Pitchfork

Eric Copeland's upcoming Hermaphrodite certainly sounds like a solo album by a member of Black Dice who also works as Terrestrial Tones with Avey Tare from Animal Collective. It contains the same abstract inclinations, a similar electronic palette, and also tends toward the weirdly, queasily psychedelic. But compared to the last few records from his other projects, I'm hearing a lot more joy and playfulness from Copeland solo. Nowhere is this more evident than on "Green Burrito", a huge whoosh of chanted voices, drums, pedal steel guitar, and analog synths that sounds like a promising new wave band being fed skinny-tie-first into a wood chipper. It doesn't progress like a song; Copeland just builds a little world and props it up for a while before letting it sink back into the earth. But it is tremendously exhilarating while it lasts.

[From Hermaphrodite; due 08/14/07 on Paw Tracks]