I listened to Mirrored a few weeks ago and was surprised at how cheesy and canned it was. I remember it being cool, even kind of edgy. Then again I used to love that Sufjan Stevens album.
― skip, Monday, 14 June 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
News from the future from ATP:
Monday August 9, 2010
We are sad to announce Battles will no longer be able to perform at Release the Bats in October this year. Please see the below statement from the band for a full explanation;
"Battles and Tyondai would like to let their fans know they have chosen to follow their own musical paths.
Due to Battles' ambitions of finishing their second studio album followed by commitments to a full touring schedule in 2011, and Tyondai's own commitments as a solo artist and his desire not to tour, both Battles and Tyondai have decided to move on without each other. It is a sad but amicable split.
Battles wishes Tyondai all the best"
― useless chamber, Friday, 6 August 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
:/
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 6 August 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
he was kinda the most interesting part
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
bummer
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
May as well put Battles out of its misery without Tyondai...
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
damn
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 August 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah we really needed more chipmunk vocals on this new album
― QUEEN LATFH (LOLK), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
and plunky fake rhodes arpeggios
― QUEEN LATFH (LOLK), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:05 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (ten years ago) link
yes! also noticed that. get that dodge money battles!
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 15 September 2013 17:22 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5ltxihivA
― Let's talk about Bucks baby (MaresNest), Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:58 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
great video up there^
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:42 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
IMO Gloss Drop > Mirrored
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:59 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (four years ago) link