Battles - Atlas

What this video is

Released in early 2007 as the lead single for Battles' debut full-length album 'Mirrored' on Warp Records, 'Atlas' arrived at the precise moment when UK-rooted electronic experimentalism (Warp's core identity) was merging with the NYC post-rock and math rock underground. The video visualises the band's central conceptual thesis — that instruments, effects chains, and signal processing are the true performers — by…

Why it matters

A landmark document of mid-2000s experimental post-rock and math rock at peak critical visibility. The video's aesthetic — gear-as-protagonist, mirrored infinite space, rhythmic editing locked to polyrhythm — became a reference point for how avant-garde rock bands could assert visual identity…

The director

Timothy Saccenti is a New York City-based director and photographer whose work mixes analog lighting techniques with specialised modern mediums including 3D, holography, lasers, and generative digital art. His immersive futuristic style made him an in-demand…