Noise

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AlbumJun 17 / 20148 songs, 57m 55s96%
Post-Metal
Popular
7.8 / 10

Boris excel at playing around with magnitudes, and on their new LP Noise, all of the panoramas the band has crafted over the past two decades – stoner rock, shoegaze, ambient, pop – have coalesced into one massive, smoldering landscape.

D+

The legendary prolificacy of Boris reached a fever pitch around 2011 and 2012, when no fewer than 10 works bearing the band’s name were released. The Japanese trio hasn’t been exactly quiet since then, but enough so that Noise—its 19th full-length—comes with a bit more anticipation. After telescoping its sound and…

8 / 10

Japanese power trio return with their best album for a decade, a by-turns tranquilising and pulse-increasing masterpiece that blurs every genre of rock 'n' roll and collapses the notion that metal bands can't "play".

A singularly intense and essential album.

As their time spent celebrating a love of heavy sounds and crushing guitar tones approached nearly 20 years, Japanese band Boris had released hours and hours of music, getting into everything from drone metal to shoegaze-inspired pop.

7 / 10

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