Mέχρι στιγμής είναι ο πιο πρωτοποριακός δίσκος της χρονιάς. Εδώ είναι η αληθινή προοδευτική μουσική
Playlouder
This is not just an album that can be appreciated by fans of the avant-garde, pop and rock alike but a genuine fuck you to the people claiming modern music has nowhere left to go.
Stylus Magazine
Battles unite process and expression, making playing that?s as quantized and mechanical as Kraftwerk sound as wild and urgent as Albert Ayler.
The Guardian
The way repeated listens allow its unobvious rhythmic and melodic logic to take root is fantastically rewarding.
Pitchfork
Mirrored is a breathtaking aesthetic left-turn that sounds less like rock circa 2007 than rock circa 2097, a world where Marshall stacks and micro-processing go hand in hand.
Drowned In Sound
Whereas before in their career the four-piece seemingly tossed myriad elements about with little to no regard for the actual acceptability of the composition at hand, here each and every piece ? pieces that truly do flow into one another quite magically ? sinks into the listener?s synapses silkily, short-circuiting them through disbelief rather than a simmering intolerance.
Lost At Sea
If the Flaming Lips mated with Marilyn Manson and ate Underworld for breakfast, the end result might sound something like Battles’ debut album, Mirrored.
Alternative Press
At times, the effect is akin to hearing Tortoise and Animal Collective covering the Steve Reich and Devo catalogs in tandem; but such reference points barely do justice to an album that just halfway through 2007, is already topping the year’s best-of list in multiple genres. [Jun 2007, p.151]
Urb
Every song on the 52-minute masterpiece builds and bridges until everything self-destructs and the only thing left to do is dance. [May 2007, p.92]
Tiny Mix Tapes
Mirrored is a marvel, dastardly and wholly original as it is, and one of the year?s finest.
Almost Cool
It’s dance music that’s hard to dance to and post rock music that’s post what everyone else making post rock is doing. Oh yeah, and it’s also one of the best releases of the year.
