BLACK DICE SHARE A NEW TRACK, TUNED OUT

BLACK DICE SHARE A NEW TRACK, TUNED OUT

TAKEN FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM, MOD PROG SIC, OUT 1 OCTOBER 2021

DEBUT RELEASE FOR NEW LABEL, FOURFOUR RECORDS

"Max info overlord. Reverse tube loop alright. Trash hits long peak parade. Sweat up.”

BLACK DICE have a shared the latest track from their eagerly awaited new album, Mod Prog Sic, out on 1 October 2021 - their first album in almost 10 years and the first release for DFA Records label head and co-founder Jonathan Galkin’s new label, FourFour Records.

Eric Copeland explains, "Tuned Out was recorded in the valley of LA in 2017, then the session went missing for over 1 year. First song written for Mod Prog Sic and a live favorite". 

Listen to ‘Tuned Out’ here: https://youtu.be/0jX_IrZThps

 

25 years on from their formation in Providence, RI, Black Dice return with a wildly propulsive record for their seventh long player. 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. 

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 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: Kansas City MO / Uptown Theater (Encore) 

6 Nov: St Paul, MN / Turf Club 

7 Nov: Chicago, IL / CoProsperity Sphere

8 Nov: Toronto, ON / Adelaide Hall

9 Nov: Montreal, QC / Bar Le Ritz

10 Nov: Providence, RI / Columbus Theatre 

12 Nov: Brooklyn, NY /  Knockdown Center -  NYC Record Release show w/ Xiu Xiu, Hair Bone and more TBA 

Tickets onsale now

Mod Prog Sic will be available on vinyl and digitally on 1 Oct 2021: https://linktr.ee/fourfourrecords