a r t i s t : Boris
t i t l e : Smile
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Southern Lord
c a t : SUNN92
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Psychedelic Rock
r l s. d a t e : Mar/2008
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 67,2 MB
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* props to COR for the jp version of this album.
The Japanese and Southern Lord versions of this album have
different covers, different tracklistings, different versions
of the same tracks, different smells most likely. Some of the
tracks on here will be familiar to anyone who saw them at ATP
last December (or I would assume, their other non-Altar shows
at the same time). In particular I distinctly remember their
version of the hippily-titled ôFlower Sun Rainö rising from
betwixt the curtain of dry ice and the colossal wall of
speakers; the version on here adds some guitar from their
collaborator on Rainbow, Michio Kurihara. ôYou Were Holding An
Umbrellaö starts off similarily, a slowed down Damo-era Can
ballad perhaps, before being split asunder halfway through by
some doom-metal chords. It then goes somewhere else entirely,
guitarist Wata taking the whole thing to the moon with some
coruscating white noise. And not for the first time: on ôLaser
Beam/Shootö she seems maniacally inclined to destroy her
speakers, this tiny human producing the biggest noise, like
the high end shrieking of a million metallic blackbirds. The
huge untitled track that sits glowering astride the second
half of the album is hard to ignore, lumbering as it does from
spacey Popol Vuh ambience to droning whiteout, picking up
Stephen OÆMalley and an addictive repeated vocal refrain on
its epic journey.
By virtue of its variety, invention, and
(most importantly) the plethora of sick guitar noises
contained herein, this may well be my favourite Boris album.
However they slice and dice these tracks for serving over
here, itÆll be worth the wait (more so than my wet cabbage was
anyway). Smile is available in April from Southern Lord.
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01-Flower Sun Rain [07:27]
02-Buzz-In [02:57]
03-Laser Beam [04:30]
04-Statement [03:24]
05-My Neighbour Satan [05:18]
06-No Ones Grieve [08:58]
07-Bonus Track [15:29]
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48:03 min