''Battler'' is a 2009 album from indie-rock artist

Gregory Douglass Gregory Douglass (born December 19, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter. Douglass plays lead guitar and piano. Background Douglass was born and raised in rural Vermont, performing in musical theater and winning local talent shows in his ear ...

. The first video from the record will be "Cathedrals," as stated on www.gregorydouglass.com On the record, Gregory experiments with cabaret themes and heavy, striking instrumentation, which is a departure from the piano and guitar work on this previous records. The record features fellow Vermont artists

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of the Nocturnals, as well as

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The Battler Tour

To promote the record, Gregory went on The Battler Tour in the Winter of 2009. The show opened in Cambridge, MA and traveled all throughout the United States. Opening acts varied and included Chad Perrone. The setlist contained many tracks from the new album as well as material from his previous albums ''Teeter'', ''Pseudo-Rotary'' and ''Up & Away''. Many of the tracks were reinvented to suit a full-band including guitar, drums, keyboards, backing vocals, and a cello.

Track listing

All songs by

. # "Broken Through" # "Cathedrals" # "Devotion" # "Day of the Battler" # "No Apology" # "Stay" # "Madeline" # "Sadly" # "This Is My Life" # "Lifeline" # "Harlequin" # "Ordinary Man"

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