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Under The RadarJul 9, 2012Impossible feels weirdly adroit. [Jun 2012, p.160]
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Jun 21, 2012There is a laudably uncompromising quality to the album which I admire. But by the time I get to album finale Brunswick Sludge I find myself getting a little bored with it all. There's only so much wacky noise experimentation I can take in one go.
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May 16, 2012Mr. Impossible [is] a record that shows a band evolving, as it embraces full-on melodicism with a cheeky goofball spirit.
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May 3, 2012Mr. Impossible is easily Black Dice's most accessible album yet, but that's not saying much. It's still very uneasy listening.
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Apr 24, 2012[By] stripping down their music to basics, Black Dice have lost the soul in their music. The neatly-defined order of the motifs and disorder of the noise together create a surprisingly tedious album.
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Apr 23, 2012The result is album of beats and grooves, alternately plodding and engaging, punctuated by the occasional bursts of Black Dice's signature sonic playfulness.
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Apr 16, 2012Though Mr. Impossible is their most accessible work to date, it's still unmistakably Black Dice.
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Q MagazineApr 13, 2012A record that is a highly-concentrated shot of sound. You might lose your mind, but Black Dice never lose the plot. [May 2012, p.91]
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Apr 13, 2012On the evidence of Mr. Impossible, they still sound like no one else and they're still thinking hard about music and texture. When you're craving something trashy and tripped-out in this very particular way, they still deliver the properly damaged goods.
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Apr 13, 2012Always challenging, never compromising, Black Dice prove why it's the most thrilling noise band around.
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Apr 12, 2012While that combination [hip-hop beat, industrial trudge, start-stop synth] yields some moments of blissful jitteriness and pop rejiggering, Mr. Impossible never gets too far past being big, dumb, and unquantifiably creepy.
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Apr 12, 2012Black Dice maintain the high experimental standards that made their other records cult favorites, and manage to present their spectrum of squelches in a more focused way than usual, without sacrificing playfulness.
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Apr 10, 2012Mr. Impossible feels both inquisitive and hermetic, half closed off to the outside world, half chasing noise and patterns to their logical conclusion.
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Apr 10, 2012Yet despite having created a record that admirably challenges pop conventions, Black Dice could let a little more of the tradition in to help shape their material further and get the most from this direction.
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Apr 10, 2012As bewilderingly little logic as Black Dice's rave collages contain, they're nailing something close to unique.
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Apr 10, 2012Mr. Impossible accomplishes the improbable: being more accessible and more alienating at the same time.
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Apr 10, 2012For those interested in zany experimentalism, Black Dice's latest is a welcome addition to a long line of solid releases, but for those who have never been awed by this brand of cacophony, Mr. Impossible offers little besides noise.
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Apr 10, 2012Imbued with a rupturing rave-punk sensibility.
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UncutApr 9, 2012Music without charm or purpose, with all the nutritional value of a Twinkie. [Apr 2012, p.71]
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Apr 9, 2012When it works, the noises are strange and exciting, like discovering a dead animal as a child, all over a danceable groove. When it doesn't, it just sounds like a drunken jam sesh over fucked up Casio drum loops.
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Apr 9, 2012The trio's sixth album Mr Impossible finds Black Dice at their most accessible and most aggravating.
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Apr 9, 2012There's strange stuff here even by the none-stranger Black Dice's standards. But again it's more purposeful and propulsive than that appearing on their previous albums.