Cargo Records

Chocolate Synthesizer

The fourth album from The Boredoms, blending elements of speed-core, punk (there seems to be a tribute of sorts to the electric eels at one point), dub, psychedelia, biker rock, the gross-out too-muchness of the butthole surfers at their lunatic best. Ace.

It is usually down to our surroundings that we able to discover new things. Had I not been working in the city, going through a mad spending spree with my first months wages, I might never have heard of the BOREDOMS. I was buying Taiko, traditional drum music from Japan, by the excellant groups ONDEKOZA and KODO (Powerful percussion and ambient flutes, influencing todays drum and bass acts, such as PHOTEK`s "Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu"). As I handed my CD`s over the counter ready to pay, I was informed that there were plenty more Japanese albums worth a listen, and was then talked into buying two mad compilations of junk, trash and noise rock that went under the title BAD SUN RISING. The two tracks by the BOREDOMS "Thalidomide Car" and "Mangun" were just taking the piss, but only enticed me even further. Just in time for the release of "Chocolate Synthesizer", still my favourite and most played album today. When a friend of mine asked me what I was listening to, I didnt know what to tell him, is it punk? trash? rock? or experimental surrealism? It didn`t really fit into any catagory and that is what made it so good. Music that didn`t really care about being music, or making a point other than that all noise can be music. From walking down the street, eating food, smashing the hell out everything around you or using vibrators as drumsticks.
The BOREDOMS capture all the intensity of their live improvisations and learn from them, improving every discovered noise and building on them layering into them with vocal harmonies and parodies. It is so good to listen to something that doesn`t have a predictable structure to it. Breaking a lot of unspoken musical rules. I dont know if this makes them bad musicians, or mad genius`, and I dont really care as long as they continue to allow time for the BOREDOMS to develop within their hectic list of side projects and collaborations, and keep coming up with new albums. They just keep getting better and better, EYE is building up his experiments within the Super Roots series, and overall they appear to have adapted from madcap punk into trance experimental rock without loosing that essential ingrediant that makes them the Boredoms.
Long live Boredoms.

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