20+ Boris Albums

After the ole ball dropped on New Years, I half-heartedly made one of my resolutions to be to cut down on the downloading. The breaking point was the 30-disc Stax Singles box set I picked up off Oink as my account was slowly trinkling towards death last December, and I've sadly lost count of how many gigs of untouched music that lurks on my external hard drive. Such is the plight of the obsessed.

The most flagrant contributors to my habit are the bands that release 30 or so CDs/CD-Rs/tapes/records every year, mostly those in the noise/psych underground. And as much as I want to hear John Olson and crew's Wednesday evening practice session on a limited edition lathe cut picture disc 7", a man cannot live on Scoobie Snacks alone.

Nonetheless, one of the most consistent bands going right now that suffer from record leakage is Boris. Last year's Pink was a lovely grab-bag of the styles and genres the Japanese trio have dipped in and out of since their birth, and rightly catapulted them into the same notoriety as Sunn0))) and even kid-tested, mother-approved Wolf Eyes.

Luckily, someone at Hipinion.com has done all the dirty work of digging up a huge chunk of their albums and posting them in a thread. Not sure how long the links will last, but it's worth a shot...


20+ BORIS ALBUMS

TV On The Radio On The Wedding Video

Perhaps it's just the circumstances of my current job, or my love of found footage, or that both are working simultaneously together to create one of the most simple yet best music videos I've seen in a while. In any event, there's not much to this except some looped video editing, early 90's VHS graphics, and truly priceless haircuts, but when paired with the song, it's surprisingly effective. Best of luck to Sherry and Mark...

Screw Old Man Winter...

So now that the holidays are over, we have nothing to look forward to but winter. Not the fun, first snow-type winter, the one where it's ass-blasting cold out and the roads are a frozen tundra. It hasn't snowed here since early December, but with Colorado getting buried earlier this week, I imagine Chicago can't be too far down on the list...


1-Josephine Foster- "All The Leaves Are Gone"
2-Smog- "Palimpset"
3-Stars of the Lid- "Even If You're Never Awake"
4-W-S Burn- "Untitled #2"
5-Maitreya Kali- "Ice and Snow"
6-Ed Askew- "Mr. Dream"
7-Natural Snow Buildings- "Wisconsin"
8-Bark Psychosis- "I Know"
9-Jandek- "The Cell: Part One"
10-Es- "Pianokaari"
11-Patty Waters- "I Can't Forget You"
12-Taurpis Tula- "Blood Red Lights Across the Snow"
13-Matt Valentine & Eriks Elder- "Lost Lover Blues"
14-Grouper- "Black Out"
15-Axolotl- "Chemical Theatre"
16-Belong- "October Language"
17-The Goslings- "Blood A Necklace"
18-The Rolling Stones- "Winter"
19-Jasper TX- "All The Broken Birds Singing Winter Into Spring"
20-Swans- "Warm"

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