[gmku]

You know what's weird about Battles...

Mirrored came out when I was still iving in Iowa City, a great college town with great support for music, good local scene, good record stores blah blah blah. The way that LP sold out of the stores its first week, it was like when Nevermind came out. I went in one day, having never heard of Battles before, and saw Mirrored in the racks, was kind of intrigued by the cover, but not knowing anything about it passed it up. Went home, read a review, couldn't wait to get back the next day to the record store to pick up a copy. They were all gone. Like 20 copies, on vinyl, flew out the door in 24 hours. Went to the other record store, they were down to their last copy.

Then they come to town, put on a great show that packs the bar, its the buzz around town for weeks.

And then nothing.