MiNi Reviews

Black Dice Creature Comforts DFA Records

Dub and tropicalia thrown into a mixer of experimental noise. This very esoteric band is in a league of their own. This beautiful music creates lush soundscapes that envelop the listener. Creature Comforts is less monumental than Beaches and Canyons but the songs are shorter and this allows for more repeat listening. A great introduction to this cutting edge band.

Action, Action Don’t Cut Your Fabric to This Year’s Fashion Victory Records

This record is pathetic, I can imagine it now…………. Some of the Victory Records employees sitting around crying about how their emo/hardcore/emocore/Thursday style music aren’t drawing ladies/money to their terrible label. They turn on MTV2 and Hot Hot Heat and Interpol videos come on and they decide they need a dance band. So we get this awful band—I hope they get beat up by the guys from Hatebreed in the Victory Records bathroom by accident.

Black Eyes Cough Dischord Records

The Black Eyes’ final record is quite the departure from their first. Saxophone influenced heavily by James Chance highlights the jerky rhythms. Cough is all over the place with two drummers, and two vocalists going at each other. Less rigid and more experimental, many were disappointed by this record. Personally, I find it amazing and wish they had not called it quits.

Black Dice/Wolf Eyes Collaboration Fusetron Records

This sounds more like Black Dice than Wolf Eyes. Well perhaps some of the material from Wolf Eyes’ Slicer is reminiscent of this collaboration. Essentially this is the more comfortable ambient sounds of Black Dice mixing with the less aggressive yet still very evil/uncomfortable sounds of Wolf Eyes.

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