Boris
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked, 2

Boris. One of the most magnificent, experimental, and tremendously ingenious entities currently in circulation. Over 30 works including full-length albums, EPs, live albums, splits, and various collaborations (including the soundtrack for the Japanese film "Magura No Ura") from 1996 to today. An incredible productivity and above all a quality and variety of registers that leave even the most battered Japanese follower speechless.

Getting close to the moniker of Boris is a continuous revelation. Each album is different from the other; each album is increasingly sick, empirical, and absurd, straddling the Melvins-derived Stoner rock that characterized their debut album, then crossing into hallucinogenic realms of Drone, Ambient, Sludge, all seasoned with an acidic psychedelia that revives the sound so popular in the '60s, managing to update it and make it ever more extreme.

I don't know if these Boris are into acids or something else, I just know that approaching their ideas is an incredible experience, definitely worth trying at least once, which goes far beyond the concept of music proper.

"The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2" (the second of three parts released in 2006 all with the same title) is a work in every respect; starting from the formal aspect, so much so that the album was only pressed on colored-transparent vinyl and in strictly limited edition (700 orange copies and 300 green copies), up to, naturally, the quality of the 4 pieces contained here. If among you there is any faithful fan of the land of the rising sun band, you will immediately imagine that any comparison with previous releases should be left aside.

Then take Stoner, Sludge, Drone, Ambient, Psychedelia, Noise, and various experiments, put them in a large blender, and you can roughly get an idea of what lies behind this abundant half-hour of music. An alternation of sound obsessions capable of veering into territories close to those of Sunn O))) (just to mention a more well-known name) and embedding among occasionally pachydermic and essential riffs, distorted and morbid effects, schizophrenic instrumental escapes but always dosed with the right rationality, capable of transforming everything into something out of the ordinary without this resulting in irrationality from the structural point of view. The tracks are completely instrumental, arid, essential, and anguishing; if I wanted to give a single adjective to "TTWSO2," I would certainly say fascinating, as demonstrated by the eight minutes of the opener "No Ones Grieve part2", and the agonizing trips of "Merciless" and "Dual Effusion".

A frighteningly complex album that requires an infinite number of listens to fully grasp its essence, brilliant in giving listeners different sensations each time. I don't think copies of the vinyl in question are still available (which will likely have been snapped up by lovers of a certain elite music), but my advice is to launch yourself in search of this work, step by step, and all the others in their rich and "intriguing" discography. 

Out of your mind.