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Well... some moments are actually hilarious, but overall there’s a lot of formal intellectualism in this album, and that doesn’t sit well with me. This is forced experimentation, just to show how (apparently) crazy they are. I can get hyped listening to a Carry stress in the jaw, but it still doesn’t flow as it should; it’s obvious that it's a rhetorical album, even if it has good potential.

But who cares if Totti is an idiot or not? He's not getting paid to be nice and intelligent. He's getting paid to play soccer, and he does that very well.

Well, the infantilism mixed with Math is evident in Battles (a sung part of Atlas reminds me of the jingle from the Cicciobello ad!!), and indeed the only way they had to create a meaningful album with these "cerebral" premises was to not take themselves seriously, and it seems to me that Battles really don’t take themselves seriously, deliberately creating "idiot" and contradictory music. (Not for nothing does the spirit remind me a bit of Polysics, who are still definitely less interesting than Battles, and they also vaguely remind me of Devo, who, however, explicitly aimed at the mind-numbing effect of the technologized man). It's true that sometimes the doubt persists while listening to Mirrored; perhaps a greater use of sung parts would have helped with physicality as you say, so they would have completely removed themselves from the impasse of supposed cerebralism... Oh well!

Well then, would Kinks and Beach Boys also be terrible just because they are Pop? Hmm.. isn't there maybe pop and POP?

Good job.

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The album is filled with filler upon filler, with syrupy ballads. The only three tracks that somehow caught my attention are jesus of suburbia, give me Novacaine, and Whatshername (was it written like that?), which strikingly reminds me of Macy's Day Parade. "It's a cry against servitude to the mass media and a warning to shake off passivity" ... do you think with this album they freed themselves from the mass media?? Could it not be that without the mass media "American Idiot" wouldn’t even exist?

Yes, indeed there is, what De Rossi did with the penalty is the emblem of this Roma that always gets 30 but never 31. It’s true that he had the courage to do something like that with the score at 1-0 (it would have been easy to try the chip at 4-0), but you just have to put that damn ball in the net, even with a fork would be fine X-D

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Hi easy, I read earlier that you consider Royal Trux too geometric and abstract (I think they’re more abstract than geometric, but anyway we’re on the same page) and therefore pretentious. However, I ask you: aren’t Battles a bit like that too? Because lately I've been re-listening to Mirrored and sometimes, from the middle of the album onwards, I get a bit of a headache (seriously), it feels like wandering in space as their music doesn’t provide any reference points... I’ve started to wonder if they might be a bit too self-indulgent (keeping in mind that songs like Atlas and Ddiamond deserve a standing ovation).