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Battles are ex–Don album Cab guitarist Ian Williams, ex-Helmet/current Tomahawk drummer John Stanier, Brooklyn avant-guard Tyondai Braxton, and David "Lil' Ian Williams" Konopka. EP C contrasts instrumental prowess, time changes, and lengthy songs—prog for the almost-hot, aka math-rock—with chiming carousel hooks that loop upon themselves, never escaping their album gravitational orbit. For those familiar with Don Caballero, EP C is a continuation of the band's final and best album, American Don. Honky-futuristic jazz-funk dearly cradles melodies shaken from Cracker Jack boxes while thousands of Little League cleats pitter-patter on waxed album linoleum. With American Don, Don Cab became Williams' band as his delay-pedaled riffs and hammered strings overcame the deliberate fractals of Damon Che's drum kit. Williams' Faulknerian (as the Ivy Leaguer in him would undoubtedly appreciate) picking re-emerges in Battles, only slightly shattered by Braxton's own pedal pranks and Stanier's shockingly precise drumming.
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