Boris | Akuma No Uta
CD / Picture LP | Southern Lord
02 Ibitsu
Starting off with a Earth-esque drone-metal intro, the record then slams into the riffed-out, noisy stormer "Ibitsu". Distorted, manic, tear-shit-up stuff. After another song in the same Hendrix meets the Stooges style psych-punk rawk vein, Boris switch gears again, for the album's centerpiece, a twelve-minute opus entitled "Naki Kyoku" that begins all super languid, quiet and pretty before building into a soaring psychedelic jam. The jams continue on the next track, another in the red Garage stompin' blow-out. Finally, title track "Akuma No Uta" winds things up with a return to the immense sludge grind of track one, melded into a headbanging groove, ending the disc on an adrenaline high. Boris adds a unique experimentalist ambience to all they touch. Which perfectly explains their involvement and collaboration with such cult-experimental artists like MERZBOW, and Keiji Haino.
Every release from this group is diverse and colossal in its own right. Boris also incorporate elements drawn from other sources, including psychedelic rock, garage rock, metal, noise, minimalism, and pure sludge-drone. Akuma No Uta is now available in Europe for the very first time with a cover that perfectly recreates Nick Drake's Bryter Layter! Except with double neck electric guitar-bass instead of acoustic guitar. Beautifully packaging in a digipac case with design by the band and Stephen O' Malley (khanate, sunno))), and the majority of Southern Lord releases).
