dross/drôs/
Noun: Metallurgy – A by product of molten metal from smelting, essentially metallic in character.

glop/gläp/
Noun: An amorphous, shapeless lump of something.

Whether the spoonerism came before or after the decision to remix, we’ll never know. But the image is apposite. In contrast to Gloss Drop’s cohesive whole, each remixed track acts as a smaller, self-contained unit, molten blobs of ideas scooped from the surface, leaving a shiny, math-rock ingot. If Gloss Drop was the refined distillation of Battles’ fierce angular expansiveness, Dross Glop is the inversion. Continue reading →