battles: ?
Is it just me, or is Battles a little overrated? It seems like any emerging band that plays weird time signatures, experiments with effects, and uses atypical song structures, is all of the sudden God’s latest gift to the music scene. Mozart reincarnated, or something like that.
I don’t get it. It just seems like a bit of a rehash to me. What happened to the songs man? It used to be about the songs!
tags: battles, music scene
February 14th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I didn’t know that anyone rated this stuff in the first place.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
No, no one’s literally rating anything (well, besides Pitchfork — which means quite a great deal to a lot of people). They’ve just become Indie/prog/post rock poster boys and I feel it’s unwarranted.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I would pick Holy Fuck over them.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Pitchfork? Pssh, the cool kids read Stereogum now.