Black Dice
Repo

A Norman Records recommendation (3rd April 2009)

This record left our Ant feeling happy.

I guess some people will be falling over themselves to get their mits on 'Repo' the latest album from Black Dice. There's just tons happening on this album, as you'd probably expect. I like the use of repetition and the way the tracks evolve in all their skewed off kilter glory. You get the sense that the trio just live for creating sound and yet don't take themselves too seriously. They blend live instruments and electronics seamlessly to the point where you almost become confused as to what their actually doing and how they're creating the sounds. There's a lot of accessible moments on the album juxtaposed with some fabulously freaky action. I quite like the rough cheapo sounds. Huge fun throughout. Digi-pak CD on Paw Tracks with 20 page booklet with art by the band.

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What their label says...

*  REPO is the fifth album by Black Dice.

*  FULL PAGE REVIEW IN WIRE MAGAZINE: "THE BROOKLYN TRIO’S LAIRY CONCOCTION OF BIG BEAT AND FREEFORM OVERLOAD BORDERS ON THE MIRACULOUS. OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES, SO CALLED ‘FREE’ MUSIC HAS BECOME CAUTIOUS AND STANDARDISED. BLACK DICE , ON THE OTHER HAND, HAVE THE FAITH TO FLIRT WITH DANGER, AND ON ‘REPO’ THEY REAP THE SPOILS OF VALOUR."

*  The Brooklyn, NY-based trio has never worked harder at crafting a set of concise, sonically battering, or flat-out bizarre tunes than on this collection of fringe-surfing tone bombs. Yet a new roadhouse blues-band philosophy has simultaneously emerged, allowing the group to loosen up and toss off a record packed with blurry hooks and zoomed-in riffs as casually as a grizzled denizen of roadside dives might spew out aural alchemy in-between a few brews.

*  Brothers Eric and Bjorn Copeland and Aaron Warren have spent the better part of 10 years in daily contact, touring the world over, and sculpting their saw-toothed sound balloons under circumstances most reasonable people would wretch at.

*  REPO is the sound of a disciplined group of cosmic jokers setting out to reclaim the landscape popular culture would have us believe we cannot afford. The record irreverently mulches the sounds and images of radio, TV and internet into a fertile compost pile squirming with new, raw life.

*  CD and Double LP both feature 20 page booklet with exclusive art by the band

*  TRACKLISTING: 1. Night Cream 2. Glazin 3. Earnings Plus Interest 4. Whirligig 5. La Cucaracha 6. Idiots Pasture 7. Lazy 8. Buddy 9. Inches 10. Vegetable 11. Urban Super Mist 12. Ultra Vomit 13. Gag Shack

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