Live In Gothenburg - August 7 2010 - 12" EP [Vinyl]

Live In Gothenburg – August 7 2010 captures shadowy Swedish duo, Roll The Dice, in full flight. Avoiding the ‘two-guys-and-two-laptops’ stigma that so often accompanies live electronic music in the digital world, they instead send the grainy buzz of raw synths through a tangled maze of wires and effect processors, lending these extended versions of ‘Undertow’ and ‘The New Black’ a wonderful, edgy sense of spontaneity.
Live In Gothenburg’s taut, almost industrial energy marks the beginning of a thematic transition for Roll The Dice. Where their debut album sung of hope and space, though admittedly cloaked in shades of grey and dark blue, this 12” is pockmarked with the granular, soot-cloaked feel of the big city and the volcanic darkness of its artwork. It’s a heady, trance-inducing combination.