Michael Patrick Brady

My review of Repo, the new album from noise-rock trio Black Dice, ran today in the Boston Phoenix.

I’m a fan of noisy stuff, and of Black Dice in particular, but something about Repo seemed tossed off. A couple of the tracks were simply terrible, particularly the unfortunate acoustic guitar loop of “Vegetable,” which sounds like a shard salvaged from the garbage of an Animal Collective session. Black Dice should stick to electronic, industrial-influenced noise and leave the breakbeats and loopy acoustics to others.