Battles announce new album Juice B Crypts, share “Titanium 2 Step” feat. Sal Principato of Liquid Liquid: Stream
Battles have introduced a brand new album referred to as Juice B Crypts. It comes out October 18th by way of Warp. In celebration of the announcement, they’ve shared its lead single, “Titanium 2 Step”, which options Sal Principato of NYC dance punk band Liquid Liquid.
Juice B Crypts is the fourth full-length album from Battles. Whereas it technically picks up the place 2015’s La Di Da Di left off, it sounds extra like 2011’s Gloss Drop given it’s stacked with visitor vocalists: Jon Anderson of Sure, tUnE-yArDs, Shabazz Palaces, Xenia Rubinos, and extra. The artwork rock album sees its major members — guitarist, keyboardist, and electronics participant Ian Williams and drummer John Stanier — attempt to reinvent the wheel final minute. Seems like it will likely be as frantic as their lauded 2007 debut, Mirrored.
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“Titanium 2 Step” is funky, reckless rock music that flails wildly in sudden methods. Above rubbery bass tones and frenetic drumming is Sal Principato, gasping and yelling with urgency. It’s a hell of a return observe, and one which seems like a follow-up to “Ice Cream” from Gloss Drop greater than the rest.
The one arrives with an accompanying music video, too. Directed and created by Masanobu Hiraoka, the clip sees a rainbow-colored assortment of strains and shapes construct throughout the display, creating the phantasm of 3D towars and numerous graphic designs. It virtually seems like these classic patterns from bus seats gone haywire. That, and a mash-up of the album art work. Watch it under to see what we imply.
With a who’s-who of collaborators like those Battles scored, it’s solely logical to marvel what the whole lot of Juice B Crypts will sound like. Williams summed it up finest in a press launch: “It’s about chord progressions, resolutions, returning residence. Take that and throw it right into a blender of contemporary digital instruments like glitching units, or use melodic strains and take them and regurgitate them and pulverize the normal stuff however on the similar time attempt to retain harmonic relationships whereas utterly smashing them up.”
Pre-orders are already out there. Within the meantime, try the album’s art work and tracklist under.
Juice B Crypts Art work:
Battles 2019 Tour Dates:
08/14 — Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Membership
08/16 — Compton Martin, UK @ ArcTanGent Competition
08/17 — Taranto, IT @ Cinzella Competition
10/23 — Berlin, DE @ SchwuZ
10/24 — Dublin, IE @ Button Manufacturing unit
10/25 — London, UK @ EartH
10/28 — Manchester, UK @ Manchester Gorilla
10/30 — Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo
10/31 — Borgerhout, BE @ TRIX
11/01 — Turin, IT @ Membership To Membership Competition 2019
12/01 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
12/02 — Portland, OR @ Hawthorne
12/03 — San Francisco, CA @ The Unbiased
12/04 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
12/07 — Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
12/08 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Corridor
12/10 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Corridor Of Williamsburg
12/ 11 — Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Corridor
