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BATTLES - Mirrored
| Guardian | | After a string of intermittently brilliant EPs, these hi-tech New York instrumentalists finally release their first proper full-length, and with it propel themselves into quite another league. There was always something uniquely enticing in their amalgam of machine-code guitar hooks, electronics and brainy robotic rhythms, but a new sense of warped pop suss and a constant barrage of ear-catching ideas makes Mirrored all the more surprising and addictive....full text |
| | Lost At Sea magazine | | Instrumental music can be a difficult thing to enjoy for any length of time. There is something inherently captivating in the human voice, and vocals are generally the thing that make a listener want to come back and hear songs over and over. How many times have you listened to "5-4=Unity" from Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, or Spoon's "This Book Is A Movie" from their album Girls Can Tell? Probably not as many times as the other songs on those albums, the songs with vocals. Go ahead and check your iTunes play statistics, we've got time to wait for verification....full text |
| | Times Online | | Battles’ music has been described as “math rock”, which gives an indication of its intricate rhythms and the way that it is built up in layers....full text |
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