AwesomeNess
I’m always prowling the internet looking for something to perk up my drab existence.
Often, it is music that comes to the rescue. Gosh. There is so much great stuff out there I would never have discovered, if I hadn’t been bored enough to go foraging for it. For example, this little bit from a band called Battles.
I found them a couple of months ago, on one of those year-end lists. I think it was PopMatters.com, which listed Battles’ track, “Atlas” as one of the best singles of 2007. I’m not a techno-head. Ok? I am not some math-rock uber geek, either. My leanings, as you’ll eventually learn, go heavily toward singer-songwriter stuff, strictly indie-pop and classic pop territory. Battles are not that at all. But this band, and especially this track, is just too freaking awesome to deny.
How to describe it? A dancehall tune for kick-ass robotrons, maybe? House-cleaning noise for meth-addicted housewives? Military music for an invading evil army of futuristic Nazi chipmunks? I tell you what. If I’m working in the promotions wing of, say, Mercedes or BMW, I’m on my knees right now, writing a check to Battles so I can use this track in future car commercials. When I play this in my car, and those drums come swooping in at the beginning, it’s an instant power trip.
Pity, this video for the “Atlas” single edits three minutes out of the original song. You’re gonna want all seven minutes. You’re gonna want them BAD.
One more thing, before you click the “play” arrow: Yes, those are real vocals being garbled in the track. And no, I don’t know or care what those vocals are singing. You won’t care, either.
