Battles

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Total Tracks: 5   Total Length: 28:38

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KatwomanProgger

The 2 CDs on Emusic are not their best work they are EPs. They have Don Caballero's ex-guitarist Ian Williams, but Battles is no Don Cab if you're into Math Rock.

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Download all but BTTLS

aceinfo06

If you want to save a credit, and 13 minutes of your life per album-spin, skip the track BTTLS. It's atleast 10 minutes of *just* mildly feathered snare drums or something that sounds like a cricket. The other tracks kick, remind me of Hella's Hold Your Horse Is.

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original

digitalspys

Give the first track a go. Like the man said, theres something not right about time. So what if it's a minute short. If you can't come back after that then it's not for you. But in my opinion, brilliant. Don't know what the rest is like yet as I'm still on the first track.

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Damn fine.

blixco

This is what modern music should sound like. Really excellent, layered, rare rhythms and bizarre melodies, better-then-prog-rock arpeggiated craziness, and the best use of effects ever in a rock band. Most alternative "modern" rock sounds like anything that could have been recorded in a 1960s studio. This sounds like it was recorded in Bob Lazar's garage in the future.

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The track times are off

ShitbagFucknuckle

There are discrepancies between the track times mentioned on the site and the ones downloaded.

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Didnt know what to expect

ahhhhhhhh

This album is sick, listen to the whole thing. Maybe it will hit you maybe it wont.

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Battles offers up more instrumental math rock on the band’s B EP on Dim Mak. The quartet grooves and messes with those grooves throughout the 30 minutes of the EP. A highlight is “IPT2,” which Battles gives an interesting 5ive Style-ish groove, mixing in solid, funky drums with dub-style guitar and keyboard melodies, accentuated with handclaps. Another highlight is the closer, “DANCE” — spazz funk with tight rhythms from the drums, guitar, and keyboards (picture the Meters playing on the moon). Where these tracks succeed, the lengthy fourth track, “BTTLS,” crushes the highlights of this EP. Being the longest track at 12 minutes, “BTTLS” wanders into experimental ambience and glitch that seemingly goes nowhere, leaving the listener frustrated and wondering why Battles chose to stick this in the middle of an EP. Battles’ third EP in three months, B is another sketchbook revealing where the group could end up in the future. – Francis Arres

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