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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Boris splits, 7inches, and a soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist

Boris has released some singles, comp tracks, and 7inches that contain songs already on their full lengths so i have omitted them.


1997 split with Barebones
 - Heavy stuff in the vein of Amplifier Worship (includes the songs "Soul Search You Sleep," "In Hush," and live recordings of "Scar Box" and "Mosquito").




2005 Soundtrack from the film Mabuta No Ura (both Catune and Essence versions) - "Mabuta No Ura" means "Under the Eyelids" and it is not a real film but rather the result of the band imagining a film in their heads and writing the soundtrack to it. The album is very driven on photography and art-styling.
The Catune version of the CD can be found in local music stores and online. It has a brown packaging and story cards with photos and the stories and lyrics in Japanese. Inoxia released this on LP with a different cover and photo book, limited to 600 copies. The Essence version of the album, limited to 2000 copies, has a different arrangement and songlist to the other versions, along with the LP album cover. It is depicted with the story card materials and lyrics in English and numerous photos. There is also a box-set edition containing art prints, flyers, and a bunch of dead flowers. This box-set is limited to 199 hand-numbered copies." - wiki






 2006 More Echoes, Touching Air Landscape (split with Choukoku no Niwa)- This split is ridiculously good. "Kanau" is split into two parts, the first being a progressive ambient drone melody, and the second being a really heavy rock (think "Hama") epic.






2009 Chapter Ahead Being Fake [FLAC] (split with Torche)- This split rips pretty hard. Torche's "King Beef" (which I will upload with a full Torche discography asap) is really good and Boris' "Luna" sounds completely different from any other Boris song you'll ever hear....and then it gets heavy out of nowhere at the end.



2009 Golden Dance Classics (split with 9dw) - These songs are pretty poppy but i like them alot. 


2009 Japanese Heavy Rock Hits - Vol. 1's "8" is sweet and "Hey Everyone" is decent.




2009 Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol. 2 - i'm not really a big fan of either of the tracks on Vol. 2... "Black Original" is ok i guess.  




 
2009 Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol 3. - definitely the best of the series. the first track is beautiful and features Wata on vocals and the second track is ambient heaviness in the vein of Flood part III. 

 

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