Reviews

DD/MM/YYYY

CNS - 2009-05-25

Every so often you stumble upon a truly baffling record that leaves you gasping for breath and grasping for words. Black Square is one of those rare albums. Toronto-based DD/MM/YYYY's latest is the equivalent of staring into a space vortex, bombarded by visions you'll initially barely comprehend. You look for meaning in the empty spaces between the frantic drums and staggered guitars-and-synth attacks of "Bronzage" and "Infinity Skull Cube," glimpse at the heart of the universe with "Sirius," and come out a completely different human being shortly after the band's given you a cranium-numbing "Digital Haircut." Does it all make sense? The same way the final sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey made sense, if you will. Black Square bends time and space, trapping you in a dense mesh of punk noise and math rock that will stay imprinted in your neural pathways long after the album's final coda.

Rating: 4/5