Re: the band “Battles” in the New York Times
On Apr 5, 2007, at 4:24 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote:
The band is a proponent of math rock. Can anyone help me
understand this?
It means they use funny time signatures instead of the standard 4/4.
I.e., the beat is not the regular 1-2-3-4/1-2-3-4 that dominates
rock, but uses odder, often rapidly changing rhythmic structures that
group into 5s or 7s or 11s, and with the accents in unexpected places.
Doug