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Battles: Ready to rumble

David Stubbs, The Wire, February 2006

"ONE AVANT GARDE child prodigy, two indie guitar nerds and one hard rock borderline metal drummer thrown together in a filthy basement studio in Brooklyn," muses drummer John Stanier on the genesis of Battles. "Something was bound to happen."

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