BeSt BORIS AlBuM PoLL

On the other hand, Shonen Knife also contribute a song on there, which seems a bit strange.

Explains why Takeshi and Atsuo look so femme in that middle pic.

Been re-listening to Akuma No Uta and Pink a lot in the last few weeks and I've enjoyed them a hell of a lot. It's been a while. I didn't keep up after Pink - which of the last few albums are most worth my time and money please?

Oh I have Rainbow and Altar as well. I should find them in "the box" in the attic.

What is with all these 2011 albums?

Smile [Japanese version, please] is great. I never got into any of those three albums that all came out at the same time, but I was happy when "Pary Boy" came on unexpectedly when I was listening to a failed compilation of mostly year end favorites I had put together. I still haven't heard the album that came out this year.

Second the Japanese version of Smile, a less extreme and more poppy version of Akuma and Pink but still heavy and Satan worshipping.

Never bothered much with the 2011 trilogy, but if you like '80s thrash, the full version of "Czechoslovakia" is hella worth tracking down.

"Pary Boy" of course should have been "Party Boy."

"Pary Boy" looks more like a Butthole Surfers title: "No it's really supposed to be 'Pary Boy!'"

How many rock bands as good or better are there, among Boris's contemporaries? Not very many.

they didn't release a really good record for at least 5 years so..

the new album rules, maybe my favorite of theirs since smile. the poppier songs are gorgeous and sort of have an... emo feel?

been leaning in that direction since akuma no uta, imo, but i haven't heard the new one, so maybe you mean in a new way?

maybe more transparently than ever, or something

Three new albums from Boris, plus a collaboration with a Japanese metal band (I think I read this is cassette only), and a Nirvana cover.

boris new album 1
New Noise Literacy 003
“urban dance"

1. un, deux, trois
2. surrender
3. choreographer
4. endless
5. game of death

FAS-04/NNL003

boris new album 2
New Noise Literacy 004
"warpath”

1. midgard schlange
2. behind the owl
3. dreamy eyed panjandrum
4. voo-vah

FAS-05/NNL004

boris new album 3
New Noise Literacy 005
"asia"

1. terracotta warrior
2. ant hill
3. talkative lord vs silence master

FAS-06/NNL005

available on merch table!
from may 2nd

https://www.facebook.com/borisheavyrocks/posts/970416566324988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmc656czwYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhor5gj8E4

the lithium cover is so bad.

and hey not this poll's fault for not presaging it but sorry y'all New Album (Daymare version) is Boris' best album 8-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Album

they're at their best as an anime band

the lithium cover is so bad.

It really is. Maybe they hate Nirvana.

It's no "Sometimes," but I think it's more boring than awful. The slow-mo chorus is great.

and hey not this poll's fault for not presaging it but sorry y'all New Album (Daymare version) is Boris' best album 8-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Album

they're at their best as an anime band

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This is the only Boris album I really like, which is odd considering how pop it is. Stuff like Pink is OK but too cheesy rawkin for my tastes, I try to listen to Flood from time to time but I don't think I have the patience for it.

i really like a lot of their other stuff (probably akuma no uta most), but the daymare version of that record (i.e. the one that begins with "flare") is just so virtuoso and fun. i'm bummed that the far more common 'tearbridge' version's sequencing (and i think alternate mixes at times, iirc?) mess it up

I forgot that I liked Noise last year which has a fair bit of rawk on it, my own opinions don't make sense sometimes.

i liked a bit of Noise but it's nowhere close to the variety, cohesion and fun of New Album: Daymare Edition *imo*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQb9x0M0oU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YyhbfcpgY

Boris track stops, but
the drone keeps coming from my
humidifier.

did anybody get the Pink deluxe reissue?

saw them play pink on the first night of the tour in san diego when i was visiting this summer. it was near enough note perfect with the LP. incredible experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmK_EQWoorM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef8KUvTUcAANsI3?format=jpg&name=small

Worth noting that Boris have really started to go in on their Bandcamp page this year; they had a few things up for a long while but after No came out they started adding more and more from the past to the site:

https://boris.bandcamp.com/

Tomorrow vein, präparat and eternity will be added.

There's a bunch of Boris threads so I'm not sure the most appropriate one, but it's been bumped most recently so...

I mentioned this in the Rolling Metal thread, but the new collaboration with Merzbow, 2R0I2P0 is easily one of the best things I've heard from them in a long time. In addition to some other songs, they take on some songs from LOVE & EVOL, and it really hits on the strengths of both. There is a moment during "EVOL" where Merzbow's got a bed of his usual noise grinding away and a soaring guitar solo starts to pierce through, it's great.

Yeah agreed -- a thrilling album.

I'm genuinely shocked by how good it is. I feel like they've been increasingly hit or miss in recent years and that my days of being absolutely wowed by them were in the past, but happily proven wrong with this one.

New album in January

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/w

And new single now, with a rather good cover version

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/no-l

there was a new single last month too, kind of a tie-in with a boris guitar pedal that earthquaker devices just launched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTpFrv_Cr-o

New one, W, is great! Love how it builds from like this almost subdued, hazy dreampop vibe and builds the noise and sludge as it goes along.

And a new new one announced

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-rocks-2022

Said new album fucking rules, of course.

I agree. This is great. All these 'Heavy Rocks' are imo

Weird that the 2002 one hasn't gotten a formal rerelease yet. (Glad I have a rip, of course.)

Little late in getting to it but, Ned and gman are correct, the new Heavy Rocks fucking rules.

Would love a rerelease of the 2002 one!

was delighted to discover "rainbow" was available to stream after i'd lost my cd copy and couldn't bear to break the seal on my vinyl copy.

also lol, but perfectly in character with the band, that there are two different boris bands with selective sections of their discography on spotify.

I'm hoping for some sort of physical release for Fade.

Hello, per PR email just now:

Boris To Release Heavy Rocks (2002) Reissue via Third Man Records, Announce Tour with Melvins
The album, never-before-released on vinyl or digital formats, will be available 8/18 (DL) and 9/8 (CD/LP).

Also doing a tour of that album with Melvins (who are doing Bullhead).

August 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco Theater
August 25 Pomona, CA @ Glass House
August 26 Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s
August 27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
August 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
August 29 Petaluma, CA @ Mystic Theatre
August 31 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
September 1 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
September 2 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
September 3 Bozeman, MT @ The ELM
September 5 Fargo, ND @ The Hall at Fargo Brewing Company
September 6 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
September 7 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II
September 8 Chicago, IL @ The Metro
September 9 St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag
September 11 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
September 12 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
September 13 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
September 14 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
September 15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian
September 16 Maspeth, NY @ DesertFest NYC
September 18 Albany, NY @ Empire Live
September 19 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
September 20 Bethlehem, PA @ MusicFest Cafe
September 21 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
September 22 Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
September 23 Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
September 24 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
September 26 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
September 27 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
September 28 Savannah, GA @ District Live
September 29 Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
September 30 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s
October 2 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live - Studio
October 3 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
October 4 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
October 5 Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music Hall
October 6 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
October 7 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
October 9 Denver, CO @ Summit
October 11 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
October 13 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
October 14 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

Double rerelease ahoy of two of the Merzbow collaborations, Klatter and 04092001:

https://borismerzbow.bandcamp.com/music

Are those both new or reissues?

reissues

Really killer new song, "Cry" on the new Twins of Evil split LP. Sadly the Melvins track is just an inessential rework of a song from their latest album, but the Boris track is worth the (cheap!) price of admission.

https://www.shoxop.com/products/melvins-boris-twinsof-evil-cd