"Groundbreaking metal album gets a mesmerically
expansive reissue. A-" -- Consequence of Sound
"Pink was prescient in how metal would rethink what it
meant to be heavy, with metallic shoegaze butting up against feedback-sick
drone and glittery punk." -- NPR
Japanese trio Boris today announce that they will bring
their just completed North American tour Boris Performing Pink to Europe and
the UK
this Fall. The band is touring in support of the 10th anniversary Pink (Deluxe
Edition) reissue, released in July on Sargent House. Please see current dates
below.
NPR previously premiered "SOFUN" HERE. Pitchfork
announced the release with "Are You Ready?" HERE. The complete Pink
(Deluxe Edition) is available to hear and share via Bandcamp.
Pink, the landmark 2006 album by Boris, which earned
widespread critical praise -- including Pitchfork's Top 10 Albums of 2006 --
was reissued in an expanded edition for 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.
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.
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) was released everywhere (excluding Japan) on July
8th on 3xLP box set, 2xCD and download via Sargent House. iTunes orders HERE,
3xLP box set and 2xCD editions are available via Hello Merch.
BORIS TOUR 2016:
11/18 Helsinki,
FI @ Tavastia
11/20 Stockholm, SE @ Debaser
Strand
11/21 Oslo,
NO @ Bla
11/22 Gothenburg, SE @ Truckstop Alaska
11/23 Copenhagen,
DK @ VEGA
11/24 Hamburg,
DE @ Hafenklang
11/25 Berlin,
DE @ White Trask
11/27 Boulogne
Billancourt, FR @ Festival BB Mix
11/28 Reims, FR @ La
Cartonnerie
11/30 Nuremberg,
DE @ Zentralcafe at K4
12/01 Milan,
IT @ Lo Fi Club
12/02 Rome,
IT @ Init
12/03 Livorno, IT @ The
Cage
12/04 Bologna,
IT @ Locomotiv Club
12/06 Reitschule, CH @ Dachstock
12/07 Geneva,
CH @Antigel Festival
12/09 Moscow,
RU @ Theater
12/10 St.
Petersburg, RU @ ClubZal
12/11 Tilburg,
NL @ Incubate Festival
12/12 Brussels,
BE @ Rotonde Botanique
12/13 London,
UK @ Electric
Ballroom
12/14 Bristol,
UK @ The Fleece
12/15 Manchester,
UK @ Sound
Control
12/16 Newcastle,
UK @ University
12/18 Glasgow,
UK @ Stereo
12/19 Leeds,
UK @ Brudenell
Social Club
12/20 Brighton,
UK @ The Haunt
12/21 Athens,
GR @ Fuzz Club
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