Track Listing

1. Race: In
2. Atlas
3. Ddiamondd
4. Tonto
5. Leyendecker
6. Rainbow
7. Bad Trails
8. Prismism
9. Snare Hanger
10. TIJ
11. RACE: OUT

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2918 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-22
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Amazing Indepth Album
Battles are a math rock band. This stylistic genre is composed of only the finest of musicians (usually). Requiring a thorough in depth analysis of their instruments and true understandings as how to play synchronized with one another. Battles is on a strong progressive note here, and succeed in making some great off the walls music. The single "Atlas" is quite the oddity, the music feels 'outside the box'. Overall 'Mirrored' is one of my favorite albums, but some songs really seem to be lacking in comparison to the first few tracks. Great Experimentation, great sounding electronics, very clean sounding production, nice drum, a full package! Battles are a band definitely worth checking out.

Sure Is Out There (In This Case A Good Thing)
I first came upon these guys by seeing the video for "Atlas". Immediately intrigued, I delved further into the craziness that is Battles. It took a while for this album to catch on with me, but once it did I was hooked. Aside from "Atlas", the highlight here for me is "Tonto" which has hook after catchy hook.

The rest of the album is equally as catchy, but it takes some time for the listener to fully appreciate the album. It's not for the casual music fan, it is definetely an experimental band. Pop this in, sit back, and fade away into the madness that is Battles.

The crash is on the ceiling....
I listen to this because I think Ian Williams is a genius, or atleast he has carved out a highly original approach to the guitar....this album kind of scratches my Ian itch, a bit less so than the battles ep's do....it's those moments when he begins to hammer these odd, intricate, inverwoven melodies on his frets that really do it for me....Battles has settled one of my long held suspicions about Don Caballero...namely that Ian Williams was at least 50% (Hell, 75%) responsible for their greatness! Damon could play the drums, but Williams made the music brilliant. Whenever I hear new music with Williams' fingerprints on it, it spoils other music for me for a while...His stuff just makes other music seem two-dimensional somehow....Battles drew me in slowly and now I'm hooked for better or worse.