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CARDBOARD SESSIONS ~ Battles ~ #12
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Күн бұрынFormed in NYC in 2002, Battles today is ex-Don Caballero and Storm & Stress member Ian Williams and ex-Helmet and Tomahawk drummer John Stanier. Often labeled as a Math Rock band, Battles are the embodiment of musical experimentation, with a sound that’s constantly evolving. For Episode 12, we’re front and center at the famous Powerstation Studio in NYC. A place where a few rockers you may have heard of have laid down tracks, like Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones and Madonna.
Welcome to Cardboard Sessions. A jam format music series that brings musicians together to play instruments built and designed by the creators of Cardboard Chaos. A creative exploration for the love of music and the chance to hear something original. No rehearsals, no plan. The moment when a creative spark hits and you dig deep to explore the realm.
Artist:
Ian Williams - Guitar
John Stanier - Drums
Studio - Powerstation
Engineer / Robbie Chemical
Cardboard Chaos - How the drums were made:
• Cardboard Drums featur...
Cardboard Chaos - How the guitar was made:
• Cardboard Guitar Strat...
Cardboard Chaos - How the bass was made:
• CARDBOARD CHAOS - FEND...
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@torrapa Жыл бұрын
So this is how Battles sounds at 2023. Amazing stuff.
@jakedavoile9527 Ай бұрын
Unbelievably talented dudes!! These fellas are the most talented and friendliest men you could ever wish to meet - first class gentlemen. Their music blew us away! Love you guys xxx
@moka8267 Жыл бұрын
My fav uncles!!
@sammadden5540 Жыл бұрын
It's so wild how it goes from being almost a mess for a couple of bars and the John reinterpretes the pattern and suddenly it all works 😅
@ForrestRice Жыл бұрын
Love watching my dad play drums
@shiftleft Жыл бұрын
big dad vibes
@gregcox7347 11 ай бұрын
So do we… for more than 30 years now… Saw him play last week in Boston and better than ever.
@lol858lol 21 күн бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@pluralloops Жыл бұрын
Loved seeing them just jam a bit!
@michaelgraham9774 Жыл бұрын
Ian's guitar playing is always phenomenal
@candlerredden Жыл бұрын
This sounds like some old school Don Cab shit
@Two-Eyed_Boy Жыл бұрын
You can take the man out of the Don, but you can't take the Don out of the Cab
@candlerredden Жыл бұрын
@@Two-Eyed_Boy exactly
@skapybara Жыл бұрын
Damon Che is drumming again on the Don Caballero youtube channel.
@02backuppp3 Жыл бұрын
I like Battles in this version, no synth/keyboard and pre-recorded vocals. More interesting and focus with their instrument
@underscorechaz Жыл бұрын
Im dying to hear a whole new album, this was familiar but soooo fresh and inspired all at the same time... love it!
@timneumann8515 Жыл бұрын
Is there something coming?
@spatialtests Жыл бұрын
Always
@underscorechaz Жыл бұрын
@@timneumann8515 I Hope so but they didn’t announce anything official
@stuFF625 Жыл бұрын
If tradition holds (album every 4 years), we’re due for some new material soon
@QuitestrangeOddity Жыл бұрын
Spoke to John last year when they were on tour, they were gunning to get back into the studio when the tour was done. Said it was long overdue.
@carlop3019 9 ай бұрын
It's so strange to see how time passes inexorably. Sometimes that gives us back the wisdom sound of these masters of the genre. Battles guys we
@eskomoWon 7 ай бұрын
Am I really that old?! Holy shit.. Turned 38 today. Ioved these guys in 2010
@banaunth1240 3 ай бұрын
Dont understand the comments saying this is bad. This sounds better than most of what they had in the 2010s, and thats saying quite a bit
@lotusnaturals1897 Жыл бұрын
if their next album sounds like this it's probably going to be one of their best yet!
@ericmsandoval Жыл бұрын
Dude. Absolutely not. A bunch of jumbled notes. No solid hooks like their first 2 LPs had.
@lotusnaturals1897 Жыл бұрын
@@ericmsandoval I felt hooked throughout this
@michaelgraham9774 Жыл бұрын
@@ericmsandoval Is the quality of music now defined by whether or not his has a big, ear candy hook?
@ericmsandoval Жыл бұрын
@michaelgraham9774 for this band..for me…yes. Lol I listen to a lot of noise and drone music that is completely devoid of any “hooks” or “beat” but when it comes to Battles I LOVE their catchy shit.
@jackpfiester5013 11 ай бұрын
@@ericmsandovalAccept that they're a different band now and appreciate the current lineup for its own merit.
@EnisVoorhees 5 ай бұрын
I need this music to keep happening
@thewheelofhc Жыл бұрын
john always giving 100% !!🎉
@Ivanselectsongs Жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL. NEED MORE BATTLES
@wesq2159 Жыл бұрын
Oh hell yeah
@spoitras Жыл бұрын
Sounds great! Eager to see you guys in Montreal with Mr Bungle!!!
@goatboythc Жыл бұрын
Incredible to see this. Was following Third Thursday for snowboards, then obviously transitioning to some of the bands you (and I love) so I went back through and Mars V! and everyone else, how incredible! Just went back through this whole series and love the swamp sessions as I went once and think it might be where music was born (along with frogs). Pinnacle snowboard being glass from Italy, Pinnacle guitar being anyone that enjoys it!
@violetto3219 Жыл бұрын
enjoy this a lot. when he really gets going it definitely reminds me of 80's King Crimson, both in the actual tone of it and all the overlapping progressions that make your head spin
@thebunn Жыл бұрын
This is funnnnnn!
@ishcabittle Жыл бұрын
so badass
@turban196 Жыл бұрын
two legends!!
@marianofarias5641 Жыл бұрын
yasss!! awesome !!!
@jameskelley5918 12 күн бұрын
This is Jazz
@stjhnn8592 Жыл бұрын
that part from 2:00 on is insanely beautiful, very midwest.😍
@spatialtests Жыл бұрын
If you pull more DC sounds for the next album I'll love you forever. I mean I will anyways but those cross sticks sound like cardboard ☺️
@darrylehm 3 ай бұрын
This is the most interesting thing Battles has done since Ty left. Just Ian playing the guitar and reminding us that he's f***ing brilliant on the instrument (I ain't forgot about Storm & Stress) and John beating the drums into submission.
@changezine Жыл бұрын
OMG, my dad rocks the cardboard
@demetriusantuna3870 Жыл бұрын
One by one everyone keeps leaving this band. Pretty soon it's just gonna be a million pedals and a drum machine run by AI playing on loop.
@ssunfroze Жыл бұрын
damon che looks like stanier
@banaunth1240 3 ай бұрын
I can see it a bit
@gordoalcuadrado1338 Жыл бұрын
What song Is this? Or Its an impro?
@candlerredden Жыл бұрын
The sound of the guitar sounds like the guitar from Ice Cream but I think this is new material. It's cool
@gordoalcuadrado1338 Жыл бұрын
@@candlerredden yesss it remind me to Ice Cream, but sounds like new stuff, really cool Thanks Man 😊
@candlerredden Жыл бұрын
@@gordoalcuadrado1338 yeh you're welcome, it does . It's awesome it reminds me of some old school math rock like Don Caballero
@gordoalcuadrado1338 Жыл бұрын
@@candlerredden totally!! And a bit G?G! or old school Tera Melos too!!
@candlerredden Жыл бұрын
@@gordoalcuadrado1338 yeah definitely Giraffes? Giraffes! And some Tero too
@tripledeluxedday 4 ай бұрын
I hate when drummers muffle the snare drum. It is always the best tuned wide open. I saw another video with John and he had a wide open tuned snare that sounded incredible.
@milestrifonov Жыл бұрын
Ньюкасл чемпик!
@ab8817 10 ай бұрын
they bought all that new gear right when they ran out of ideas huh
@Gogogoogle477 Жыл бұрын
they dont seem very happy?
@bocelott Жыл бұрын
they're depressed
@emmakatenotcake Жыл бұрын
For the entire 16 years I've been listening to Battles, trust me when I say John (and to a lesser extent Ian) always looks like that.
@stjhnn8592 Жыл бұрын
there might be Battles' Pinkerton incoming!
@Gogogoogle477 Жыл бұрын
@@emmakatenotcake yaaa? Idk I have been a fan for the same amount of time. I remember them being more enthusiastic
@rich83rs Жыл бұрын
Umm nah.
@DALTRON666 Жыл бұрын
what a messs.....
@ericmsandoval Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately this is true
@kieranl5249 Жыл бұрын
I love helmet, but this just reinforces my opinion that Ian needs Damon on drums. Battles is good, but I don't think they'll ever be as good as Don Cab. I will say that around the 5:15 mark John really starts getting into it, but everything before then would have been improved with Damon on the sticks.
@bazdesh 4 ай бұрын
I respect them both immensely, but this is just... not good.
@mixfuckedupmac Жыл бұрын
Would love to play my 5 string bass under these riffs.
@fartparticles Жыл бұрын
Jesus, I never realized that Dave Konopka was the real brains behind this band... This sucks.
@Eugene-pf7ll Жыл бұрын
Although to be fair, everything that they did with Dave was hyper composed and structured. Maybe not an apples to apples comparison since this is an improv session
@BrunoOfCanada 11 ай бұрын
Not an apples to apples comparison; which is TOTALLY true. This is improvised, when it comes to writing stuff, Battles will sit down with the music and live with it for months on end, and THEN hit the studio. I agree with you, to some extent. Dave, man... He was just something else. His sound and the stuff he did with the pedals, it was so freaking amazing. But I always think of Battles as a super-band, that wasn't really a super-band. You've got these four incredibly skilled and creative musicians, but only two of them had a prevalent trajectory prior to the formation of the band. I feel like I'm in a place where I can attest to what I just said. Ian is a guitar and synth genius, John is this minimalistic groove oriented drummer that is almost like a human metronome, Tyondai is a multi-instrumentalist music scholar, and Dave is a painter with a guitar and a really expensive pedalboard. If anything, I think every four of those guys was a "brain" of their own. It's unfair to say this sucks. I think it sounds awesome.
Highsnobiety
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