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Mirrored - Battles
  • Band Name: Battles
  • Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: May 22, 2007
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Metascore
86 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 31 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 161 Ratings

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  • Summary: The unique New York four-piece math-rock outfit (that includes members of Helmet and Don Caballero) follows a string of three acclaimed 2004 EPs with this debut full-length, which adds (heavily processed) vocals into their mix of live and programmed instrumentation for the first time.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Playlouder
    100
    This is not just an album that can be appreciated by fans of the avant-garde, pop and rock alike but a genuine fuck you to the people claiming modern music has nowhere left to go.
  2. The Guardian
    100
    The way repeated listens allow its unobvious rhythmic and melodic logic to take root is fantastically rewarding.
  3. Slant Magazine
    60
    Elaborate time signatures and clever tape manipulations abound, and there's some fun trying to guess which instruments are synthesized and which are authentic, but Mirrored suffers from being too bright and spirited.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 108
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 108
  3. Negative: 17 out of 108
  1. David
    10
    One of the very best albums of 2007, this one needs several listens to yield its treasures. Hard to describe the sound, but it's truly great.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. JRatcliff
    5
    Deeply ambivalent. At moments it seems to digress into the worst kind of atonal jazz riffs imaginable. This album makes a hell of a lot of noise, but not a lot of sense. Sure it's "new","fresh", and any other kind of overused advertising adjective you want to paste to this bandwagon, but is it "good"? I really don't know, I'm not that used to working this hard for pop music.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. MikeN
    3
    I had high hopes for this album after reading reviews saying that they are reinventing music, etc. This is an extremely repetitive album. The band made one cool beat for each song, and played it over and over for 4, 5, or even 10 minutes, adding more and more instruments every few bars. The only thing that was remotely impressive was the drumming, but the Mars Volta pulls that style off 500X better. Overall a boring, repetitive, and at times annoying album.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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