PRESS
△ “battle ave. wears its heart on its sleeve, and you’ll want to roll yours up and pump your fist…”
- Listen Before You Buy: Ones To Watch
△ “a huge record full of inventive, passionate rock songs…”
- Best of 2011, GoldFlakePaint
△ “90′s grunge… with an updated sound that is full of soaring guitars and sore-throated vocals.”
- No Country For New Nashville
△ “storming atmospherics and a crunchy core sound that comes from a time before indie and alternative arrived at the fork in the road. War Paint is gripping rock.”
- Hudson Valley Almanac
△ “…crushing tidal waves of music… at once disarming and brilliant…”
- Roll Magazine
△ “…captivating instrumental passages…”
- Crusher Magazine
△ “…equally ambitious and sloppy, emotional and barren…”
- write.click.cook.listen
△ “…shimmering crescendos that will split the sky even as they split yr skull.”
- TALLC Presents
△ “visceral, thunderous indie rock that plays like a score from a motion picture.”
- Sirens of Decay
△ “…this is art.”
- Independent Clauses
△ “…effortless lose-yourself-in-the-music quality…”
- Dauphin
△ “…a great little indie release that will hopefully boost these guys into the stratosphere.”
- Sonic Masala
△ “shit, this album is exhausting… like when you finish that strenuous hour long shake-weight work-out. the burn is deep, but it feels so good.”
- SYFFAL.com
△ “sounds like grunge reappeared in the form of a small bird…”
- Times Herald-Record
△ Tom Tom Mag. – The Beat Behind Battle Ave // 4.21.12
△ AZLTRON.com: Interview // 2.20.12
△ Independent Clauses Top Albums of the Year // 12.29.11
△ Dingus: Best New Music // 9.08.2011
△ The Music Slut: Music Monday// 2.28.2011
△ Largehearted Boy: Daily Download // 12.13.2010
Things drunk people have said:
△ “Fuck Sonic Youth, you’re Sonic Youth!”
△ “Most girl drummers play like buh buh buh, but you play like BAH BAH BAH!”
△ “You are the linear representation of the diminished 7th.”
△ “I couldn’t understand a word that man was saying, but I understood the urgency.”
△ “Now don’t get me wrong, they had some good jam sessions.”
