For fans of: Reinvigorated avant-rock innovators.

What they're saying: Now just a duo, Paste Magazine says the group has created their “most cohesive start-to-finish listening experience in the band’s career” with Juice B Crypts. Sean Kitching from The Quietus delves into the record track by track, hearing able innovators challenging themselves with new sonic terrains and ideas, saying in one summation: “The listener’s ideas of where the album might be going are acknowledged and playfully upended.” NME gives the record 4 stars, calling it their most immediate and fun work to date.

What we say: Battles is one of the few bands that can make a record so challenging, dense, genre-bending, and fun all at once. They find common ground between math-rock, dance music, experimental composition, synth-worship, and more on Juice B Crypts. In a lot of ways the band seems more focused on what makes them special now as a duo. This new one is as fresh and sharp as this group has sounded since Mirrored.