My friend in New York has been bugging me about Battles for at least a year, and now the experimental band is out with a new record, Gloss Drop, and the track “Ice Cream” is making the rounds.

Honestly, this is the kind of song that can really grind on me if I’m not in the right mood for it. But if I am, it’s got this odd mix of funky and noisy and slightly goofy. I just needed to put up something that wasn’t mellow and introspective, which is what I’ve been flirting with these days. And I don’t want to make this look like some emo LiveJournal knockoff. No thanks.