Blog: State Magazine

Battles (Ray Ban Stage, Friday) If you’re going to Forbidden Fruit this weekend, don’t expect Battles to play ‘the hits’. Since last weekend, Primavera punters have been raving about how brave Battles were on the Friday night – a virtual headline slot at one of Europe’s top festivals, the biggest crowd they’ve ever played to, and they committed the cliché rock’n’roll faux pas, playing only ‘the new stuff’. Their new second album Gloss Drop wasn’t even released yet (it’s out today). This is the rock experimentalists’ first tour since losing their multi-instrumentalist vocalist Tyondai Braxton, who [...]