Okay. Something weird has happened to me in the last month. I have become an instant HUGE fan of two bands whose CDs I purchased based on recommendations of people I trust or magazines I trust or just on trust itself: the Knife's Silent Shout and Boris's Pink.
I am listening to Boris right now and my god, it is so mindblowingly awesome I can't believe it. It starts off with a seven minute homage to shoegaze and ends with "when we’re gone," a ten-minute song that blends absolute doom with absolute Beach Boys and lets the noise go surfing on melody without remorse. It rules! The packaging rules too, not just because I adore pink and find that it hilarious that an underground metal band would name their album pink and bathe everything on the album in pink, but because it is gorgeous good design in the classic art-school fetish kind of way. Plastic folded celophane cover, normal glossy stapled insert and this awesome perferated cardstock four-fold of little Boris "pink" paint chips, so you can paint your walls pink with Boris, which I am clearly doing right now as I listen in my room. Should I tear one off each time to make sure my walls are just the right shade of Boris after I listen?
Yay for music! okay, I'm going back to editing my thesis now.
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