Saturday, February 19, 2011

Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons


Horrible bliss. If you're afraid of the ocean you'll get it, and if you like warm music you might get it, too. Black Dice has been cranking out very musical noise for a while now, but nothing has topped this album for me.
I see it like this, right at sunset everything looks sun baked, and orange and beautiful, right? However, night is approaching and all the beasts are howling and hungry. All they want to do is rip you limb from limb, but right now they are just yawning and making there cute, early-morning noises. Anyways, there is a horror there, an insurmountable amount of horror in the pretty warmth of twilight.
Or you could be out in the ocean, kicking it Kenny Chesney style when dusk comes around. The ocean is an extremely deep blue, and the sky reflects so beautifully in it, but once dark comes around you are sitting on top of 50 feet or pure black mystery. Anything could really be under your feet, and the slightest rush of wind could throw you off of your impenetrable fortress of fiberglass into the ocean. And the ocean wants you tonight.
It is a classic in the cannon of noise, and it is an impeccable album. Link in comments.

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