Boris - Pink

(21 Sep 2010)

This album is wrong. So very wrong. Most of the songs will sound pretty much on the same vein for the first few listens, and everything from the unsteady production, to the presentation to the album title are out there to irritate you. In fact, some of the songs have the instruments rendered barely recognizable by the noise. The songs themselves aren't even all that special: they're mostly just fun and energetic little things that most bands wouldn't find much of a challenge to create and perform.

This album should have been appalling, and, in fact, it is! Still, I'm giving it a very well-deserved 5 stars. Why is that? Well, this is not an album you'll love despite its many shortcomings: it's because of them. The band knows that you'll like their really terrible music, and that the more hateful they make the album, the more you'll like it. The album doesn't come to you, you have to come to it. Pink has massive attitude, and that's what makes it a classic. It's sloppy, for the most part unremarkable, and it couldn't care less.

As for the music itself. It's as intense and energetic as a studio album gets, and it makes you feel good. This is not the kind of album you'll want listen random songs from while your iPod is on shuffle. You'll want to buy the CD and listen to the whole thing through.

Boris's Pink is like a delicious cake made out of pickles, ketchup, pepper and a turd shaped like a cherry.

Standout tracks:

Farewell
Woman On The Screen
Blackout
Pseudo-Bread
Six, Three Times