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Album Review: Battles – La Di Da Di

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TOMAHAWK, the long-dormant group comprising Duane Denison of The Jesus Lizard, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn of Mr Bungle, and Helmet/Battles’ John Stanier, mark their grand return, following an eight-year gap from their previous release, with new single “Business Casual”; signalling their greatly-anticipated forthcoming album, Tonic Immobility. The foundation of “Business Casual” is laid by …

TRIPPY NYC art-rock outfit Battles have dropped a cosmic animation for their track “Sugar Foot”, featuring the gliding vocal talents of none other than Yes’s Jon Anderson, and visually referring more than a little to past galaxial greats such as Battle Of The Planets. The song is taken from their latest LP Juice B Crypts, which is …

What makes a remix? Take the best bits of your stuff and plenty of my stuff and make it sound like ME or take the essence of mine and the heart of yours to make something new? I know what I go for, the remix that sounds like collaboration, made from respect, taking the music …

On the cusp of his new album ‘The Memory Clears the Space for What’s Needed’ via Blurred Recordings on 13th April 2018, former Gravenhurst sideman Paul Nash, aka North Sea Navigator recently released the beautiful and brilliant ‘Pure modulations in space and time’ track which peeked our interest, and having heard the album, it’s one …

Last month New York’s Battles released album number three, ‘La Di Da Di’. With the departure of their lead singer, their latest collection of songs is an instrumental ride of an album, infusing rock and electronic music in a way only they can. Now the band release a video from track number two from the …

Listening to Battles is like plugging into the mainframe of some futuristic generator. You are instantly pulled into this stream-of-consciousness robot groove that acts as some sort of virtual yellow brick road to meet the fantastical Oz. But Oz isn’t some little man that flew in on a hot air balloon. No, Oz is this …