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BORIS  Pink  CD   (Southern Lord)   14.98
Pink IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Here's the stateside release of 2005's Pink, courtesy of Southern Lord. It's a goddamn fantastic new studio blast from the band, starting

off with a bleary haze of gorgeous crumbling shoegazer dirge that almost had us fooled into thinking that Boris was going to start copping Jesu/MBV

moves...but then they explode into that total destructo fuzzbomb rock that has been the focus of most of their recent albums. Eleven tracks of amped-up

stoner/acid rock, saturated in tons of fuzz and reminding us of Guitar Wolf a bit, but totally crushing, every riff is godlike, and the band has incorporated

melodies in a whole new way. Ultra rocking, but Boris also inject some of the other sound forms that they have worked with in the past, moving from crushing

megadrones, to blasts of ferociously noisy punk rock, to grim psych shades, and there is this ridiculously catchy, dare-we-say downright poppy

melodicism that shows up throughout Pink that easily makes this the most accessible Boris album yet, while always remaining a fuzz-drowned

acid/rock/sludge juggernaut. We've been jamming this album NON-STOP here at C-Blast, and we think that this might just be the ultimate Boris album, a

masterpeice of catchy, epic, psychedelic heavy rock.

Stunning package design with deluxe die-cut artwork by Stephen O'Malley reminds us why we will never accept the MP3 as end-game music format: this stateside

edition of Pink comes in gorgeous O'Malley designed case with foldout booklet, inside of which are contained three additinal inserts, all of which

have O'Malley's vector-carnage designs on one side, and the other sides sport assorted Bosch/woodcut/acid trip illustrations, and the insterts themselves are

perforated in the style of a sheet of acid tabs. Fucking amazing. Highly recommended !!!