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
Uh... John Anderson shows up on this record?!?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:04 (four 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 (four years ago) link