Battles recently announced La Di Da Di, their instrumental follow-up to 2010’s Gloss Drop arriving September 18 via Warp. The band has released the first single, “The Yabba”, which you can listen to here via Rolling Stone. Battles previously performed the song in a live session in New York.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Battles’ Ian Williams also revealed the meaning behind the album’s title. “[It’s about] using “la la la” — like generic voicings for singing — using this to describe instrumental music,” he said. “It’s sort of a playful, whimsical thing that takes pressure off of us by saying, ‘We’re not overwhelming you with heaviness or anything.'”
Watch Battles perform “Futura” at Pitchfork Music Festival:
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