Battles are back. The alt-rock three piece’s new album La Di Da Di is coming September 18th on Warp and found the band re-examining what the band is. Dave Konopka, Ian Williams and John Stanier found the answer might lie in repetition, in motorik music that drives along in a looping fashion but bleeds beyond the beats and rhythm in the band’s typical polychromatic style. That’s the suggestion from new track ‘The Yabba’, which is essentially to Irish ears, a slowed-down, more detailed version of what Adebisi Shank did on album two.
It’s still very much math-rock but managing to avoid the obvious at every turn.
Battles are playing Electric Picnic.
https://soundcloud.com/battles/the-yabba
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
