The group’s fourth album occasionally threatens to collapse beneath the weight of its overstuffed songs.
Ian Williams and Dave Konopka continue to transform cartoonishly weird guitar and synthesizer sounds into legitimate vehicles for melody.
Dross Glop is scattershot, meandering, awkward, and often boring.
No matter how you do the math, Battles is still blowing the curve.
The Clientele are really pushing it.
Battles sound exactly like Steve Reich and Philip Glass jamming with Don Caballero.