Album Rating: 3.5
Live at Third Man Records: https://soundcloud.com/user-424571787/sets/boris-live-at-third-man-records
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Never heard anything by these guys. Where would I start if I wanted to get into them?
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amplifier worship
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Akuma no Uta or Feedbacker @Confessed
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Pink. Also you may want to check the wording in your last sentence.
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These guys blew my fucking mind a few years back in Boston. And then one of the band members proposed to his girlfriend on stage. It was pretty adorable.
Atleast I'm pretty sure it was a band member, I was pretty drunk.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Jesus, don't tell him to start with Feedbacker.
In my humble and probably wrong opinion you should start with Noise. It's an excellent album that's almost a retrospective of their entire career and all the different genres it entails.
From there it's really a question of which iteration of the band you want to listen to.
Heavy Rocks '03 is the best showcase of their balls to the wall stoner metal sound. Akuma No Uta is more rock n roll oriented but much in the same vein. Pink expands on that same sound with some shoegaze and drone flourishes. Heavy Rocks '11 is a fantastic album that pulls from all of the aforementioned, and while it isn't their best as a whole, the two long songs from it are easily among their best individual tracks. Also the solos across this whole album were seemingly sent up to Wata from Satan himself.
Feedbacker, Flood, and Absolutego are all single tracks that clock in at an hour plus. They're all lumbering beasts that are nearly impenetrable on first listen, but holy fuck are they worth giving the time to, especially Flood.
Amplifier Worship is the epitome of their heavy stuff, it's the complete heavy music experience that runs the gamut from stoner to classic rock n roll to drum n bass to drone and everything in between.
Their new album DEAR hearkens back to the days of their creeping, crawling sludge a la Absolutego and Amplifier Worship, and it's a treat to hear their mastery of drone and doom music after 25 years honing their craft.
Then there's the pop side of them that they explore occasionally. Sometimes a pop track will appear between aural bludgeonings on their full lenghths (Taiyo No Baka in the dead center of Noise,) tt's most prominent on New Album and Attention Please, the latter a dream pop and shoegaze oriented affair where Wata handles all the vocal duties.
So yeah basically Boris is okay and all but my biggest complaint is that they just aren't DIVERSE enough.
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Saw these guys two weeks ago and it was the loudest thing ever.
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Damn, I've heard pretty much all of Boris' studio albums and I think they're pretty diverse, or at least great at reinventing themselves at different points of their career... I mostly rec'd Feedbacker cos it was my first Boris album lol
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Akuma No Uta is a way better start than Feedbacker I would try that 1
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Album Rating: 4.5
The part about them not being diverse was sarcasm. They do pretty much every genre except rap and country.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Oh hey the first time it’s been apparent that I have two accounts cause I forgot my password but I’ve been logged in on my phone for years with the password saved
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Album Rating: 3.5
Will have a stream and some revisions ready when I get the chance.
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"These guys blew my fucking mind a few years back in Boston. And then one of the band members proposed to his girlfriend on stage. It was pretty adorable. "
I was at that show! At the Paradise.
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Album Rating: 3.5
link is up~
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Feedbacker was my first Boris, culled from the sputnik charts a decade back when it was sput canon. Maybe it's not the ideal form to showcase the many directions Boris could take a new listener but I owe my love of post-metal, drone and noise to that record completely rearranging my brain musically.
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same for me. back when it was canon lol well-put. I remember traveling and on late evening walks around new cities I’d put it on my ipod, when ipods were also canon.
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