“Amerika” is a dreamlike travel, the research of a utopia that might never be reached. The song is powerful and augurs very beautiful things for the upcoming album.

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The band is composed of Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö plus Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg of Danish act Efterklang. By the way, if you knew this band before, you will probably notice some elements from their work.

“ii” features songs written in Finland, Berlin, Istanbul and Madeira. Each city influenced the sounds, sometimes literally through field recording and sampling. Every residency ended with a live concert, performing the freshly written songs in front of an audience.

If you want to pre-order the album, it’s over there. It will be available on March 18.
For the dates of the tour, you can check the official web site of the band.

As a bonus, here is their live set at Best Kept Festival 2015:
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Tracklisting:

1 Your Heart
2 Amerika
3 Roger Waters
4 Russians
5 Trains in the Dark
6 Woods
7 513
8 You Stayed in Touch with the Wrong Guy
9 Black Beach
10 Change of Time

[su_dropcap style=”simple” size=”1″]M[/su_dropcap]ath rock band Battles is opening a new WARP film series for Channel 4‘s Random Acts with their video for “Dot Net”. The track is featured on their last album “La Di Da Di” also out on WARP.

The video is directed by Ben Jones and deals with a utopian relationship between men and technology. It starts like a video game and is as geek as you think: in a futuristic museum, people are admiring connected and psychedelic video paintings. You will see screens, computers and smartphones. It fits very well to the universe of their last album, which doesn’t include any vocals.

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Here are some words of the director:
“The exploration of the digital territory between abstract graphic user interfaces, poly-rhythms and human interaction was a paramount inspiration of this video. Prodding and proving the causality of passive engagement vs hyper-addiction concerning the influence of “screen time” (using the video and audio of an iPad or iPhone or etc….). In the end we kept returning to this jump off: “Is this a dope music vid to have on your Apple Watch? Yes or No?”