Black Dice

the mp3 is on slsk. a fragment of it was mixed in on that MUSIK mag DFA mix that you mirrored the mp3s of earlier this year.

MAKE SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE B&C + SEMEN OF THE SUN OK?

i do have a rip off slsk that's okee dokee... what's on the b-side (or tracklisting)?

eric copeland album is pretty sweet

MEH

title track, oreo, green burrito, scumpipe, mouthhole, and scraps are all totally awes

its got that burbling teeming drony pastoralism that most of the BD stuff after beaches and canyons has had, which i love

Anyone else have the Load Blown promo? I'm really enjoying this, though I'm only otherwise familiar with Beaches and Canyons.

Dinca xpost ?

REPO

holy shit.

what gives?

new album coming in april, may be their best yet, just wait til you hear this thing

o yeah read about it somewhere recently. what does it sound like (eg in comparison to previous albums)

there are some good black dice clips from back in the day on youtube now, was just watching some t'other night

cant wait!

http://www.forcefieldpr.com/blackdiceglazin.mp3

I love how this is gonna be out just in time for my birthday

this sounds cool. i think im more excited for the art booklet than the music.

Sounds really like Copeland's solo stuff, esp the last one.

this is a good thing

haha, I'm getting a little bit of an earthbound vibe from that:

totally - the solo work has spilled over into the main project, and def for the better. the dice just seem more open, looser, etc while still seeming a bit inhuman, too. it's hard to explain, i've only listened twice so far.

yeah, its like their balearic album maybe! i was startin' to get a bit sick of their overtly dancey stuff

thats how i felt about roll up/drool. very very burbly, which i looooove.

This might be their Merriweather Post Pavilion. Ha. No but really-just "located" this. It's great.

It's already leaked?

This might be the first album in years I wait for the physical.

Spent all day listening to the Smiling off remixes.

i think Earthbound and balearic are off the mark, but feel it's kin to MPP, but in their own inscrutable way. if anything, Repo sorta makes Dice come full circle and i find it to be really punk. it's also bursting at the seams, messy as fuck, and i'm just glad that they've sorta reinvigorated themselves with this one. it also coheres with their visual aesthetic (not that Load Blown didn't).
seeing as how it comes with a 20 page book of art, the physical (rather than the leak) will be sweet meat indeed.

where can this be found? all of my usual tricks are failing me atm

I was sent it via e-mail from a connected buddy. Much like Ducktails (stupid, ignored thread I started) this shit is good with some shit. If you know what ah mean.

I'm sure it will be floating around soon

Well you're definitely right about it being more rough and ready (I'm basing all of this on Glazin btw) but its also looser, stretched at the seams, blissed out, but not in a boredoms psych-ey beaches and canyons but in a trashier VIBEZZ kinda way. Like something washed up at Ibiza maybe.

Someone hit me up with this on AIM, pls: brightscreamer

One thing I miss about old black dice was the hardcore vox,

So, Repo is "out". Personally, I think it's their best yet. Well, at least their gooiest. I like goo ya know? I'm on my third listen. Awesome stuff. Anyone else heard?

Listening now

This piece is hilarious!

Also, big snowfall journalism to sell $120 sweatshirts is pretty smart

Of course, Whiney is right re: the advertorial lols of it all--that bunny T-shirt is a great BD graphic, though, IMO

Were they part of the Fort Thunder scene in Providence?

i like their music but they sound like they were lame destructive morons!! fuck off

lame destructive morons

noize borad slander

I love this quote:

“I knew about music but I had no idea how to do it. I didn’t realize the rate that someone was counting off was going to set the tempo for the fucking song. I thought you started at the same time, and played at the same speed, and then ended at the same time, and that was playing together. It didn’t occur to me that you could play in time to a beat, actually timing a note or a chord so that it lined up with a specific drum.”

And also

“And then at the end of the show, everyone who had offered us a place to stay withdrew those offers and the promoter came up to me and was like, ‘it would be a better idea, and make everyone happy, if you just left town tonight.’”

xp: not gonna lie, there's a little part of me that hates that a guy who ever thought something that dumb still gets to be a musician, and even successful at it, just like people who actually have some basic clue about music, and there's also a little part of me that loves that about music

It's a little like hearing a quarterback saying "When I first got to Alabama, I didn't even realize that those little x's and o's meant something, that you could actually draw a picture in advance that would tell the players where to go"

I mean I’ve read similar stuff from many a punk band, it doesn’t seem so unusual for rock ‘n roll.

I wanna know what embarrassing indie rock shirt Bjorn was wearing lol. There's some speculation between a few private weird twitter accts who are cozy with the band but I'm not sure their speculation was considered indie at the time.

they're a noise group, lots of noise people don't know "basic music stuff" or whatever, I still think they should "get to make music" because noise rules

BD >>>>> any of the wackass emo hardcore bands they opened for. Thank god for the Copelands

Only got to see them live in the later mutant dance days. They were fucking great.

I suppose mic-smashing and affected bad attitudes and screeching post-hc noise was novel to nyc hipsters who'd somehow never heard the thousands of screamo bands all over the United States that preceded Black Dice. I will admit that repackaging Gravity Records chaos-core / power violence for the wealthy and fashionable was a stroke of genius, though

pfftt

the early ‘00s still had some crossover from that time

seeing a show with both the locust and the rapture was an interesting bill

lots of noise people don't know "basic music stuff" or whatever

very true. it's one of the things that make it a kinda folk/populist genre and allows for diversity, as opposed to other "rock"-related genres that have certain educational requirements that serve as barriers to entry

i laughed at the thank you to M1ke S1monett1, who was notorious for not paying bands on his label back in the day

xp exactly

he's quoted in the piece too, talking about how he never thought about or was concerned with whether or not a release would make money

that's the case with a lot of labels tbrr, but most of them don't actively rip off bands and then bully them online when they ask for their contractual share of sales

it's not just bands, some people have said he bought expensive records from them on eBay and then falsely claimed the records never arrived

now that's punk rock

Yeah, he tried to rip me off in a similar way

Repo becomes more of a masterpiece every year

Flaccid Mojo, which is Bjorn Copeland and Aaron Warren from Black Dice, just put out a really good debut album: https://flaccidmojo.bandcamp.com/album/fm
A little like Mod Prog Sic but looser/weirder

This sounds pretty much like a black dice album, enjoying this a lot.

This might be better than the last Black Dice LP, tbh

FM playing SF on Tuesday (support No Age) hmmmm

sounds cool but the j dwyer blurb made me vomit in my mouth

Flaccid Mojo have a new album, "Loose Jacks," coming out on Feb. 27. https://flaccmo.bandcamp.com/album/loose-jacks

The new song sounds good.