Originally written by TheBoyDeadly · 30 November 2007
Is it ethical to begin a Friday with a Boris news story? The loud bastards will release a new full-length record next April through the aptly named Southern Lord record label.
Not so aptly named perhaps is the record itself; Michio Kurihara and Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))) guesting again on Smile, the follow-up to last year’s Pink album (review).
Beating Smile out of the traps will be a CD/7” single and a new video. More details when they emerge from the fugue.
For now, console yourself with the faintly ridiculous but vividly fierce concept of a Boris / Merzbow live split – out now, again through Southern Lord, the 13-track, double-disc effort runs thus:
Disc one ‘Feedbacker’ ‘Black Out’ ‘Evil Stack’ ‘Rainbow’
Disc two ‘Pink’ ‘Woman on the Screen’ ‘Nothing Special’ ‘Ibitsu’ ‘a bao a qu’ ‘The Evilone Which Sobs’ ‘Flower Sun Rain’ ‘Just Abandoned My-self’ ‘Farewell’