My fav uncles!!

So this is how Battles sounds at 2023. Amazing stuff.

It's so wild how it goes from being almost a mess for a couple of bars and the John reinterpretes the pattern and suddenly it all works 😅

Love watching my dad play drums

@shiftleft

Жыл бұрын

big dad vibes

@gregcox7347

9 ай бұрын

So do we… for more than 30 years now… Saw him play last week in Boston and better than ever.

Loved seeing them just jam a bit!

Ian's guitar playing is always phenomenal

I like Battles in this version, no synth/keyboard and pre-recorded vocals. More interesting and focus with their instrument

This sounds like some old school Don Cab shit

@Two-Eyed_Boy

Жыл бұрын

You can take the man out of the Don, but you can't take the Don out of the Cab

@candlerredden

Жыл бұрын

@@Two-Eyed_Boy exactly

@skapybara

Жыл бұрын

Damon Che is drumming again on the Don Caballero youtube channel.

Im dying to hear a whole new album, this was familiar but soooo fresh and inspired all at the same time... love it!

@timneumann8515

Жыл бұрын

Is there something coming?

@spatialtests

Жыл бұрын

Always

@underscorechaz

Жыл бұрын

@@timneumann8515 I Hope so but they didn’t announce anything official

@stuFF625

Жыл бұрын

If tradition holds (album every 4 years), we’re due for some new material soon

@QuitestrangeOddity

Жыл бұрын

Spoke to John last year when they were on tour, they were gunning to get back into the studio when the tour was done. Said it was long overdue.

BEAUTIFUL. NEED MORE BATTLES

This is the most interesting thing Battles has done since Ty left. Just Ian playing the guitar and reminding us that he's f***ing brilliant on the instrument (I ain't forgot about Storm & Stress) and John beating the drums into submission.

Am I really that old?! Holy shit.. Turned 38 today. Ioved these guys in 2010

I need this music to keep happening

two legends!!

yasss!! awesome !!!

It's so strange to see how time passes inexorably. Sometimes that gives us back the wisdom sound of these masters of the genre. Battles guys we

Incredible to see this. Was following Third Thursday for snowboards, then obviously transitioning to some of the bands you (and I love) so I went back through and Mars V! and everyone else, how incredible! Just went back through this whole series and love the swamp sessions as I went once and think it might be where music was born (along with frogs). Pinnacle snowboard being glass from Italy, Pinnacle guitar being anyone that enjoys it!

so badass

This is funnnnnn!

Oh hell yeah

Sounds great! Eager to see you guys in Montreal with Mr Bungle!!!

if their next album sounds like this it's probably going to be one of their best yet!

@ericmsandoval

Жыл бұрын

Dude. Absolutely not. A bunch of jumbled notes. No solid hooks like their first 2 LPs had.

@lotusnaturals1897

Жыл бұрын

@@ericmsandoval I felt hooked throughout this

@michaelgraham9774

Жыл бұрын

@@ericmsandoval Is the quality of music now defined by whether or not his has a big, ear candy hook?

@ericmsandoval

Жыл бұрын

@michaelgraham9774 for this band..for me…yes. Lol I listen to a lot of noise and drone music that is completely devoid of any “hooks” or “beat” but when it comes to Battles I LOVE their catchy shit.

@jackpfiester5013

10 ай бұрын

​@@ericmsandovalAccept that they're a different band now and appreciate the current lineup for its own merit.

enjoy this a lot. when he really gets going it definitely reminds me of 80's King Crimson, both in the actual tone of it and all the overlapping progressions that make your head spin

john always giving 100% !!🎉

Dont understand the comments saying this is bad. This sounds better than most of what they had in the 2010s, and thats saying quite a bit

OMG, my dad rocks the cardboard

If you pull more DC sounds for the next album I'll love you forever. I mean I will anyways but those cross sticks sound like cardboard ☺️

that part from 2:00 on is insanely beautiful, very midwest.😍

Ньюкасл чемпик!

damon che looks like stanier

@banaunth1240

2 ай бұрын

I can see it a bit

What song Is this? Or Its an impro?

@candlerredden

Жыл бұрын

The sound of the guitar sounds like the guitar from Ice Cream but I think this is new material. It's cool

@gordoalcuadrado1338

Жыл бұрын

@@candlerredden yesss it remind me to Ice Cream, but sounds like new stuff, really cool Thanks Man 😊

@candlerredden

Жыл бұрын

@@gordoalcuadrado1338 yeh you're welcome, it does . It's awesome it reminds me of some old school math rock like Don Caballero

@gordoalcuadrado1338

Жыл бұрын

​@@candlerredden totally!! And a bit G?G! or old school Tera Melos too!!

@candlerredden

Жыл бұрын

@@gordoalcuadrado1338 yeah definitely Giraffes? Giraffes! And some Tero too

I hate when drummers muffle the snare drum. It is always the best tuned wide open. I saw another video with John and he had a wide open tuned snare that sounded incredible.

One by one everyone keeps leaving this band. Pretty soon it's just gonna be a million pedals and a drum machine run by AI playing on loop.

they bought all that new gear right when they ran out of ideas huh

they dont seem very happy?

@bocelott

Жыл бұрын

they're depressed

@emmakatenotcake

Жыл бұрын

For the entire 16 years I've been listening to Battles, trust me when I say John (and to a lesser extent Ian) always looks like that.

@stjhnn8592

Жыл бұрын

there might be Battles' Pinkerton incoming!

@Gogogoogle477

Жыл бұрын

@@emmakatenotcake yaaa? Idk I have been a fan for the same amount of time. I remember them being more enthusiastic

Umm nah.

I love helmet, but this just reinforces my opinion that Ian needs Damon on drums. Battles is good, but I don't think they'll ever be as good as Don Cab. I will say that around the 5:15 mark John really starts getting into it, but everything before then would have been improved with Damon on the sticks.

what a messs.....

@ericmsandoval

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately this is true

I respect them both immensely, but this is just... not good.

Would love to play my 5 string bass under these riffs.

Jesus, I never realized that Dave Konopka was the real brains behind this band... This sucks.

@Eugene-pf7ll

Жыл бұрын

Although to be fair, everything that they did with Dave was hyper composed and structured. Maybe not an apples to apples comparison since this is an improv session

@BrunoOfCanada

9 ай бұрын

Not an apples to apples comparison; which is TOTALLY true. This is improvised, when it comes to writing stuff, Battles will sit down with the music and live with it for months on end, and THEN hit the studio. I agree with you to be completely honest. Dave, man... He was just something else. His sound and the stuff he did with the pedals, it was so freaking amazing. But I always think of Battles as a super-band, that wasn't really a super-band. You've got these four incredibly skilled and creative musicians, but only two of them had a prevalent trajectory prior to the formation of the band. I feel like I'm in a place where I can attest to what I just said. Ian is a guitar and synth genius, John is this minimalistic groove oriented drummer that is almost like a human metronome, Tyondai is a multi-instrumentalist music scholar, and Dave is a painter with a guitar and a really expensive pedalboard. If anything, I think every four of those guys was a "brain" of their own.