‘It Gets Darker’ is the second album from London-based electronica artist Dicepeople. Frost loved their first album, ‘Time to Play’and this one is just as good. Dicepeople are stunningly original and wonderfully delicious. A great band who should break through into the mainstream in 2012.
The album will be released on 28 October 2011 on Sonic Serendipity, and it will be
available at music.dicepeople.org for free download and to purchase on CD.
‘It Gets Darker’ is so named because it explores themes relating to the dark side of
humanity. It’s darker and heavier than the first Dicepeople album ‘Time to Play’, which
was released on 13 July 2009 and had significant radio play and great critical feedback:
‘A delicious mix of hard synth-driven electronica and melodic IDM … a 50 minute auditory
delight … bursting at the seams with talent.’ – Connexion Bizarre
‘A substantial release that reinvigorates the energy of the past while keeping a firm grip on the current pulse of electronics … definitely time to play this album from start to end.’ – Igloo Magazine
‘Delicious both to the ears and to the soul … I’m loving every moment on this album.’ –
DARKLIFE fanzine
Dicepeople is a musical project created by Matt Brock. Dicepeople was originally set up in
London, UK in the mid-90s as an electronic side project when Brock was more heavily involved
with industrial acts Noise Union and Replikator. In 2008, however, Brock transformed
Dicepeople into his primary musical project and aimed to take it beyond pure electronic music.
The tagline for Dicepeople is ‘dark electronica for the body and mind’ because Brock’s aim is to
create music that combines driving beats with evocative and emotionally engaging harmonies
and melodies. The music has an electronic foundation with industrial and EBM components,
and it mixes real instruments and voices with synthesisers to add cinematic depth and intensity.
Dicepeople influences cover a very broad range of artists including Art of Noise, Black
Sabbath, Can, Depeche Mode, The Doors, Front 242, The Future Sound of London, Hoodlum
Priest, John Barry, John Carpenter, KMFDM, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, Siouxsie Sioux, Tangerine Dream and Underworld.