{"id":2447268,"date":"2019-08-07T10:19:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868466"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:19:01","slug":"hear-battles-colorful-new-art-funk-track-with-liquid-liquid-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-battles-colorful-new-art-funk-track-with-liquid-liquid-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Battles\u2019 Colorful New Art-Funk Track With Liquid Liquid Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Futuristic NYC avant-rockers Battles<\/a> have announced the upcoming release of their fourth album, Juice B Crypts.<\/em> Due in October via Warp, the record finds the band scaling back to the duo of guitarist-keyboardist Ian Williams and drummer John Stanier, following the departure of bassist Dave Konopka in 2018. Much like the group\u2019s second LP, 2011\u2019s Gloss Drop,<\/em> Juice B Crypts<\/em> will feature a wealth of guest vocalists; one of those singers, Sal Principato of NYC dance-punk pioneers Liquid Liquid, appears on new single \u201cTitanium 2 Step.\u201d<\/p>\n

The track pairs a lean, driving beat from Stanier with Williams\u2019 colorfully funky guitar and keyboard. Over top, Principato layers on a wild array of whoops, yelps, shouts, and screams, broken up by a hypnotic instrumental midsection. Like much of Battles\u2019 work, \u201cTitanium 2 Step\u201d is both danceable and disorienting, its avant-garde grooves a perfect match for Principato, whose own band was mining similar territory as far back as the early Eighties. The song is a fitting preview for an album directly inspired by New York, and the first LP the band both wrote and recorded there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe loved making this record in our hometown of New York and cannot be more pleased that Sal from Liquid Liquid is on the track,\u201d says Stanier in a press release. \u201cIt could not have been more perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the other guest vocalists on the LP are Yes\u2019 Jon Anderson, Tune-Yards\u2019 Merrill Garbus, and Shabazz Palaces\u2019 Ishmael Butler, as well as genre-blending NYC singer-songwriter Xenia Rubinos.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about chord progressions, resolutions, returning home,\u201d Williams says in the press release of the record as a whole. \u201cTake that and throw it into a blender of modern electronic tools like glitching devices, or use melodic lines and take them and regurgitate them and pulverize the traditional stuff but at the same time try and retain harmonic relationships while completely smashing them up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album features an eye-catching abstract cover from accomplished NYC artist Andrew Kuo. In the video for \u201cTitanium 2 Step,\u201d helmed by Masanobu Hiraoka, the shapes seen on the cover shift and pulsate in time with the music.<\/p>\n

Juice B Crypts<\/em> is out October 18th and is available for preorder<\/a> new. The band will tour Europe and North America this summer and fall.<\/p>\n

Battles Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

December 1 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
December 2 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne
December 3 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
December 4 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
December 7 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Lee\u2019s Palace
December 8 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
December 10 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
December 11 \u2013 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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