Gloss Drop
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| Studio album by Battles | ||||
| Released | June 6, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2010–11, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, Rhode Island |
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| Genre | Experimental rock, math rock | |||
| Length | 53:50 | |||
| Label | Warp | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Clash | (9/10) |
| NME | (8/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.4/10) |
| Robert Christgau | (A-) |
| The Skinny | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Spin | (9/10) |
Gloss Drop is the second studio album by American experimental rock band Battles.
Most of the album is instrumental, but vocals are provided by various guests performers, including electronic musician Gary Numan and Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino.
"Ice Cream" was the first single to be released from the album on May 23, 2011, in both digital and 12" vinyl formats. The vinyl was limited to 3000 copies, and was released in three different "flavors," with "strawberry" (pink), "vanilla" (cream), and "chocolate" (brown) colored records.Barcelona-based directorial collective CANADA produced a video for the single. It includes the B-side "Black Sundome" and an instrumental version of "Ice Cream". The second single released was for "My Machines", featuring Gary Numan, which came in digital and vinyl formats with an instrumental version of the song and an unreleased track titled "A.M. Gestalt".
From February to April 2012, a series of four 12" vinyl EPs were issued, titled Dross Glop (a spoonerism of the title) 1 through 4, featuring remixes of all the songs on Gloss Drop by various artists. A compilation featuring the 11 remixes (plus one not included, "Sundome") was released on April 16, 2012.
Dave: "The artwork is a sculpture that I did, I'm even reluctant to say sculpture... it's a sculpture that I made during the making of the album and essentially it's a big pink blob, of nothing. I wanted to represent a solid document that would be the album, that is a controlled atmosphere and have something that is completely organic that you can't even control the way things are going to happen, and at the end of the day it was more evident that we couldn't control anything other than the way things were going to happen when it came to making this album. So the actual artwork was just this blob... I made this controlled square one that didn't look as good but the organic blob that just fell into place and then congealed and solidified, was the total proper way for us to go for the album."
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