Pitchfork Forkcast: New Music: Black Dice: "Kokomo" [MP3/Stream]

New Music: Black Dice: "Kokomo" [MP3/Stream]

How badly did you want this, the lead track from Black Dice's forthcoming album Load Blown, to be an electro-pigfuck mangling of the Beach Boys' last #1 hit? Alas, we're not that lucky. Instead, we get another cluster of organic and decidedly odd gurgles from the Brooklyn noiseniks. Disembodied voices are rattling around inside the din here somewhere, but they don't seem like they're in any pain; "Kokomo" even sounds inviting in its own way, not a tropical paradise, sure, but playful and infused with a certain light. It seems like a fleshier continuation of ideas introduced on the "Roll Up" 12", perhaps closer in spirit to upcoming solo material by BD member Eric Copeland. If Black Dice have gotten too abstract for you, imagine Mike Love being crushed underneath the weight of the bassline.

MP3:> Black Dice: "Kokomo"
[From Load Blown; due 10/23/07 on Paw Tracks]