La Di Da Di (studio album) by Battles

A lot of the most written-about new artists are praised for the ways in which they reminisce over and reinterpret the hallmarks of 1990s culture. There’s infinity new things to say about it, and also none. While the album does venture into this ground, particularly the Dot Net video, Battles escapes falling into that trench and is very much a Battles project.

Best track: Dot Net. It makes me want to buy an educational CD-ROM of some sort.

From SleepDealer 10/04/2015 17:41

I preferred Gloss Drop to Mirrored, so this is a welcome direction. That said, it just doesn't hang together as well as I would like outside the more obvious highlights.

From mickilennial 09/18/2015 16:06

Stronger than Gloss Drop, but still utterly weak and uninspired.

This album is a step forward for Battles, as they leave vocalists behind and record a fully instrumental album. I believe it's the right direction, but this record has some growing pains. Some tracks are half-done, and a couple with good potential are abruptly cut short, however, the best songs on here show that Battles can make great music without the help of vocalists

From PsychologistHD 09/05/2015 02:40

To my knowledge, the first completely instrumental album from Battles, and for what we got, it was pretty good. We have a few bangerz including "FF Bada", and we have a portion where it drags in the middle, but it kind of steps out of the comfort zone near the end and saves itself.