Black Dice

DISCOGRAPHY

Natty Light (archival, '98-'00) 5/10

Number 3 (EP, 2000) 6.5/10

Beaches and Canyons (2002) 7.5/10

Wolf Eyes & Black Dice (2003) 

Creature Comforts (2004) 7/10

Broken Ear Record (2005) 7/10

Eric Copeland: Hermaphrodite (2007) 6.5/10

Load Blown (2007) 6/10

Eric Copeland: Alien in a Garbage Dump (EP, 2008) 5/10

Repo (2009) 5/10

Mr. Impossible (2012) 5/10

Mod Prog Sic (2021) 6/10

   In the beginning, Black Dice were a noisecore band whose flailing and erratic songs were competently executed for their genre, but the group had no particular draw until they implemented harsh electronics into their sets. Following this path, founding member Eric Copeland quoted that they started to emphasize "more sounds instead of songs." Thus redirected Black Dice into the noise, electronic and neo-psychedelic scenes with early Animal Collective and Wolf Eyes. 

   The compilation Natty Light exhibits their punk era in broad strokes, but their 2000 EP Number 3 shows where they began to embrace the electronics as an asset more than a novelty.

   This turn culminated in the masterwork Beaches and Canyons, an intense U-turn into the experimental noise-psychedelia of such impeccable taste that the turn from hardcore punk seems almost paranormal. 

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