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Metascore
83

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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

  • Summary: The third album for the German techno artist features Animal Collective's Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) and !!!/LCD Soundsystem's Tyler Pope as guest artists.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. I think it’s safe to say that Weber is putting his strengths into fine use and, with Black Noise, it’s utterly fantastic.
  2. Black Noise manages to navigate the tightrope of expectation and creative vision with aplomb. It’s rich and meaty, the kind of album you can really get to know over a long period of time.
  3. At 70 minutes, Black Noise is a big, dense listen but also the kind of album that rewards investment.
  4. It is not at all clear where you are heading when you board, and it becomes less and less important as the journey progresses, beauty on all sides, comfortably lost in the violet noise (more appropriate than black) suffusing everything at hand.
  5. It’s minimal techno made by someone in love with nature; dance music that should be narrated by David Attenborough — it's also what gives the album its beautiful spark of originality.
  6. With Black Noise the trance is too sporadic to even really exist, which does make it a much more appropriate record for a casual listen--but sometimes a listener just wants to get utterly lost.
  7. Where ["The Bliss"] bubbled and spat like hot fat, its meticulous construction overflowing with polyrhythms, Black Noise seems disjointed and overlong even though it runs for roughly the same duration.

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  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
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  1. Sep 21, 2011
    9
    Loved this album. Takes a while to really appreciate it but i find myself coming back to listen to it again and again. Has real depth. Its theLoved this album. Takes a while to really appreciate it but i find myself coming back to listen to it again and again. Has real depth. Its the only album that i have rated every track as very good. Expand