(Beauty is the first glimpse of terror we're still just able to bear and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.)

Momus used the first part of this verse from Rilke's first Duino Elegy to describe the new Black Dice album Creature Comforts in this witty review at ILM. Black Dice from Brooklyn are indeed making irritating but very exciting music. They are like an organic Autechre. There are all those little weird sounds (in Creature I hear mice communicating with each other). Never has electronic music sounded so natural. We are not very far from the kosmische Musik of Cluster II or early Tangerine Dream here though this time it is not about pulsars and quasars in outer space but mostly about tiny often terrifying noises on planet earth. You can listen to the album on the DFA radio player. Probably the most innovative release of this year.

P.S. Without Momus and John Darnielle (Mountain Goats) participating in the discussions ILM would be only half as fun. In the recent mega thread on PJ Harvey's Uh Huh Her where Momus defended his critical stance bravely against an armada of PJ lovers (including me) he even made a situationist détournement of one of my replies.