A Muso's Top 10: Battles

“I’m not bad, I can fend for myself” says Battles guitarist Ian Williams of his culinary skills. “I’m an intuitive person so I can usually make something work when I have no idea what I’m doing, that’s the way I often cook. I love garlic - a lot of spices – I’m one of those ‘someone who has been vegetarian but not I eat meat’ kinda people. Battles has a recipe for roasted bone marrow, which is delicious. I would definitely recommend that on some toast…some sliced bones with the marrow still inside, you screw it out and then put it on with a little bit of marmalade. That’s how people used to eat all the time – you should eat the whole fuckin’ animal, man!”

1. Modeselektor – Happy Birthday
2. Singer – Dumb Smoke
3. Dirty Projectors – No More
4. Gloria Coates – Symphony No. 15
5. Phill Niblock - Early Winter
6. Schlammpeitziger – Bassbesties Blaesse
7. Gil Roberto – Domingo No Parque
8. Autechre - Steels
9. Black Dice – Roll Up
10. Gang Gang Dance – Retina Riddim