Load Blown [CD]

Load Blown is the fourth album by Brooklyn's Black Dice. The beats drip and roll, tar-pit voices sing into an oil can, and the guitars crank like calliope. Some tunes crackle and burble like submerged television, others bump and click along like a Summer Jam concert series from another dimension. While a noticeable change in tone encompasses Load Blown (some tunes veer close to pop songs), this is a work of over-stimulation, a product of frenzied media culture, a sonic sifting of the gratuitous amount of "stuff" out there. The span of time (nearly 18 months of on-again/off-again work) encompassing the composition and recording of the album accounts for a sprawling variety of sounds and songs. Strange and abrasive, yet somehow more familiar, accessible, and celebratory than ever, this is BD at their most palatable yet. Load Blown is a compilation of three 12" vinyl EPs. The final EP (released at the same time as the cd) will be the remaining five tracks not previously released on vinyl.

• Format Detail: CD Digipak
• Format: CD
• Label: Fire Records
• Genre: Rock