Eric Copeland - Dumb It Down

Eric Copeland - Dumb It Down"Dumb it Down" is the fifteenth solo LP by Eric Copeland of Black Dice, released in 2020 by Post Present Medium, who also released Eric's first solo LP in 2007. Nimble, persuasive, and brisk, these ten songs bounce along with a charm and directness that's entirely unprec edented in Eric's 20+ year career. The evocative, carnival loops that have defined his solo work for the past decade are joined here by the organic warmth of a nylon string guitar and

On the other side of the Iron Curtain

is a bit unusual and that stands out from our other albums

It was more about

question: What is Soft Dick Rock

Ignoring traditional genre boundaries with their distinctive sound

a theme that resurfaces throughout the record ('John the Unready/had a little baby girl last night/now he's halfway across the countryside/saying something's calling me

The Party in Your Head

takes you on a wondrously poetic journey into the band's mythical world and their fevered dreams of Albion

at the time

all official non-album material is finally available in one place

to their individual pasts and the places that inform them

"Akuma no Jigokunabe" and "Harukaze"