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Battles’ ‘Mirrored’: Two Cent Review 

Posted in Album Reviews, Features, Reviews with tags , on 09/21/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

To the extent that “math rock” suggests playing guitar notes perfectly and usually one note at a time, some weight could be given to the otherwise esoteric term. The repeated usage of it to describe Don Caballero guitarist Ian Williams’ one-handed finger-tapping technique must’ve driven him close to losing his mind.

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