2015 END OF YEAR – ANDY VINE

ALBUMS Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh Alternately transcendental and crushing, Blanck Mass’ second album takes the abrasive ambience of his debut and marries them to stuttering glitch and punishing beats. Powerful, throbbing sound disorientates, blurring into high contrast synths and ravey stabs, walls of droning noise, exotic rhythms and twitchy samples. It’s aggressive, it’s blissed out, […]
Battles can now reveal a video for album track ‘Dot Net’, the first part of a new Warp Arts film series for Channel 4’s Random Acts, comprised of collaborations between filmmakers and Warp artists. Dave Konopka from Battles discusses the collaboration: “Ben Jones and I went Massachusetts College of Art together in the 90s and […]

BATTLES RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘DOT NET’

Album Review: Battles – La Di Da Di

La Di Da Di is an interesting choice of name for Battles’ third album. Where Mirrored had those weird, indecipherable, pitch-shifted syllables and Gloss Drop had fairly traditional guest vocalists, La Di Da Di is wholly instrumental and all the better for it. If anything the vocals were distracting on Gloss Drop. This record feels […]