BLACK DICE
ANNOUNCE A NEW ALBUM, MOD PROG SIC, OUT 1 OCTOBER 2021
THEIR FIRST IN ALMOST 10 YEARS
LISTEN TO THE FIRST TRACK HERE
DEBUT RELEASE FOR NEW LABEL, FOURFOUR RECORDS
BLACK DICE have announced details of their first album in almost 10 years. Mod Prog Sic will be the debut release on DFA Records label head and co-founder Jonathan Galkin’s new label, FourFour Records, out on 1 October 2021. The album will be followed by North American tour dates throughout October and November 2021 (full details below).
Listen to ‘White Sugar’, the first taste of what to expect from their seventh long player: https://youtu.be/sYMuTj9ZMOs
25 years on from their formation in Providence, RI, Black Dice return with a wildly propulsive record. Basslines strain at the end of their leashes, tones bounce like gravity is being switched on and off. Their command is absolute, a choreography performed upon listeners. Since their first show in 1997, working at the edges has taught Black Dice the bliss to be found there and Mod Prog Sic is the evidence. If it seems ridiculous to speak of these as pop songs, it’s even more ridiculous to speak of them as anything else.
Black Dice's recorded legacy reveals an obsessive focus, like loner teens taking objects apart to see how they work. This fixation on craft and composition exposes a restlessness that pushes each record to a distinct edge, impossible to conflate with any other entry in their discography, let alone with any other band. Black Dice's disquiet, their relentlessness, their work ethic, their shimmering, howling, lurking thump belongs to them and them only.
Black Dice's recorded legacy reveals an obsessive focus, like loner teens taking objects apart to see how they work. This fixation on craft and composition exposes a restlessness that pushes each record to a distinct edge, impossible to conflate with any other entry in their discography, let alone with any other band. Black Dice's disquiet, their relentlessness, their work ethic, their shimmering, howling, lurking thump belongs to them and them only.
Almost exactly one year on from leaving the now-dormant label DFA behind, Jonathan Galkin has launched FourFour Records to “seamlessly continue on with the artistic, creative work I did for the past 20 years, plus sign artists who I have been eager to work and collaborate with. Black Dice’s Beaches & Canyons (2003) was the first full length album released on DFA, and there could be no more appropriate band in which to launch my new label.” Albums by Matias Aguayo, NHK yx Koyxen, Nik Void (Factory Floor), Benoit & Sergio, Eva Geist, Larry Gus & Katie Alice Greer (Priests) are being completed now.
MOD PROG SIC TRACKLISTING (CAT # FFR 441)
Bad Bet
Tuned Out
Swinging
Scramblehead
White Sugar
Plasma
Big Chip
All The Way
Scramblehead II
Jocko
Downward Arrow
Scramblehead III
BLACK DICE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
26 Oct: San Diego, CA / Soda Bar
27 Oct: L.A., CA / Zebulon (UPEND)
28 Oct: San Francisco, CA / The Chapel
30 Oct: Portland, OR / Holocene
31 Oct: Vancouver, BC / The Biltmore
1 Nov: Seattle, WA / Substation
2 Nov: Boise, ID / Neurolux
4 Nov: Denver, CO / Hi-Dive
5 Nov: Lawrence, KS / Uptown Theater (Encore)
6 Nov: Minneapolis, MN / Turf Club
7 Nov: Chicago, IL / CoProsperity Sphere
8 Nov: Toronto, ON / Adelaide Hall
9 Nov: Montreal, QC / Bar Le Ritz
11 Nov: Boston, MA / The Middle East
12 Nov: Brooklyn, NY / Knockdown Center - NYC Record Release show w/ Xiu Xiu, Hair Bone and more TBA (Early bird ticket bundle avail til 7 July)
Tickets onsale Friday 2 July
Mod Prog Sic will be available on vinyl and digitally on 1 Oct 2021: https://linktr.ee/fourfourrecords
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