Music From Another Mother
13 May 2011
This week’s music update does a little pond hopping, pairing the experimental rock of NYC’s Battles with European indie rock from UK’s own Art Brut. Separated by sports, the Atlantic and of course teeth… the two still have the whole rock and roll thing in common, that and tour buses, hair, backstage whatever, groupies, tattoos and Jack Daniels.Joining forces in 2002, the super-group Battles formed from a collection of seasoned rockers, instrumental futuristic wild machines, who five years later delivered their weirdly danceable debut album Mirrored. And while it’s been a long time coming, in 2011 the group released their sophomore album Gloss Drop, featuring the logically spastastic single “Ice Cream.” Peep it right here, right now. Seriously.
Likewise, and in good form, Art Brut parallels the unclassifiable sounds of their experimental counterparts almost perfectly as the band’s very name evokes a mid-20th century art movement characterized by a breaking of traditional boundaries. Outsiderish, rebellious, punk before punk… this Art Brut, too, is on a path of it’s own. Willed into being in 2003, the Bournemouth band has since released four albums, toured with Oasis and graced the cover of Rolling Stone. If that’s doesn’t make them worthy of a listen, we don’t know what does.
Other noteworthy groups include Columbus, Ohio’s Blueprint spitting electro-hop, the South African trance rock sounds of Gainsford, and super-punk from the Tre Arthur Three.
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