough to make up for it.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I dont care less about the guests (I dont even know who they are Numan aside) but I've always been a Battles fan (shit I'm wearing a Battles tshirt as I type) and Mirrored was a great album.
And I have to stress I was SO not into all the Atlas hype at the time, that all completely escaped me. Took me a long time to get into em but I did.
― berk psychosis (Trayce), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
eYe and Aguayo very interesting to me
― mh, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Hope they tour Australia again. They were tight as fuck when I saw them in 2007.
― berk psychosis (Trayce), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I mean, "Atlas" is probably the sixth or seventh best track on Mirrored and I still love it to death. But Mirrored was also my number one album of 2007, so I can't really undersell how much I love it.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
AguaeYeo!!!
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Trayce, Yamantaka Eye is the guy from the Boredoms, Aguayo was one of the two dudes in Closer Musik and Kazu is in Blonde Redhead <- all legends imo
― ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah ok, I should have known about the BR bit at least guh.
― berk psychosis (Trayce), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
BTW fellow new yorkers, Tyondai leading a 30-piece ensemble on March 7th in his own composition "Central Market" plus pieces by Andriessen, Adams and Burhans.
http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/ts-2011-tyondai-braxton-a-wordless-music-orchestra
― Ban Hammerskjold (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
So the track with Matias Aguayo is a horrible mess
― Number None, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
bummer. Not actually that into the idea of their new record, but am psyched about seeing them live.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 10 March 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/15/battles-mirrored-2007/
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 15 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuopwlIXYlY
― 乒乓, Sunday, 15 September 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
yes! also noticed that. get that dodge money battles!
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 15 September 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
these guys at studio a in miami 2008 was one of the best shows i've ever seen
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 15 September 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5ltxihivA
― Let's talk about Bucks baby (MaresNest), Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
New album is pretty fabulous. Gloss Drop kind of passed me by, but this is great - I might even prefer it front-to-back to Mirrored.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 09:06 (nine years ago) link
This is really playful, feels much lighter-of-touch than some of the early stuff. Feels quite jazzy, which there were always leanings towards, I think.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah I really enjoyed this on my first listen and I too had sort of fallen off with Gloss Drop
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
great video up there^
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
i'm liking this record more and more. at first sounded like they were on autopilot, but idk, i need to get over thinking they were crippled by tyondai leaving
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
imo gloss drop was about them getting over tyondai leaving. this is back to heavy instrumental jams and it's sounding great.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
IMO Gloss Drop > Mirrored
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah, didn't they have the record basically in the can when tyondai left, and then replaced all of his parts and vox? i remember being so stoked by video of their set at the Warp anniversary show in 2009, "Ice Cream" particularly, and then the record was just such a let down, tyondai really fucked them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJw1Noawfg
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
the sound on Gloss Drop was really flat
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
new album Juice B Crypts out October 18. Dave Konopka is also out.
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5d4acf42a10bea00085b7fef/master/pass/Battles.jpg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
Uh... John Anderson shows up on this record?!?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
I guess one upside of being a duo is that there's a lot of room for the drums to sound huge
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link