The video for Tonto from Battles‘ new album is simply outstanding. I’ve been a big fan of Tyondai Braxton for years, since I saw his voice/guitar/effects/sitting-on-the-floor/time-warping mastery in a small performance at the multi-purpose room on his father’s home turf, at Wesleyan University. While I think his solo work pushes more and is ultimately more interesting, the music Battles puts out represents a (slightly) new direction for post-rock that is tight and pretty accessible. This video saves the 3 minutes in the middle of the song that border on extended jam-band nonsense.