{"id":11160,"date":"2011-06-24T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2011-07-01T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:28:15","slug":"swn-presents-battles-islet-truckers-of-husk-solus-cardiff-university-26-06-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/swn-presents-battles-islet-truckers-of-husk-solus-cardiff-university-26-06-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Swn presents Battles \/ Islet \/ Truckers Of Husk : Solus, Cardiff University : 26.06.11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hardly needs selling, does it?\u00a0 Last time BATTLES visited Cardiff, in August 2007, they played the Point on a Monday night to a crowd largely exhausted from Green Man (where they’d headlined a sodden Folkey Dokey tent in jaw-droppingly magnificent fashion) and still managed to round up the assembled ale-pie-and-drug-addled rabble with a breakneck set of absurdly kinetic, technical math-rock and robotic ur-disco.\u00a0 They were supported by a nascent TRUCKERS OF HUSK, a year on from their debut show with Lightning Bolt at the same venue and on the cusp of becoming Cardiff’s most reliably exciting live band.\u00a0 Four Bloody Years later, the two meet up again, both surviving line-up changes, both with new albums completed, both ready to give the lie to any backwards notion of experimental, instrumental art-rock\u00a0being bloodless head music.<\/p>\n

Battles’ second album proper Gloss Drop<\/em> emerged after the departure of Tyondai Braxton, whose helium-pitched gibberish vocals (on ‘Atlas’) and manically bobbing David Luiz hairdo were a natural focus of the band in their rise to festival fixture status.\u00a0 It’d be wrong to pin that evolution in their style to him alone, though; his own free\/experimental grounding (composer dad, composition major, loop-head solo recordist) arguably made him the oddball in a line-up of veterans of Don Caballero, Helmet and Tomahawk.\u00a0 Plus, just listen to how much fun<\/em> the remaining three are having on Gloss Drop<\/em>, stirring disparate guest vocals into an electro-rock\/prog hybrid that uses their early EPs and Mirrored<\/em> as equal reference points.\u00a0 There’s elements of disco, techno-rock and polyrhythmic pop in there, and by all accounts it sounds breathlessly exciting live.<\/p>\n

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THAT LINE-UP, though.\u00a0 Truckers, you could say, have tried the patience of the faithful in the last few years, but their debut full-length Accelerated Learning<\/em> is finally finished and will be played in full at this gig.\u00a0 If they can remember how it goes, the cheeky scamps.\u00a0 If a replica of the 2007 line-up isn’t good enough, then how about adding the freewheeling percussive magic of ISLET to the equation?\u00a0 Bolstered by Huw Evans on guitar\/drums\/everything else, the now five-piece live Islet experience will offer new songs, frazzled, sweaty good vibes and huge, memorable shoutalong moments of pure joy.\u00a0 It’s already one of the best nights of the year before the headliners even come on.\u00a0 Miss it and be laughed at in public, basically.\u00a0 Oh, and don’t look for it in Millennium Music Hall, you won’t find it anymore.<\/p>\n

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SWN\u00a0presents<\/p>\n

BATTLES
\nISLET
\nTRUCKERS OF HUSK<\/p>\n

Sunday 26th June 2011
\nSolus, Cardiff University<\/p>\n

7.30pm
\n\u00a314 advance<\/p>\n

swnpresents.com
\nwegottickets.com
\nseetickets.com
\nticketlineuk.com
\ncardiffboxoffice.com
\nbristol ticket shop
\nSpillers Records
\nDerricks Records<\/p>\n

This is a 14+ show \/ please bring ID<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you see a band you really like, the reason you really like them is because you wish you\u2019d had that idea. And when I saw Battles I thought, \u201cDamn! Why didn\u2019t I think of that?\u201d
\nBrian Eno<\/p>\n

You can often spot the best bands \u2013 the truly once-in-a-generation type \u2013 by their names alone. The all time greats usually come ready made with nomenclature that encapsulates their sound and ethos effortlessly.
\nBATTLES are no exception. They are a rock group locked in conflict with the very limitations of what it means to be a rock group; conducting an all out assault on mediocrity and waging a fearsome campaign against genre conventions and pigeonholes. Their sound is that of an elite guard engaging in a series of complex sonic skirmishes. This is the sublime noise of equally talented musicians pushed to their limit \u2013 as interested in conducting synchronized audio attacks and ambushes on the listener as they are on each other.
\nGLOSS DROP is an astounding album born from resolve and resilience. It features the UK\u2019s dark synth pop pioneer Gary Numan; Chilean born Kompakt minimal techno producer Matias Aguayo; cult indie rocker Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead; and Yamantaka Eye, the messianic
\ndreadlocked front man of Japanese cosmiche future beat unit, the Boredoms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we\u2019re writing songs, no one in this group has ever said \u2018Wait, we\u2019ve gone too far. This isn\u2019t a BATTLES song.\u2019 Because what is a BATTLES song? We don\u2019t know. All I know is that there are noparameters and no boundaries. That is the whole point and has been since day one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Battles\u2019 John Stanier, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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