“Ice Cream” by Battles featuring Matias Aguayo

"Ice Cream" was the first taste of Gloss Drop, the second album by the American experimental rock band Battles, and the Warp single brought in Chilean-German artist Matías Aguayo as a guest lead singer. He shares the writing credit with David Konopka, John Stanier and Ian Williams. The physical single played up the title, coming in three limited-edition cover and vinyl flavors, strawberry, banana and chocolate, with an instrumental version and a B-side, "Black Sundome", along for the ride.

Luís Cerveró directed the video, produced by the Spanish collective CANADA: a run of unrelated vignettes cut against footage of the band and Aguayo playing, which some noticed looked a lot like CANADA's clip for El Guincho's "Bombay". Pitchfork put it at 47 on its list of the top 100 tracks of 2011.

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