Battles rar mirrored

The song feels nervously repetitive, like it's suffering from OCD. If you've seen Battles live, you've probably seen the phrase "ex-members of" written on the flyer, and so maybe none of this surprises you.

Braxton's put in time splitting the difference between IDM and avant-garde electronics; Konopka played with underrated indie instrumentalists Lynx, Stanier drummed for scholastic-metal pioneers Helmet; Williams finger-tapped for Don Caballero. But while there's certainly more than a shade of math rock's intricacy on Mirrored , tracks like the terse, tambourine-rattling quasi-funk of "Tonto" or Stanier's time-signature and tempo fuckery on the crescendo-crazed "Tij", the stern stuff is continually undercut by a vibe that's more romper room than po-faced.

The "hook" on "Race In" is a whistle-while-you-work chant that they're probably humming down at Fraggle Rock. The astounding "Rainbow" spins into dizzying Rube Goldberg corkscrews of keyboard, xylophone, and giddily speed-attenuated symphonic metal drums.

It sounds like the band is trying to recreate the Looney Tunes cartoon where Bugs and Daffy are dueling orchestra conductors, each driving their ensembles to crazier and crazier call-and-response peaks.

And what makes Mirrored 's merry melodies really stand out isn't the crazy quilt structures or needlepoint precision of the playing. It's the frenzied gibberish of Braxton's pitch-shifted and electronically processed vocals-- a kind of ecstatic robot that's speaking in cartoon tongues. When "Atlas" dropped a few months back, those vocals were a squeaky line in the sand for old fans, and across the internet, everyone had the same thought: "Why are Battles suddenly aping the Animal Collective?

Ahora me doy cuenta que este album es uno de los mejores que he escuchado en mi vida. No se nada acerca de composicion musical pero no se ocupa ser muy sabio en el tema para darse cuenta que es un verdadero lio. Un disco bastante innovador que vino a re acomodar muchas ideas en mi cabeza acerca de la musica. Las vocecillas chillantes estilo "Alvin y las ardillas" que normalmente odias, aqui se convierten en una parte fundamental, tanto es asi que, despues de escuchar una vez la cancion "Atlas" no podras sacarte esa voz de tu cabeza en un buen rato.

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