Roll the Dice, "Iron Bridge"
» Dark and dramatic for the miniseries that is your dreary existence.
Roll the Dice, In Dust (The Leaf Label)
Roll the Dice make music that should be comfortable with the modal tropes of "atmospheric" and "moody"; that's what seems to fall through the cracks on the various instrumental excursions on In Dust, a relatively eclectic long player out currently on The Leaf Label. There's dollops of drone and meditative score montage synthetics lined with touches of piano and a pleasant sense of the line between dense layering and overbearing noise textures. There's even some glitch and a kind of half-timed, low-end-heavy dubstep on tracks like "Cause and Effect". Here we have the pleasure of sharing the album's lead-off track, "Iron Bridge", which takes its time getting started, leading us blindfolded over the misty escarpment and down into the valley of righteous drone and trembly string dramatics where a dozen voices mutter in percussive tongues through the audible haze.
Posted on November 01, 2011. More on: roll the dice, the leaf label
