Battles
Mirrored 2LP

Double Vinyl repress housed in a Gatefold Sleeve with Poster and Download. Few albums can match Battles' Warp debut for innovation coupled with accessibility. On 'Mirrored', Ian Williams, Dave Konopka and Tyondai Braxton found the subverted soul of glam, pushed it through the avant-machine (Reich, Riley), grew some overdriven metal guitar chops, listened to a whole lot of African music and consorted with the Aphex devil. It might sound like a mess written down, but the way the band pull these disparate influences together makes for some of the most continually thrilling music, even when considered several years down the line. 'Atlas' must be one of the strangest and catchiest instrumental pop songs ever made, and there are plenty of other thrills to be found here, like the playfully glinting vocal abstractions of 'Tonto' or the twists and turns of 'Rainbow'.

NEW / Released in 2007 / Reissue 2016

Tracklist:

A1 Race:In

A2 Atlas

A3 Ddiamondd

B1 Tonto

B2 Leyendecker

B3 Rainbow

C1 Bad Trails

C2 Prismism

C3 Snare Hanger

D1 Tij

D2 Race:Out