Beaches & Canyons

Beaches & Canyons
Studio album by Black Dice
Released September 2002 (2002-09)
Recorded December 2001 by Nicholas Vernhes at the Rare Book Room
Genre Noise rock, Ambient Noise, Psychedelic
Length 59:46
Label DFA, FatCat
Black Dice chronology
Beaches & Canyons
(2002)		 Creature Comforts
(2004)
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Beaches & Canyons is the first full-length album by experimental noise band Black Dice.

Track listing

  1. "Seabird" – 6:37
  2. "Things Will Never Be the Same" – 9:56
  3. "The Dream Is Going Down" – 11:06
  4. "Endless Happiness" – 15:26
  5. "Big Drop" – 16:39

Lineup/Equipment

Shure SM57, 2x Digitech PDS1002s, Flip 2 Power VTX Tremolo, Crybaby Wah, Electro Harmonix Custom Made 40Db Low-Noise Pre-Amp, Behringer Eurorack MX 602A Mixer

Boss Tremolo, Boss Harmonist, DOD Gonkulator, MXR Blue Box, ProCo Turbo Rat, Boss DD5 Digital Delay, Korg Kaos Pad

Ragini Pro Electronic Tambura, Digitech PDS1002, Zvex Wooly Mammoth, Sony AM/FM Radio, DOD Mixer R855, Shure SM57, Sony Tapecorder TC260, Signalflex A/B Box

Shure WH20, Electro Harmonix Poly Chorus, Digitech Whammy Wah, Digitech RDS400 Time Machine