Track Listing

1. Cloud Pleaser
2. Treetops
3. Island
4. Creature
5. Live Loop
6. Skeleton
7. Schwip Schwap
8. Night Flight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133296 in Music
• Released on: 2004-06-29
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Not their best.
not their best work, but one of my favorites. I prefer Beaches and Canyons, it tends to be a bit more ambient. This one is more like they use the noises as paint to make an abstract. I felt like beaches and canyons was more of a landscape; still very abstract.

cloud comforts for pleasing creatures

With Beaches & Canyons, the Black Dice unfold and explore strange, expansive psycho-acoustic territories, assembling an expedition into absorbing, multi-dimensional soundscapes. Creature Comforts isn't so sweeping, and establishes atmospheres on a different scale. It's almost as if, having charted a wide sonic wilderness, the Black Dice now seek to survey it's inhabitants...

Creature Comforts suggests the speakers-static of curious arcades and carnivals after hours, after everyone has gone home and the batteries begin to die, the lights flicker and fade, the trash stirs in the vacant paveways, and the creatures come out: forgotten notes, looping truncated melodies, lazy leftover rhythms, gremlin glitches and meandering dissonances. Their peculiar prowling creates something like an incidental music, happenstance yet almost orchestrated, unassuming yet engulfing...

best cd ive bought in months
best cd ive bought in a long time.