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Battles Confirm Album Details For ‘Gloss Drop’
Friday, 25 February 2011 Written by James Conlon


American band Battles have emerged from the studio to confirm details of their upcoming release, ‘Gloss Drop’. The album will be Battles’ first as a three-piece after multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Tyondai Braxton departed from the band last year.

‘Gloss Drop’, the follow-up to their 2008 debut album ‘Mirrored’ is set for release on June 6th in the UK and June 7th in the US. The band spoke to Pitchfork about the new album recently, discussing the new sound which the band developed in the studio.

Dave Konopka said: "There's a good spectrum - some shorter songs, some poppier songs, some total rock songs, some more out-there songs, some manic songs, a semi hip-hop-vibe song."

"There's one called "Inchworm" that's based on a four-hour jam I did by myself in our practice space-- which reminds me of this guy upstairs from our space who kept knocking on our door and losing his shit. He'd go, "You guys are driving me..." and his voice started cracking because he was so angry - fucking insane. He was like, "It sounds like you're dropping a fucking anvil down here! I don't know what type of music this is but even people that like your music don't like your music!" So maybe that gives you an indication of how good this album is going to be."

He continued: “It feels like such a free, fun, summery album to me. When we listened to it as a whole, it felt like so much more of an accomplishment than Mirrored. It was a really emotional couple years to get it all together. You don't really associate our music with that emotional thing, but I cried like a fucking baby when I first heard it.”

The tracklisting for ‘Gloss Drop’:

01 Africastle
02 Ice Cream [ft. Matias Aguayo]
03 Futura
04 Inchworm
05 Wall Street
06 My Machines [ft. Gary Numan]
07 Dominican Fade
08 Sweetie & Shag [ft. Kazu Makino]
09 Toddler
10.Rolls Bayce
11 White Electric
12 Sundome [ft. Yamantaka Eye]

You can view a four-piece Battles performing ‘Atlas’ on Later...with Jools Holland below:


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