Black DiceBest Black Dice Albums Ranked
7.7
Avg Score
10
Opinions
10
Albums
2
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Summary from 10 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Black Dice's catalog across 10 albums from 10 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated Black Dice album is Beaches & Canyons (2002) with a 9.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Broken Ear Record and Creature Comforts. The discography on Wavelength spans 1997 to 2021. Smiling Off (DFA Remix) ranks as the highest-rated Black Dice song on Wavelength with a 8.6/10 average.
Broken Ear Record
“Brooklyn trio follows the polarizing Creature Comforts with a record that's flighty, frustrating, and at times a little frigid, but intelligent and never lacking in momentum.”
Creature Comforts
“When *No New York* was issued in 1978, it should have been fair warning to anyone within earshot that punk would not be confined to fashion statements or cathartic brattiness. Featuring four bands from Manhattan's lower East Side, the Brian Eno-assembled compilation highlighted an artistic spirit far removed from the "pretty vacant" methodology of punk's first wave; as it happened, the sprawling, ”
Natty Light
“This collection of singles and compilation tracks documents the band’s formative years, in which frenzied hardcore and proto-screamo was rapidly churning toward more radical strains of noise.”
Miles of Smiles - EP
“Last year-- slumped over a table at a bar that could pass as the center of Brooklyn's music community-- I asked Black Dice vocalist-turned-knobtwister Eric Copeland what he thought of his band's place in modern noise's renaissance, as well as its knowledge of that genre's past. "I feel like there *is* an underground that is really aware of this stuff," he said. "We're a little bit behind-- like we”
Load Blown
“Culled from singles for DFA and Paw Tracks, as well as five cuts from an EP released simultaneously with Load Blown, the Brooklyn band's fourth official LP is really more a singles collection than an album but it hangs together well regardless.”
Mr. Impossible
“There's an infectious sense of discovery in Black Dice's latest album as the Brooklyn band finds ways to make bizarre music into something tightly structured and fun.”
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