Finally back in stock!

This is the breathtaking soundtrack for an (imaginary) film titled Mabuta No Ura (translated as 'Backside Of The Eyelids'), composed and performed by Boris as a series of guitar-based post rock instrumentals and plaintive drones that are drenched in ambient reverb and feedback. This extended Brazilian edition features exclusive music that was not available on the original Japanese version, and is presented in a stunning package that has a laser-cut box jacket holding a miniature gatefold hardback case and including a set of photo-story cards, in a limited edition of 1,000. It�s absolutely beautiful to hold. This release of Mabuta No Ura features 12 tracks of Boris in their restrained, post-rock mode, but even more abstracted and definitely cinematic, the majority of the music instrumental with dreamy acoustic melodies and wistful, slowly plucked guitar figures, vocals when they do appear doing so cloaked in beautiful shimmering reverb. The second track 'A Bao A Qu' is the only truly heavy song on here, but it's also one of my all time favorite Boris numbers, a monstrously distorted slab of sludge jacked so far into the red that the tones are crumbling in on themselves, burying a perfect pop hook and dreamy Rhodes piano tones under it's weight. That track had previously appeared on a super-limited picture disc EP that Boris released a while back, and as I said it's one of their most beautifully destructive jams. The rest of the album explores more contemplative terrain, simple guitar passages washed with hazy tones and Syd Barret inspired acoustic trances, hypnotic drum circle jams, shambolic psych rock, clouds of blissful free drone, an evocative soundscape projecting a meditative, and heavy-lidded urban dream narrative across your consciousness.