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7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The second album on the Paw Tracks label for the Brooklyn-based experimental group.
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  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Repo isn’t a great progression from previous Black Dice records. But their willfully amateurish approach, and a continued fascination with the coarse and the crude, make this another welcome addition to their woozy, dog-eared oeuvre.
  2. On their sunnily deranged new album, Repo, Black Dice somehow manage to do away with context entirely, constructing music comprised solely of sound effects designed and recorded themselves.
  3. Under The Radar
    70
    Repo improves upon past work and manages to cram more songs with more interesting ideas into the same space as previous releases, while simultaneously becoming a little easier to aproach. [Spring 2009, p.64]
  4. Repo is likeable for all the right reasons. That the band hasn’t challenged themselves or their audience to find new ones is the album’s chief drawback.
  5. Fans will welcome the grotesquely titled 'Ultra Vomit Craze' and 'Gag Shack,' reveling in subtle mood shifts found amid the ferocious racket. Skeptics and nay-sayers will remain unconvinced of the genre's ability to move beyond bratty outbursts.
  6. 60
    Black Dice continues to produce highly interesting music, no doubt, but be warned that it’s not for the faint of heart or imagination.
  7. Repo runs out of ideas so quickly it starts to appropriate its own ideas.

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