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January 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Zombi: Shape Shift

Zombi Shape Shift Relapse Drummer A.E. Paterra and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Steve Moore are back as Zombi – and back for the first time in nearly a decade making music in the same room together. Here, with their latest album we’re reminded of their film-score fixation (Mission Creep feels like something by John Carpenter as interpreted by […]

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September 4, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1867

Battles, Gloss Drop (2011) Overnight, Battles became the friendly face (and “voice”) of math-rock. That voice of course was something akin to several species of small fury animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a picture of cartoon prog-rock clearly in mind. That song was big. And people who didn’t know math-rock existed […]

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June 14, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1965

Battles, Atlas – 12” Single (2007) When Battles released Mirrored in 2007 the song Atlas became the group’s calling card. Pitch-shifted vocals that seemed to take on the human interpretation of imaginative conversations that stoned woodland creatures might have. And that military beat. That was all it took to sell prog-rock to a whole heap […]