Black Dice - Repo (2009)

Entitled Repo, the record sees the former DFA act going in a slightly accessible direction. We think. Described in the press release as having cultivated a "new roadhouse blues-band philosophy" and having a collection of "concise" songs to show it off, you'd be forgiven for thinking that these tunes will be a kinder and gentler Black Dice. In the same breath, however, we get "sonically battering" and "flat-out bizarre," which for a band that started their career off with a host of legendarily confrontational noise performances before unleashing an almost soothing dub-inspired collection of droning noise rock on their breakthrough album, Beaches and Canyons, is saying quite a bit. Whatever the result, fans of acts like Gang Gang Dance and Fuck Buttons will get their fix come April, once the record is released on Paw Tracks. -Residentadvisor.net

01 Night Cream
02 Glazin
03 Earnings Plus Interest
04 Whirligig
05 La Cucaracha
06 Idiots Pasture
07 Lazy
08 Buddy
09 Inches
10 Vegetable
11 Urban Super Mist
12 Ultra Vomit
13 Gag Shack

Women - Women

Hair Police - Certainty Of Swarms

1. Strict

2. Intrinsic to the Execution

3. Paralysis Simulacrum

4. Mangled Earth

5. On a Hinge

6. Freezing Alone