Boris
Pink

The Boris are a headless monster, or perhaps they have infinite heads: Japanese, guitar-bass-drums, active since 1992, with countless releases on numerous editions and labels, numerous stylistic deviations and contaminations, a series of collaborations among which the project Sunn O))) & Boris stands out, father of an excellent album, Altar.

This "Pink" is nothing but one of the countless heads of this monster: a screaming beast, master of a perverse yet festive, rocking, and adrenaline-charged sludge. The distortions become enormous, grating, something that simple speakers or a pair of headphones can only partly convey: the sound becomes almost a pure vibration, a true wall of sound that shakes inside - echoes of shoegazer and drone, genres into which the band pours a considerable part of its most intimate essence - as the first track really well expresses, 7 minutes and 33 seconds of distorted and deeply resonant echoes, purifying sounds, somewhat spatial, undoubtedly psychedelic, as emphasized by the dreamy voice, also rich in echo and depth.

Starting from the second track, however, things change: they are still themselves, yet they seem to have changed their mind. So far they have cradled your psychedelic greed; now they will see to it that your bones tremble. The furious rock'n'roll/sludge ecstasy that the band produces fulfills this promise. It continues even when the rhythms slow down in Electric, a triumph of drones and screaming feedback on a pounding sludge carpet…

Yet it seems just an impression, a phantom mirage, because soon the band resumes its eccentric rock'n'roll mantra, only to conclude it in over ten minutes that seem to want to merge both the distorted and psychedelic projection of the beginning, with echoes of feedback and drone, and the insane rock fury that they subsequently operated, marrying pounding, repetitive riffs with a frenetic and yet also psychedelic rhythmic carpet.

This album, criticized by some as too frivolous and noisy without going anywhere, I instead feel like recommending it to you, without too many pretensions: it is a sincere album, an album that entertains, which maybe doesn't delve too deeply... and yet give it a try anyway, and you'll see that it will still manage to take a bit of your infamous and dissolute soul.