Flood

Artist: Boris
Label: Sbme Import
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD

UPC: 667341442922
EAN: 0667341442922
ASIN: B00005NB4K

Release Date: 2005-12-22

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Customer Reviews:

melancholy is good.......2005-09-05

this is boris' most melancholy release, definitely reccomended for the self pitying. a variety of pharmeceuticals may enhance the experience, but is definitely not needed.

Into the Abyss.......2005-06-18

FLOOD is my favorite Boris record.
FLOOD draws you in very slowly...like a spider weaving it's web.
FLOOD begins very softly, repetitively, quiet, and beautiful.
FLOOD contains very powerful and heavy music.
FLOOD is worth getting.
FLOOD is not the most representative album for Boris....but
FLOOD is my favorite Boris record.

The Best Boris Album .......2005-05-17

This is my fave Boris recording...
It's a breathtaking masterpiece, this is up there w/ any of the finest works from other greats like Mogwai & Sunn0)))
Please do yourself a favor & check this soundscape masterpiece out it really is that good

The ambient counterpart to Absolutego.......2003-01-13

Boris' second release, Flood, is certainly one of the most beautiful and mesmerizing concepts ever put to CD. In the past, Boris had always prided themselves on sub-Drop D tunings and painfully slow orgies of feedback, but on Flood, the former noise warmongers chose to take exactly the opposite route. While Absolutego had been infused with one of the most abrasive contained musical experiences imaginable by taking the listener from loud, to louder, to loudest, Flood starts its journey at the very beginning of the dynamics spectrum. Culminating from a gentle whisper to a droning grind and back down again to a subtle meditative ambience, Flood uses Boris' ultra-extended atmospheric build to generate a sense of calm and rebirth instead of elongated bouts of chaotic destruction. Even Flood's more aggressive climaxes are elongated and decidedly not enhanced by electronics giving the entire album much more organic, less assaulting overtones. In essence, Flood could be accurately described as the exact opposite of Absolutego, like a yin and yang, but it is still firmly based on and cultivated from identical principles. Boris's career had already been founded on slow build single song albums; Flood simply took this basic plot in a new direction that further realized the possibilities of such an immense concept. Furthermore, although Boris takes its name from a Melvins' song of the same title, their sound is actually much more akin to the art sludge trios' monolithic Lysol than the ultra-heavy Bullhead. The similarities between the two album's theatrical dives into pummeling sludge followed by serene, mellow breathers is uncanny and only strengthens the ties between these two band's styles, which is by no means a bad thing. Following Flood, Boris began structuring their sound into a much more song oriented format, and even though subsequent releases were still classic and otherworldly in a way that only Boris can achieve, Flood and the preceding Absolutego still stand as the two contrasting opuses of the band's diverse career.

high brow stoner rock????.......2002-10-27

quick! snap this up before it goes out of print! Boris are a Japanese trio that specialise in taking the Melvins / Sleep / Sabbath sound to its logical extreme. Their only western release 'absolutego' is a wailing beast of a cd - over an hour of distorted doomy drones over a mogadon bass riff culminating in a bizarrely beautiful finale. Though recorded in much the same spirit, 'flood' is a much more approachable disc. Opening with a minimalist picked guitar figure that recalls composer Steve Reich's phasing experiments - it develops intriguingly over a series of clearly discernible movements - through a Eddie Hazelish maggot brain type lament solo to epic rock a la bon jovi (but good!!! trust me) to a mighty decaying doom chord motif... It's a high-risk enterprise throughout - right on the eedge of prog-rock nonsense but it never goes over - its clearly an exercise as much in discipline and self-control as tongue-in-cheek mega self-indulgence...
highly recommended!!!

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