week one. july eleven. battles. mirrored.

.this is week one of my random cd adventures. i'll assume you read the introduction and you have a basic idea of what is going on. i am pretty excited about this idea and i have no idea what i will end up with each week so it will be interesting to see what gems i will find and what garbage i will spend twenty dollars on. but i love music and whatever happens will happen.


.the funny thing is though that i set out on an adventure to find something cool and interesting and different maybe and as it turns out my choice is something that many people are familiar with. well music lovers of the underground hip variety. i love how i am accidentally hip i suppose. maybe that's how i am in general.

.oh well. regardless.


.i went in to hmv looking for B twenty three number 4 and what i found i was not even remotely prepared for. i thumbed through until i got to number twenty three and that would be something called battles.

.i have never heard of this band at all but i knew that the packaging was definately intriguing and it was brand new so maybe i was on to something.
.so i went and paid for my mystery cd and a friend of mine was working and he seemed excited that i was buying the disc. I KNOW I SHOULD KNOW WHO THIS IS he said. i told him what i was doing and it was random I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS BUT IT LOOKS PRETTY SWEET said i. i paid my twenty dollars and was on my way.


.i headed back to the office and carefully opened the packaging and marveled in it's beautiful cardboard packaging and unfolded the mini poster of the bands instruments and jam space i assumed. and i popped the cd in.


.i still am not sure how i feel about the disc really. it caught me completely off guard. i had no idea what to expect really at all and even listening to it again i am still wrapping my mind around it. it's a pretty avant garde piece of musical goodness that is for sure. the garbled vocoder tinged melodies that dart back and forth throughout the songs mixed with the glorious keyboards that base most of the tracks. and the guitarists riffs seer and dance setting a mood of excitement and anticipation throughout the disc. it's definately an interesting rock album with a cyborg electric heart.

.i like it. it's really interesting and definately something alot more different than what i normally would pick up.
.i'm no musical expert that is for certain. i just like good music and like to experience things alot different than say listening to the same five songs on the radio. this battles disc has already made quite the impression on me and i'm sure after some more listening it will grow on me more.

.some songs are sweet.
.some are creepy.
.some are definately catchy.



.i'll definately be listening to this for some time to come i believe.

.enjoyable.