Previous years for my birthday, Japan's power-Shoegaze-Pop-Metal-Psych wondertrio Boris generously gave me the triple album assault of 2011. This year I'm being given the double-night at the Crocodile wherein they play their magisterial opus "Flood" alongside a second night of All Time Classics on this North American tour of multiple-night showcases. Two nights of more of the seriously blasting of-the-sun brilliance and cynicism-crushing intensity that I've seen them deliver every time they're in town as they manifest their ever-mutating mix of Doom Metal, Heavy Psych, warped J-Pop, dysfunctional Bro-Rock and more recently, their own thrilling new take on Shoegaze. Yeah, the latter we first glimpsed on their "Japanese Heavy Rock Hits" 7" series and more recently refined on the near-perfect "Attention Please" and the more guttural Psych assault of "Heavy Rocks", with that year's deluge topped with their upbeat pop-assault for the Nintendooo generation, "New Album". With 2013 we've seen a return to earlier forms with the Metal riffs of their newest "Präparat", blasting Noisecore of "Vein" and the heady Doom and Psych soundscapes of the reissued, remastered, expanded 4xCD box set "The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked: Chronicle". Making for another manically productive year for Boris, who also contributed a track to the comically titled, (this is a Japanese release, so it's ok, yes?) "Yellow Loveless" My Bloody Valentine tribute compilation. For those initiated in their hyperfluorescent joys expect to have your life changed with these two-day showcases of the spectrum of their mellifluous manifestations. For those not initiated... well... you too can expect to have your life changed with these two-day showcases of the spectrum of their mellifluous manifestations!
