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Reviews

Battles: Tonto + EP

By Dan Raper

A fine follow-up to one of the full length albums of the year includes remixes by the Field and Four Tet [21 December 2007]

Battles

By Vijith Assar

History will look back on "math rock" with as much ridicule as it does Gwar and nearly all musical taxonomies ending in "-core." But what about artists with a genuine sense of mathematic structure? [9 July 2007]

Battles: Mirrored

Unexpected threads of melody make listening to this math-rock debut an absolute pleasure. [30 May 2007]