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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 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 9, 2012The trio's sixth album Mr Impossible finds Black Dice at their most accessible and most aggravating.
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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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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 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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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 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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Under The RadarJul 9, 2012Impossible feels weirdly adroit. [Jun 2012, p.160]