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Black Dice still belong in the DIY basement space but with Load Blown they’ve made their most accessible album yet.
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Possibly the most confident and successful of this third phase of Black Dice, the pieces here make no claims to exist as anything but the welcoming and obtuse freaks of rhythms gone awry.
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Load Blown is stunning. It engulfs. While sacrificing little if anything to compositional templates, the record is remarkable listenable.
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The WireAn excellent showcase of their different approaches. [Oct 2007, p.55]
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For those looking for a bit of an adventure, this new music is surprisingly accessible.
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SpinThe layered results are mesmeric, giving their introverted noise a new, laserlike intensity. [Nov 2007, p.114[
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It's the kind of detailed withdrawal that makes for excellent headphone music.
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It's fun to hear Black Dice go straight for the jugular throughout the aptly-titled Load Blown, and hit the mark every time.
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the disc is refreshingly user-friendly.
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Load Blown does more than enough to keep "very" and "awfully," respectively, in the mix.
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BlenderThis is mostly music to zone in and out of--periodically, new sounds and rhythms croip up and coexist in rough approximation of grooves, catching the ear; other times songs drone in the background, either beatifically ot forgettable. [Nov 2007, p.146]
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Load Blown is damaged as a whole, even despite its overwhelming internal coherence that makes for few surprises along the way.