Battles gear up new release

On the 6th of June the band Battles will send their new album to shops near you. The album will be called Gloss Drop and it will follow-up Battles’ previous release Mirrored. It will be the band’s first album sans Tyondai Braxton, but they have found some people willing to lend a hand. Amongst them are Gary Numan, Matias Aguayo, and Blonde Redhead singer Kazu Makino.

One of the songs is called ‘White Electric’, taken from an episode in a kingdom far far away. The king at one point wanted to switch to White Electricity. Mainly because he didn’t know which colour normal electricity was, and he wanted to get a clear, logical symbol for electricity on several maps and pamphlets, and he struggled finding one (Lightning, he shouted, is soooo 19th century Benjamin Franklin, and the court concurred). Now, there were some expenses involved with this, so much so that he thought, Hmm, I need a viable reason to switch. So he had all the universities in the country do research on possible benefits of white electricity. Almost did they find a relation between white electricity and the speaking of French, as people living in apartments with white electricity promptly started speaking it. Hurray, everyone thought, until they found out that they couldn’t speak French at all and were merely pursing their lips and calling out nonsense syllables, always being sure they ended with “eauuu”.