Load Blown

Culled from singles for DFA and Paw Tracks, as well as five cuts from an EP released simultaneously with Load Blown, the Brooklyn band's fourth official LP is really more a singles collection than an album but it hangs together well regardless.

Measuring Black Dice by its full-length output can be misleading: The noise outfit has released over a dozen singles, splits, and EPs—yet only three albums—in the last ten years. Load Blown, a collection of the group's most recent EPs, traces an enchanting arc: Black Dice's mutation from proto-industrial assault to…