About this product

Product Identifiers

Record LabelWarp

EAN0801061015626

eBay Product ID (ePID)12052262690

Product Key Features

Era2000s

Run Time3112 Sec

FormatCD

Release Year2008

InstrumentBass Guitar

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Alternative, Rock

StyleNeo-Prog, Experimental Rock, Post-Rock

TypeAlbum

ArtistBattles

Release TitleMirrored

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

DistributionIntegral/Cinram Novum

Number of Tracks11

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States, Wales

ReviewsRanked #9 in The Wire's "Top Ten Records of the Year 2007" -- "On-a-dime virtuosity combined with sever compression, to claustrophobic but exhilarating effect.", "They stretch their instrumental prowess wherever their textural whims take them, often by trapping melodies inside an intricate instrumental web where rhythmic shifts signify the verses.", "Mirrored Is Propulsive and Ragged, Matching Teutonic Firmness with Drunken Collapse.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This New York quartet gives ancient prog-rock moves a makeover -- and a kick in the pants.", "This time Battles sound like they're actually having fun, relishing the opportunity to stretch out over the length of an album and sounding an awful lot like King Sunny Ade interpreting early 70s Yes...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "For rock that's both fist-pumping and forward-looking, this album suggests that Battles have few peers.", 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Battles have minimized the ambient filler and added some bizarre processed vocalizing and increased electronic counterpoint to their already bafflingly contrapuntal, loop-heavy attack...", "They executed a radical and complex synthesis of Krautrock, experimental jazz and Queens Of The Stone Age."

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo