Artist Black Dice

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Black Dice

A scene-making noise group whose influence would be hard to overstate, Black Dice was onto something when it veered from hardcore punk to anxious ambient music lo so many years ago. It led the way for countless Brooklyn bands with gear boxes and tangles of wires at their disposal, and helped appropriate the art of making noise from a generation long since past. Plus, it’s gotten considerably better as time has moved on: Its last album, Load Blown, was a becoming collection of scrappy songs that showcases the band’s more bubbly, organic matter with an approachable air. The 2009 follow-up, Repo, makes good on all that and benefits from a better command of the finer points of composition.

Updated 06/04/2009