Boris - New Album - Sargent House - SH-070

The usually punishing Japanese experimental doom metal trio's New Album is an unexpected set of sugary melodic dream pop, wrapped in Athena faerie artwork you might see on a twelve year old girl's pencil case.
Party Boy's electronic beats and listless female vocal approach dance floor anthem territory; Luna plunges 1990s Thames Valley shoe-gazing guitars into an Atari landscape; and the surging Spoon is licked by dubstep drum patterns.

It's an admirable effort, but will fans, hoping for another forty-five minute feedback fest, give it a thumbs down? “Hope you like our new direction! This is Takeshi. He wrote this.”

(12/2/12)