Black Dresses - LAUGHINGFISH (2024) [Hi-Res]

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Title: LAUGHINGFISH
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Blacksquares Media
Genre: Pop Rock, Trip Hop
Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 76 min
Total Size: 526; 910 MB
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In early 2020, following a rapid—and unexpected—spike in TikTok success, Canadian noise-pop duo Black Dresses, aka Devi McCallion and Ada Rook, announced their plans to lay the project to rest. (I’ve detailed their reasoning behind that decision elsewhere, but in a nutshell, blame it on obsessive fans with no understanding of boundaries.) When they suddenly resurfaced the following year with Forever In Your Heart, an album regarded by many as their opus, I suspected they’d backtracked; when they dropped the follow-up, Forget Your Own Face, thirteen months later, I outright assumed it. This week, I’ve got good news and bad news: the good news is that Black Dresses are back with, LAUGHINGFISH another stellar, surprise-released LP; the bad news is that they’re officially donezo, as Rook said on Twitter: “This is the last one.” If you’ve yet to try Black Dresses’ chromed-out bubblegum, do yourself and change that this time around: from Nine Inch Nails-y industrial pop (“CAT CUP”) to brassy noise rock (“PURE REALITY”), to trip-hop-tinged screamo (“GOOD THINGS HAPPEN”), there’s never a dull moment on LAUGHINGFISH. If this is indeed the duo’s concluding work, then it’s one hell of a capstone. If it’s not, then we should consider ourselves immensely lucky indeed.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Black Dresses - FANTA (2:54)
1.02 - Black Dresses - FEEL SOMETHING (2:52)
1.03 - Black Dresses - CAT CUP (3:21)
1.04 - Black Dresses - BAD VEGGIES (2:55)
1.05 - Black Dresses - WOUNDED ANIMAL (3:57)
1.06 - Black Dresses - GOOD THINGS HAPPEN (5:05)
1.07 - Black Dresses - DON'T FORGIVE THE WORLD (2:35)
1.08 - Black Dresses - THE WORLD (3:02)
1.09 - Black Dresses - PURE REALITY (4:51)
1.10 - Black Dresses - IF YOU FIND ME GONE (5:36)
1.11 - Black Dresses - LAST LOVE SONG ON THIS LITTLE PLANET (2:54)
1.12 - Black Dresses - I STILL SEE EVERYTHING (2:43)
1.13 - Black Dresses - STOOPID DREAM (2:49)
1.14 - Black Dresses - 1-800-THE-MOON (3:01)
1.15 - Black Dresses - MAGIC EYE (2:29)
1.16 - Black Dresses - ROTATION (2:40)
1.17 - Black Dresses - NO DAYS OFF (4:01)
1.18 - Black Dresses - CHAMPION IN DECAY (3:10)
1.19 - Black Dresses - CAN'T KEEP THE KNOTS OUT (3:30)
1.20 - Black Dresses - IT'S PROBABLY FINE (4:34)
1.21 - Black Dresses - ZERO FANTASY (4:19)
1.22 - Black Dresses - SILENCE (3:43)