Boredoms
Soul Discharge & Early Boredoms

Boredoms: Soul Discharge & Early Boredoms. For over twenty years, the Japanese band Boredoms has been subverting the most varied musical references with no regard for any formal canon, making them absolute aliens even within the vast cauldron of the noise genre, to which they reluctantly belong. Their music is an all-out attack against rock conventions: within the same track, metal, electronics, and all sorts of manipulations are blended together, all with an approach that calling it insane would be an understatement.

Emblematic is the use of the voice: the repertoire of "singer" Yamatsuka Eye consists of inhuman screams, bestial spasms, burps, coughs, childish antics, often accompanied by the disjointed screams of the other band members: Yoshimi P-We and Atari on drums, Yamamotor on guitar, Hira Hayashi on bass. This Soul Discharge provides a measure of the madness guiding the actions of these psychopaths. "Bubblebop Shot" is a frenzied mix of hard guitar riffs, funk hints, gunshots (and the indecent choruses of all band members); "52 Boredom" is a delirious skit threading together new-wave rhythms, childish chants, later overwhelmed by an absurdly mixed synthesizer; "Tv Scorpion" is a raving dance/metal concoction (assuming something like that makes any sense). Accompanying the music are titles like "JB Dick+Tin Turner PussyBadsmell" or "Sun, Gun, Run". As if that weren't enough, the edition of this album published by Shimmy Disc contains another 41 minutes titled Early Boredoms 1982-1987: music and titles like "We Are Punk/Monarchy and Testpoy" (destroy? sic), "Jah Called AC/DC", "God From Anal", "Hairhole Burners", "Ultramagnetic Surfin Bird" represent the unworthy cherry on top of this extravaganza of absurdity in music.