Battles are the Networked Band, or perhaps the-band-as network. An island chain linked by a unique combination of artistry, experimentation, technology and singular focus. Aband that holds computerized loops in their brains, leaves sweat on their machines and whose sonic heartbeat is almost brutally human.Dave Konopka, Ian Williams and John Stanier have turned the tables on themselves this time, confronted their own ideas of what Battles is – and here on their third album, have willed an answer to that question into existence. As the name might imply, La Di Da Di is a mushrooming monolith of repetition. Here is an organic techno thrum of nearly infinite loops that refuse to remain consistent. The rhythmic genus of Battles is here as ever; full frontal, heightened and unforgiving – the gauntlet through which melody and harmony must pass, assailed at every turn.
A1 The Yabba
A2 Dot Net
A3 FF Bada
B1 Summer Simmer
B2 Cacio E Pepe
B3 Non-Violence
C1 Dot Com
C2 Tyne Wear
C3 Tricentennial
D1 Megatouch
D2 Flora > Fauna
D3 Luu Le
