BORIS announce 10th anniversary Pink album deluxe reissue, U.S. tour 'Boris performing Pink' in July
Japanese trio Boris announce the 10th anniversary deluxe reissue of Pink today and premiere one of 9 previously unreleased tracks from the new edition via Pitchfork. See track list below. Hear and share "Are You Ready?" HERE. (Direct Soundcloud.)
Boris will launch a full U.S. headlining tour in July in which they will perform Pink in its entirety. The band's new Sargent House labelmates Earth will play all dates except two in Canada. Please see complete dates below.
Pink, the landmark 2006 album by Boris,
which earned widespread critical praise -- including Pitchfork's Top 10
Albums of 2006 -- will be reissued in a deluxe edition this summer to
commemorate the album's 10th anniversary.
The deluxe 3xLP box set and 2xCD features an entire album of previously unreleased tracks recorded during the Pink album sessions in 2004-2005. The bonus Forbidden Songs
collects 9 tracks of the same hyperactive, accessible and aggressive
caliber of the original album, available here for the first time, mixed
(with additional editing and arrangement) in 2015 and mastered in January 2016. Like the original U.S. vinyl release, the Pink (Deluxe Edition)
LP set has three longer edits of songs that were truncated on the
original CD issue ("Farewell", "Pseudo-Bread" and "My Machine").
Otherwise, both the LP and CD versions have the same audio as the 2006
release. And, Pink (Deluxe Edition) also features the artwork of the original Japanese release, made by the band members themselves.
In 2006, Pink
was Boris' 10th album and a major breakthrough that earned new fans
outside of the underground metal community -- the track "Farewell" was
even featured in Jim Jarmusch's classic film The Limits of Control.
The album landed on countless "best of the year" lists from underground
metal sites to mainstream rock magazines. And the praise was certainly
well deserved for its more accessible sound and explorations into
shoegaze and ambient structures alongside brutal noise, searing
psychedelia and apocalyptic doom.
Pink
succeeds at what most bands cannot do: swiftly changing styles from
song to song, while always sounding distinctly like themselves. The
seamless, explosive set of fan favorites from the classic longtime
lineup of drummer/vocalist Atsuo, guitarist/vocalist Wata and bassist/guitarist/vocalist Takeshi still sounds as mindblowing as it did a decade ago. And, Forbidden Songs
continues with the same unbridled creativity and ferocity. These songs
aren't outliers, they're rather more like the director's cut version of
the original album.
Boris
is now in their 24th year as a band -- 20 years in the classic trio
lineup -- and showing no signs of slowing down. They have always
demolished expectations of what a band can do musically and
aesthetically. And in looking back with Pink (Deluxe Edition), the band's trajectory as experimenters and innovators over subsequent releases becomes even clearer.
Pink (Deluxe Edition) will be available everywhere (excluding Japan) on July 8th on 3xLP box set, 2xCD and download via Sargent House.
BORIS / EARTH / SHITSTORM TOUR 2016:
07/22 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
07/23 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
07/25 Dallas, TX @ Trees
07/26 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
07/28 Ybor City, FL @ The Orpheum
07/29 Orlando, FL @ The Social
07/30 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
07/31 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
08/01 Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records
08/03 Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
08/04 Washington, DC @ 930 Club
08/05 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
08/06 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
08/07 New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
08/09 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
08/10 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz P.D.B. (no Earth)
08/11 Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace (no Earth)
08/12 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
08/13 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
08/14 Chicago, IL @ Metro
08/16 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater
08/17 Minneapolis, MN @ Fineline Music Cafe
08/18 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
08/19 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
08/20 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
08/22 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
08/23 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
08/25 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
08/26 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater
08/27 Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock Hotel - Psycho Las Vegas
On the Web:
www.borisheavyrocks.com (Official site: Japan)
borisheavyrocks.tumblr.com (BORIS news U.S.)
Follow BORIS on Twitter: @Borisheavyrocks
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