» We recently covered Black Dice's appearance at Le Poisson Rouge, but Eric Copeland was back a week later with a solo opening slot for the rare White Magic live performance.
Text by Jeremy Krinsley
Posted on March 02, 2009
Copeland's solo work allows space and light into the normally claustrophobic electricity of Black Dice tunes, and the results are singularly dubby. White Magic appeared in their most pared-down essence, sans bassist, focusing in on their signature call and response of arpeggios between Mira Billotte's piano/vocals and Sleepy Doug Shaw's guitar.
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did you see them live in the early days?
— jay on February 28, 2009
Brilliant review, loved the paintings. They had a very mid-world mystical feeling to them.
— maureen renahan on February 28, 2009
I liked the review and the paintings that went along with the review were really well done.
— Jenna K on February 28, 2009
yeah, i dont completely disagree.. i dont see it as a progression towards some monolith of perfection as much as a jam session that shows where they are right now. i dont agree that that is throwing in the towel, though
— jeremy on February 27, 2009
art school is a waste of money
— ka on February 27, 2009
dig the paintings.
— 1dove on February 27, 2009
fair enough, but whatever was going through their heads during this session is certainly beyond me- i can't imagine listening back to these takes and thinking I would want to show them to anybody, let alone charge people money to buy them...
— cecil on February 27, 2009
damn karen, go to art school
— noGOOGLE on February 27, 2009
awesome review, seriously. i'm amped for repo
— theFMLY on February 27, 2009
similar to their Paw Tracks brethren Animal Collective, I find the earlier work to be wankery. Just some dudes getting off on their own ability to alienate with noise. I found myself waiting for special moments of break beats or dance rhythms. This album gives me something more than noise noodling beyond me. or maybe I just like how the first songs sounds like the Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids theme remixed electro.
— blake on February 27, 2009
yea that's cool, i love black dice but repo feels less like you descirbed and more like black dice throwing in the towel and saying "we don't care anymore, let's just shit this one out and add 20 pages of visuals and people will buy it"
— cecil on February 27, 2009
increible. that's spanish for incredible, or english without the 'd'.
— moo time on February 27, 2009