Smile

by Boris

Smile cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 March 2008
  • Label: Diwphalanx
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 56:53
  • Community rating: 3.53/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Boris embraces accessible, high-octane rock on 'Smile', blending their heavy drone roots with shoegaze and punk. Features collaborations with Michio Kurihara on guitar, adding blazing psychedelic solos. It is a loud, euphoric celebration of guitar noise.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, droning, sludgy, expansive, maximalist

Tracklist

  1. Flower Sun Rain (07:26)
  2. Buzz-In (02:57)
  3. Laser Beam (04:29)
  4. Statement (03:24)
  5. My Neighbor Satan (05:17)
  6. Ka Re Ha Te Ta Sa Ki -No Ones Grieve- (08:58)
  7. You Were Holding An Umbrella (08:54)
  8. Untitled (15:28)

Credits

  • Takeshi Ohtani - Member
  • Wata - Member
  • Atsuo Mizuno - Member
  • Nagata - Member
  • Takeshi - Member
  • Atsuo - Member
  • Wata - Member
  • You Ishihara - effects [analog effects manipulation & treatment], percussion
  • Souichirou Nakamura - mastered by
  • Fangsanalsatan - recorded by

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