Black Dice - Creature Comforts

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I went into this a little annoyed at Hisham's declining influence -- I really liked the song on the Miles of Smiles EP where he starts playing the insane distorted fast pattern midway through all the electronic noise.

I'm on my second listen through the new album. It didn't make the huge impression that Beaches and Canyons did the first time, but it certainly doesn't suck. A lot of the songs seem to focus more on the (surprisingly tuneful) guitar riffs and less on the pulse of the percussion and vocal chanting.

It seems more playful, less scary weed freakouts at 3 am to be found here; more of a music for relaxing in the backyard in the afternoon.

The guitar tone on the first song kinda reminds me of Brown Eyed girl.

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

PS - Still not V∞redoms, good try though!

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Skeleton" is amazing. I remember it well from their gigs last year.
Otherwise, I agree, it could have used more of the freakouts from Miles of Smiles and B&C.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Creature is pretty good, I really dig the rhythm. (Listening to Skeleton now.)

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Are there freakouts on Miles of Smiles? Maybe I wasn't playing it loud enough. I just bought it the other day. Sounded cool though. I definitely want to hear the new one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott, there's this really great part where the drums go INSANE out of nowhere -- I fucking love it. I hope Hisham starts a new band soon. :((((

Anyone know if Pixeltan is becoming reactivated?

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I intended "freakouts" to mean not only rhythmic freakouts (in abundance on B&C) but also "electronic" freakouts, in which things are moving along pleasantly, only to be interrupted by several minutes of noise and wacky spaceship sounds.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I will listen again when I can crank it. (baby and mother might not like it.)

Jon, while I'm here, is that wolf eyes on sub pop a re-release or new stuff? I like it a lot. I bought the vinyl cuz the cover is so groovy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought i remembered someone saying that it is something old, but maybe that was something else.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I love it. Beautiful, engaging record. It is surprising in its departure from Beaches & Canyons, but I commend them for taking a chance, and like the new style a lot (almost a 180 from the ambient noise of their latest efforts). "Skeleton" and the last track are my favorites.

― jordache, Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yea, I think the Wolf Eyes thing shares a song title or something with some other release, but I believe it is all new recordings.

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

hahah, I just put on Karera Musication's soundtrack to Ichi The Killer and realized why Boredoms are so much better than their American Fanboy Imitators.

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://cif.rochester.edu/~xm/wiz/ree-mix0r.mp3

I AM TEH BEST EVAR

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounded pretty cool on my imac's teeny tiny speakers. is that gonna be on yer major label debut?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 16 May 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha ha ha, that was just some crap I did with some crappy radio recordings.

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Sunday, 16 May 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually like night flight quite a lot. bu

t like jon said, it ALL needs MORE DRUMS.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 16 May 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

MORE OF THIS:

http://pratt.edu/~tseelie/bands/hisham-drums.jpg
http://pratt.edu/~tseelie/bands/bd-hisham1.jpg
http://pratt.edu/~tseelie/bands/bd-hisham2.jpg
http://www.lotsofnoise.com/bands/Japanese%20Karoke%20Afterlife%20Experiment/[email protected]

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Sunday, 16 May 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

hisham, hisham, hisham and... ren & charles? hmm.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 May 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard he's drumming for Japanese Karaoke Afterlife 2.

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Sunday, 16 May 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

to clear things up, "Stabbed in the Face" is a brand new Wolf Eyes song. It shares a title with the rarely mentioned split LP with Panicsville.

Glad to help.

― roger adultery, Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, is the stuff on the 12" gonna be on the upcoming Sub Pop album, or is it gonna be different?

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Sunday, 16 May 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Only "Stabbed in the Face I" will be on the album

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 May 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

roger has wulf eyes connextions!@!@!#!@!

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 May 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I know Type O Negative pretty well too

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 May 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

YO, DUDE, BLOODY KISSES WAS LIKE MY FAVORITE ALBUM IN 7TH GRADE!!!!

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 May 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

mine too. I was thanked in the liner notes (go ahead, check) and brother, i scored my share of gothic ass off that, lemme tell ya. Good, good times.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 May 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha. i don't have the album anymore, sadly. sometimes i really want to listen to it and am pained by its absence. but i believe ya.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 May 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

"Creature" is damn fucking good.

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha

BEACHES AND CANYONS = BOREDOMS
CREATURE COMFORTS = 7VO7

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I listened to it one time before and I liked it although I haven't felt the need to listen to it since

i'm re-listening now as I sink into alcoholism

..it sounds good so far

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 6 June 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

TAKES TOO MUCH PATIENCE, LISTENING TO RACEBANNON INSTEAD

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 6 June 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

CHIMES ON BLACK WATER = DUD

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

seriously, how HOTT is dominique leone?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

90, feels like 94.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax! you like pitchblende

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, gygax posted, and then hstencil and jon williams. you guys are like the nu-ilm three muskateers

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

...battling for your attention.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

YES JW VERY MUCH SO!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

crap, weather.com can bite me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

We've gotten a lot of rain this year.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.buddyciancithemusical.com/press/images/fbistalksbuddymed.jpg

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

this also comes up when you google "Providence radar"

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil! that view is pointed @ OLNEYVILLE sort of! Fort Thunder was located somewhere above the roof of the top center building

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lotsofnoise.com/bands/Chinese%20Stars/chinesestars03.jpg

IAN JOHNSON'S EAR

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lotsofnoise.com/bands/Chinese%20Stars/chinesestars01.jpg

AND MORE OF DAVE FISCHER!

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lotsofnoise.com/bands/Daughters/daughters2.jpg

IAN JOHNSON'S FOOT ON LEFT

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like that one OSS CDR that I burned.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

which one?

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 162 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Let me see if Creature Comforts is the one next to turntable I keep putting on.

OK yeah it is. I like that one. The others are pretty sweet too, and I like the Soft Circle and Eric Copeland albums!

― mh, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

by the way, by "ftw" i meant "fuck the world". i have recently been schooled on its alternate "for the win" interpretation.

"fuck the world" for the win

― elan, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

i like parts of CC and i like cone toaster. but B&C ftw

― elan, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

ftw - for the wuck

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

miles of smiles pwns dis

― r1o natsume, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

LIVELOOP

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

erm is that what they sound like live?

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

good good

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

"NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER "

― Zeno, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

live loop sounds like room hum + broken r2d2
best track on the album

― sleep, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

^this

― I know, right?, Saturday, 2 August 2008 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

Night Flight ALMOST sounds like music from a "now the weather sponsored by etc" slot

― I know, right?, Saturday, 2 August 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

shit, what happened to this band? i used to love them but kind of got lost around Broken Ear Record (it really did sound like a lot of skronking to me). can someone who knows better please let me know what recent stuff is worth putting my ear quite near to?

― dog latin, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

I really liked the last two albums, load blown and repo - both full of very strange, almost maniacal, heath robinson-esque, ugly, clattering, technicolor, club-footed robot-sex grooves, the former with occasional tropical island vibes. I dig the fact that they're doggedly ploughing a very unique, idiosyncratic furrow.

― m the g, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

the manoman 12" is maybe my favorite bd release. All the tracks from that are on load blown. I haven't spent any time at all with repo.

― mizzell, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

SPOTTED: bjorn @ new pies n thighs.

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

Repo is awesome, also Eric Copeland put out a couple of awesome albums. A band that have grown and changed but remained consistently awesome (as in Lambs like Fruit, Creature Comforts and Chocolate Cherry could easily be by entirely different bands)

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

This is still my favorite BD record. F U all

― life behind bras (admrl), Friday, 13 August 2010 05:08 (fifteen years ago)

O___________o

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

yes

― life behind bras (admrl), Friday, 13 August 2010 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

SPOTTED: bjorn @ new pies n thighs.

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:24 PM (4 months ago)

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 06:12 (fifteen years ago)

I don't even know what that is

― life behind bras (admrl), Friday, 13 August 2010 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

This is still my favorite BD record. F U all

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 August 2010 07:40 (fifteen years ago)

pies n thighs = how 2 eat fatty dinner

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 August 2010 07:43 (fifteen years ago)

Black Dice is a band I should love on paper but they've never fully done it for me. Saw them live for the first time in years last month and it was acceptable. Saw Eric Copeland solo last year and it was not acceptable. Distorted noise "rapping" FTL.

― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:10 (fifteen years ago)

LISTEN TO CREATURE COMFORTS AND BE AMAZEED

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:24 (fifteen years ago)

IT IS LIKE KING SUNNY ADE BEING EXPLODED ON A VERY NICE AFTERNOON PLUS YEAH

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:25 (fifteen years ago)

really seriously favorite shit

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:25 (fifteen years ago)

yeah this is my favourite bd record too. srsly awes band.

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:30 (fifteen years ago)

liveloop ffs

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:30 (fifteen years ago)

F F S

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:34 (fifteen years ago)

^^^

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 09:40 (fifteen years ago)

i tihnk people who like this record would also like eric copeland's doo doo run 7". Little busted, dirty pop songs made from trash.

― mizzell, Friday, 13 August 2010 14:04 (fifteen years ago)

also has a funny cover
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7CEW8cXxyIk/TA0cD34iVvI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/Fh7pAlhZF3k/s1600/eric-copeland-doo-doo-run.jpg

― mizzell, Friday, 13 August 2010 14:05 (fifteen years ago)

and that tropical vibe of CC

― mizzell, Friday, 13 August 2010 14:07 (fifteen years ago)

will check cuz tripical vibe is the best part

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 13 August 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

my favourite black dice is still the gravity 7". i do like the hippyjam stuff but it gets gradually less and less interesting after cone toaster

― that habit kick man (r1o natsume), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

actually saying that, i'm quite a big fan of mile of smiles

― that habit kick man (r1o natsume), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)

i think the gravity 7 is the only release i've never heard?

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

Cold Hands is my other favourite, its the one that stands in for their whole arc: HC thrash, ~atmospherics~ home-soldered electronics.

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

I don't really remember the gravity 7" too well but the semen of the sun 7" is pretty great little slab of harsh, noisy hardcore.

― original bgm, Friday, 13 August 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

this, miles of smiles, and roll up/drool are my favorite BD records. B&Cs has aged pretty poorly IMO

― 69, Friday, 13 August 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

i dont think so, but then i got into Black Dice after that record and i never thought it was one of the best.

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

i think it was an awkward step -- they wanted to be PSYCHEDELIC, and they seemed too locked into a rock version of psychedelia or something.

― 69, Friday, 13 August 2010 22:01 (fifteen years ago)

and when they let go of the signifiers of rock, they succeeded more at psychedelia, i think.

― 69, Friday, 13 August 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

i think beaches and canyons is fantastic. its all about hisham bharoocha's drums on that record

the gravity 7" is basically noisy hardcore, but there's something so nihilistic about it that somehow always draws me back

― that habit kick man (r1o natsume), Friday, 13 August 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

i dont know -- tribal psych-rock drumming got really played for me, around 2005. i liked SEADRUM/HOUSE OF SUN, but seeing boredoms that year, it was like, MEHHHHHH

― 69, Friday, 13 August 2010 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

wasnt beaches and canyons 2004?

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

wait 2002 even earlier

― plax (ico), Friday, 13 August 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i just think it hasnt aged well since 2005

― 69, Friday, 13 August 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

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