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'Mirrored' - Debut LP from Battles

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I made a topic about his Central Market album, sank without trace.

I'M NOT BITTER.

Seriously, it's sad news, but hopefully Ian Williams might come out of his shell a bit. I wouldn't mind hearing them as a purely instrumental trio.

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I made a topic about his Central Market album, sank without trace.

I'M NOT BITTER.

Seriously, it's sad news, but hopefully Ian Williams might come out of his shell a bit. I wouldn't mind hearing them as a purely instrumental trio.

yeah I think it'll be a good thing in the long run. As long as they don't end up scrapping the band.

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New track: Ice Cream feat Matias Aguayo

http://soundcloud.com/weallwantsome1/battles-ice-cream-feat-matias

I like it a lot (although I can see it being quite polarising), Aguayo is a perfect vocalist for them - gloriously silly and a typically fucked up groove. They played this the last time I saw them in 09 with Braxton and it was musically identical so it's not a stylistic change post his leaving as I've read elsewhere.

Managed to get a ticket for their ICA show next month, super-stoked about their ATP curation too. Can see them having good taste, and Boredoms are bound to play :)

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I've given it quite a few spins since yesterday now and liking it but I am finding the lack of Braxtons vocals more telling than I'd expected; after giving the debut album a lot of time recently, some of the instrumental tracks on the new one (as undeniably musically thrilling as they are) feel like they miss that anchoring that the vocals offered. This is all early doors though and my mind is bound to change when I get more familiar with the tunes.

Sweetie & Shag is my favourite track at the moment, rhythms for days. The Eye track has really grown on me too - at first I was disappointed it wasn't some transcendent interstellar drum trance odyssey but it's so much damn fun when the groove kicks in.

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Hmm. I have tickets to see 'em that included the album preordered on CD but I'm not really getting this so far. The first track gets me right up for it and then the rest feels like a steady decline. Maybe it'll come good for me but I'm three or four listens through which is usually long enough.

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I LOVE the change in Sundome at 2.43. And then the bass is like 'doooo-a-da. Dadadaa-do-doooo. Doooo-da. Dededede-do-DAAAA.' And my boss is standing over me going 'shouldn't you be doing some work' and I'm like 'NO DEAL'.

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Saw them live yesterday at London's ICA. 100% Gloss Drop material, and it felt very much like a proper show (think they've been playing some low-key Europe dates in preparation for a full US tour). Very good indeed regardless, barely any gaps in over an hour of playing and although (understandably) not quite as tight as per usual they still put on a hell of a show. All the vocal parts of the album had a video screen accompaniment, which I think Williams was controlling from of his two Macbooks - fucking around with and looping on occasion. Ice Cream bangs HARD live, it's a total anthem.

Ian Williams is the coolest motherfucker alive (complete with 45 degree angled dual keyboards, he barely played the guitar), John Stanier sweats like a pig and Dave Konopka has a ridiculous effects pedal board. The amount of live looping and shit was insane. Go see when they hit your town.

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