This is my second post on the experimental rock band, Battles, a band whose music conjures adjectives like frenetic, technical, humorous, or, for a non-adjective, “Hey, what’s that dope ass sound you’re listening to?”
Borrowed from their Twitter (don’t know the photo credit)
Battles use a lot of the same sounds they employed in Mirrored for Gloss Drop, employing both analog instruments and electronics, but this time they did it without their fourth member, Tyondai Braxton, who created the high-pitched, off-kilter vocals on Mirrored. Now a trio, Battles brought on the same energetic and techinically-impressive syncopation as before yet it is cleaner this go around, as if the band found that sweet spot together at high-tempos, deep within the math. Gloss Drop leans more towards progressive pop than their previous album which makes it a fun listening experience. That is why I’ve chosen it as an album great for work. Building a Powerpoint you don’t want to do? Put this on and you’ll find yourself saying, “Not only am I going to knock this shit out of the park, I may even do some wipe screen effects just because I’m me and I can get away with it. What’s that network drive, you won’t let me save this because it’s read-only for some unknown reason all of a sudden? Kiss my ass.”
Or something like that. I don’t know what you do.
P.S. Wipe effect