Over Battles

Not to be Debby Downer but I saw Battles 2 days ago and it was really cool at first but it ended up just wearing on me. There was one song at the beginning where the guitarists were both playing one handed guitar and keyboard at the same time and it was great (the highlight). There was one song towards the beginning where the drummer was accenting the upbeat with hihat accents and it was great, but really those guys just do the same thing over and over again and after 30 minutes i had had enough. I really enjoyed those first 20 minutes dont get me wrong, but as cool as the sound was there was no breadth to it. It was just lets play fast and hit the upbeat with different instruments. The hi-hat accent was the nicest because it was subtle and the real accent of the song was on the downbeat, but the rest of it was not as nice. They are at their best when the drummer is playing something more sparse in a certain way thats sort of crisp. He played that way on whatever the first song they played was, but it was downhill after that.

I really didnt like the opening band The Ponytails.