Battles are in themselves a supergroup consisting of Tyondai Braxton, David Konopka and Ian Williams have all sympathy for guitar and keyboard melodies. For the rhythm section is one of the drummers who I enjoy the most, in charge. John Stanier, known from Helmet and Tomahawk, shines in his work on the album. Its quite hip-hop and alternative-biased drumming makes virtually every song into something special. It has the same feel that he, like on any album of his opening acts (although he also does there always an excellent job), can operate freely.
Anyway, this group creates rhythmically as harmonious an atmospheric and extremely well thought-out sound.
A notable example I think that you will be kidnapped by the pieces in all worlds. One should look for in each song for a meaning, one should develop the quasi album.
The band's imagination while enough free space, thanks to the full banishing vocals. Although Singer Braxton is where quite a few points with (usually highly distorted) a vocal harmonies, but the fit just as another small piece of the puzzle in the big soundscapes one. Text is also not needed because the music speaks for itself. It even sounds as if the band wanted every listener encourage the music to give a distinct meaning. And as for me, I've got no problems with. The epic "Rainbows" sounds, if I had to describe it, like a ride on a rainbow of passes in all happy as sad facades of a circus. May sound crazy, but at least has shown me how deep music can penetrate into a that one imagines things like this. I find fascinating! No less fascinating is my personal favorite song of this album "Tonto". With its wonderfully moody guitar riff, it is the most melancholy song on "Mirrored" and you can just enter interpret everything in it, whether it is the memory of the good old days or real life pain. Alone of the rhythm and the massive diversion ago, impressed me "Tij", in which a John Stanier can sometimes shine really well and the rest of the band proves their entire wealth of ideas.
And as to these three songs, so Battles also act on the whole album. Whether rhythmically complex as in "Race: In" and "Snare hangar" or atmospheric and still going forward as "Atlas" and "Prismism".
Weaknesses not even stay on good albums like this of course. It exaggerate Battles sometimes, especially as regards the use of the vocal lines, a bit (example of this: "Ddiamondd"). Either these passages are repeated too often or try to distortion pedals to make very different sound. According to the motto "less is more" you could have acted such cases, however, it remains fortunately for exceptions.
Otherwise convinced the whole concoction in every aspect. Certainly one of the most interesting albums of the last decade. It will be interesting what comes out of this band yet so.
