Beaches & Canyons is the first full-length album by experimental noise band Black Dice, released in 2002 on DFA and FatCat.

[10] They subsequently struggled to interest a label in releasing it: "we made this record, and we really liked it, but people we sent it to, we wouldn't hear back from anyone," which Eric described as "not exactly humiliating, but it puts you in your place.

[11] Uncut stated that the group had as "organized their art-skronk into pulsating pieces in an avant-shamanic tradition that includes late Boredoms, early Popol Vuh and Coil.

"[5] Pitchfork called the album "an intense document of Black Dice's evolution—cycling through styles and equipment like they're simple and meaningless tools, eyes on the goal of reorganizing sound and transforming it through sheer volume.

"[2] Tiny Mix Tapes called it "an ethereal journey that will have your mind stimulated and body trembling," consisting of impressionistic "free-form compositions [...] ambiguous melodies and off-kilter polyrhythms.