BeSt BORIS AlBuM PoLL

I've been binging lately. Might have to with the original Heavy Rocks, but I like both new records.

I have the two new ones arriving this week—probably today—can't wait

anyone heard 'New Album'?

I've heard all three; to me they go Attention Please > New Album > Heavy Rocks.

UH

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=494958367204146&set=a.186842614682391.42777.186837654682887&type=1

Or as I posted on my Tumblr:

http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/35076271748/to-quote-the-fb-post-boris-next-release-my

they are playing bristol sometime soon (unless i already missed it!)

have been thinking re going along - but haven't they changed their style with recent releases ?

A bit but not that much. Go, and I'll buy you a beer there.

That was a litt e misleading in that at first I thought Boris was recording an entire Loveless tribute by themselves a la Japancakes. Still I'm actually quite the sucker for Japanese tribute albums, since they often tend to have a least one really off the wall interpretation on them and it's been a while since I've seen any new ones arise.

yeah but by the time i shared the status with ned I had realised it was only the one song. I must admit I would have loved it if they had done the whole album.

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

― soyrev, Saturday, 16 May 2015 16:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.