Battles Live @ Dissonanze 2007
Battles are an utterly unique quartet playing indefinable music, something close to an abstract math rock, and one of the most exciting live acts to crisscross the globe. They are drummer John Stanier (of seminal acts Helmet, The Mark of Cain and Tomahawk), guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams (of Don Caballero and Storm and Stress), guitarist David Konopka (of Lynx), and avant solo musician Tyondai Braxton (who has recently collaborated with Prefuse 73). Their first 3 EPs (dated 2004 but re-released as a two-disc set on Warp Records in early 2006) placed the band outside the orbit of any contemporaries, with their sprawling range of styles and sounds, labyrinthine rhythms and equilibrium-shifting textures. As Battles first proper album, MIRRORED (released by Warp in May 2007), showed to the world that their unflinching experimentations and metallic angles are still entirely intact, but a new melodic insight has manifested itself. Be ready.
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