Battles Mirrored

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This New York quartet gives ancient prog-rock moves a makeover -- and a kick in the pants."
4 stars out of 5 -- "For rock that's both fist-pumping and forward-looking, this album suggests that Battles have few peers."
4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Battles have minimized the ambient filler and added some bizarre processed vocalizing and increased electronic counterpoint to their already bafflingly contrapuntal, loop-heavy attack..."
"They stretch their instrumental prowess wherever their textural whims take them, often by trapping melodies inside an intricate instrumental web where rhythmic shifts signify the verses."
"This time Battles sound like they're actually having fun, relishing the opportunity to stretch out over the length of an album and sounding an awful lot like King Sunny Ade interpreting early 70s Yes..."
Ranked #9 in The Wire's "Top Ten Records of the Year 2007" -- "On-a-dime virtuosity combined with sever compression, to claustrophobic but exhilarating effect."
"MIRRORED is propulsive and ragged, matching Teutonic firmness with drunken collapse."
"[T]hey executed a radical and complex synthesis of Krautrock, experimental jazz and Queens Of The Stone Age."