I Am Curious, Pink
Even the New York Times' Kelefa Sanneh is digging Japane stoner sludge metal trio Boris' new "Pink". Of course, I hope my copy comes with the original case:
beautiful all-pink packaging [...] including the translucent booklet cover and the insert that looks like 89 acid tabs: three panels of 30, with one missing.The only thing that's wrong with that description is that Kalefa's done more tabs of acid than he's designed for print, according to reader Glenn:
[T]hey may look like 89 acid tabs to Mr. Sanneh, but [...] said "tabs" are in fact perfect parodies of the Pantone chips used in color control for print media. (This is quite in keeping with Boris the band's double life as a design firm.)That said, I'm buying Pink next time I go to the store. Even if the artist-title pair sounds like the sort of music best described as "Masiecj and I do part-teee, jess?", if guitars have ever permanently damaged your hearing, you have no excuse for not downloading this track.
Boris - "6を3つ" (MP3 link removed)
If anyone can translate the tracklist, the English-speaking hard-rocking world will thank you.
Posted at 1:29 AM in MP3
that album rocked my face off. i don't have a face any more.
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jeez, i thought they were just another of Pitchfork's Bitches.
You mean i should actually listen to it??
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Boris exists totally independent of Pitchfork's Johnny-come-lately interest. Many of their albums are just as good or better than "Pink." Worth getting just as much: The Melvins "Bullhead."
Also, Scott, good luck finding it for a reasonable price. Until Southern Lord puts it out in April, it's gonna cost upwards of $30 a pop.
The tracklist (not my translation):
01. (Parting)
02. Pink
03. Woman Of A Screen
04. Regardless It Is Not Separately
05. Blackout
06. Electric
07. False Bread
08. It Paints (pays?) To Be the Flame
09. 6 3
10. My Machine
11. When We Are Thrown Away
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Here's a slightly more accurate translation (by me) of some of those titles:
04. Nothing in Particular
07. Imitation Bread
08. Weak Flame
09. Three Sixes
11. Where You Threw Me Away
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It's music for people who don't like music.
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Oh, I thought this was about the get-this-party-started Pink. Not interested.
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OM has it on their website for $25.
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Hey Steve, I know you said that Southern Lord is releasing it in April, but do you, or does anyone know the exact date?
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Okay Scott, my mind is officially blown. A Boris post?? If you start posting SunnO))) mp3s I might just freak out. Stereosludge.com!
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KELEFA was once Kal and and was a mid 90s basement rocker while at Harvard. That's great and everything but I can't take anyone's opinion seriously who wanted to stick it to the man by screaming in a basement while playing bad grindcore. The natural transition from freedom fighter basement core guy is smart metal noise Southern Lord dude. File under : Not Interested
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Good record, here are some samples.
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/audio/borispink1.m3u
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/audio/borispink2.m3u
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/audio/borispink3.m3u
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if i had about 20 beers in me, with appliances readily available to be thrown about the room, i could see myself liking this.
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check out my blog @ independentrock.blogspot.com
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Even though, if you really wanted to, you coulda got your grubby mitts on this last year, I'm still counting it for 2006, and it's a pretty damned solid #3 behind Mogwai and Ester Drang. I love the way this album moves from a pretty, expansive MBV type sound to just some hard-rocking metal, then to just metal sludge, before coming back to the MBV sound of the first song. I was kind of disappointed to see Pitchfork get turned on to this, though I'm beginning to suspect it's really only one guy there who champions it to be different from the rest of the Pitchfork guys and gals.
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This song sounds kind of like dronier, vocally weaker and generally less good DFA79. Though I get the impression they've been around longer than Jesse+Sebastien though.
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I like the I Am Curious Yellow/Blue reference in the title of the post. Anyone else catch that?
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oh man, i was expecting Pink the artist. I should really read a post before clicking on an MP3 haha
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Someone's giving Kinski a run for their money!
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first, his name is kelefa, dude, and secondly what's up with the "even *he* likes it" construction? he's regularly up on indie bands your blog doesn't post about until pitchfork has given them an 8.6, plus he also deigns to write about music made by black people, including some who are not in post punk bands, which, believe it or not, makes the times music coverage 1000% more radical than stereogum's.
the whole 'we're hip, they're square' conceit doesn't quite work when you give out xboxes next to leaked strokes mp3s. doofus.
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Well Duke, you had a great point... right up until you equated covering music made by black people with anything "radical." Music made by black people was dominating the charts in this country last time I looked. Music made by, say, Death Cab For Cutie? Not so much. Which is great, because DCfC is terrible. But your argument loses a little steam.
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this is really not that good...
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Great post in my opinion, but just wanted to point out that you should direct your feedback to Jim, who posted it. (After every post on Stereogum, it says who posted it, in case you were missing that.)
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Calum - I Am Curious, Yellow was also the first thing I thought of when I saw this post. nice catch!
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I didn't mean for it to sound like Kelefa was unhip- he's got good taste in both hip and square music. I also (mostly) agree with him about rockism. I don't have time to get into it, but I feel like you're dragging out a pet peeve just because I misspelled his first name at 1 am, after a couple drinks. The "Even" that started the post was more about it being the New York Times, and less about it being Kelefa.
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awesome did anybody get the bonus track that was on Morrocanrole blog last week its killer I think this album is going to be better than the Nick Drake cover one
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Boris has been around for a very long time. Most of their records are hard to find in the States, and when you can find them they are really expensive. Check eBay. Not all of their music is feedback noise fuck. Some of their songs actually sound like Monster Magnet, no joke.
But for the most part they are a total rip off of the Melvins early stuff. I consider them a cover band, sort of like the way SunnO))) is a Earth cover band. The amps used by the band Earth were made by Sunn. Check it out.
http://www.sunnamps.com/
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Now that's what I'm talking about. GoldenNose, I used to really dig Monster Magnet but since they've replaced all the members except Dave, I haven't been too impressed. Where would I want to look if I wanted Monster Magnet-esque Boris? Where would I look if I wanted Boris at there Melvins-y-ist?
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