DFA and Fat Cat Years
Four months after recording with Wolf Eyes they would record Beaches and Canyons. The release of the album Beaches and Canyons on DFA/Fat Cat and its follow-up, 2004's Creature Comforts saw the band reaching a worldwide audience. The album would later be awarded by Pitchfork Media as number 97 of The Top 100 Albums of 2000-04.
In spring of 2004, the band parted ways with long-time drummer and friend Hisham Bharoocha. the band was set back with the departure of Bharoocha and their cancellation of a heavily-planned tour co-headlined by their friends Animal Collective. Nonetheless, reduced to a trio, Black Dice recorded Broken Ear Record in Australia in early 2005. Without a drummer, their music took another turn towards Afrobeat and breakbeat. Metamorphosed once again, Black Dice emerged as a tight compositional unit, with little emphasis remaining on improvisation or long-form songs. A near-pop sensibility was embraced, with shorter and catchier tunes. Also in 2004, the band's song "Skeleton" was featured in HBO's documentary Thinking XXX. Though they were not included in the film's soundtrack the song is listed in the films credits.
In summer 2005, the group released its first non-music object; a 128-page book of collage art made in collaboration with photographer Jason Frank Rothenberg.
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