When you get tired of the more refined sounds of the new noise brigade (Times New Viking, Sic Alps and Tyvek to name a few) and need something that really offends your sensibilities on every sonic level possible, turn to the UK trio known as Black Time. They’ve been around a few years so they aren’t jumping on any bandwagons, except maybe the Kingsmen’s recorded on one mike in a bathtub on the drunkest day of your life wagon, they make most of In the Red’s roster sound like Peter Cetera and their new record Double Negative is so insane, so really and truly in the red that I had my favorite local record store employee talk me out of buying it. Well, you’re wrong this time because Black Time has just the right balance of fuzz and menace, pop and crud, beauty and scuzz. 

“When the Clock Strikes Twelve”
“Scary People”
“I’m Gonna Haunt You When I’m Gone”