Battles on Ditching Vocals, Echoing Slick Rick and the Art of Food Porn

Battles create mostly instrumental music heavy enough for metalheads, nuanced enough for jazz cats and weird enough to pull in all sorts of fans from the fringes. From 2007’s Mirrored up to the present, the New York art-rockers’ surprisingly hooky, electronic-tweaked-to-sound-organic (and vice versa) creations have also soundtracked ads for Honda and…