Listen to a New Battles Song Now

Finally! It’s been over three years since NY’s prog-math-rock juggernaut Battles released its debut album, and really haven’t heard a fresh thing from the band since. We heard a while back that the quartet would be contributing a song to the soundtrack for the third movie in the teeny bopper-friendly Twilight series, Eclipse, and now we can finally listen to the song. Praise be!

After scrolling through songs by UNKLE, Beck and Bat For Lashes, Band of Horses, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, and other respectable tunes from the ‘indie’ elite, you’ll find “The Line” by Battles. The track starts out sounding quite similar to “Tonto” from Mirrored, but—what’s this?!—you can understand what Tyondai Braxton is singing and its not in a squealing impish pitch. We could go into more detail about how awesome “The Line” is, what with its accelerating tempo, epic turns of melody, and almost pop-friendly nature, but we’ll just let you make your own assessment of it here. And listen quick, because this is coming down tomorrow.

Listen: Extra Life - “Head Shrinker (Tyondai Braxton Remix)”

It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard anything from Battles frontman and future-classicalist Tyondai Braxton, so despite us not having much background on the Brooklyn band Extra Life, we went ahead and posted this remix of the outfit’s track “Head Shrinker” anyway.

Braxton’s treatment of “Head Shrinker” is far more on the experimental, noisy side of his music rather than the orchestral endeavors he followed on last year’s Central Market, but somehow melody still finds its way into the mix. Truthfully, we’re not sure what exactly this version has to do with the original song, but we’ll take it in lieu of that new Battles album we remain waiting patiently for.

Listen:
“Head Shrinker (Tyondai Braxton Remix)”

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Listen to a New Battles Song Now
Listen: Extra Life - “Head Shrinker (Tyondai Braxton Remix)”

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