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Flood

One 70-minute piece in four movements.
Boris, 2000

The four movements run 14:42, 13:34, 20:38 and 21:35. Part I has mechanical white noise and a looping guitar riff played at two slightly different speeds that drift apart and realign; Part II is slow and ambient with lo-fi drums and an extended guitar solo on the riff; Part III is the climax with repeating riffs, vocals and another solo; Part IV is a minimalist ambient ending in white noise. Atsuo plays drums, percussion, gong and vocals, Takeshi vocals, bass and guitar and wrote the words, and Wata guitar and effects. Tetsuya "Cherry" Tochigi engineered. The album moved away from the abrasive Absolutego and Amplifier Worship toward minimalism and post-rock; Third Man says it draws on Steve Reich. Atsuo said in 2013 that it holds the opposite elements, quiet ambient and loud heavy, all together.

Track listing

  1. Flood (Part I)14:42
  2. Flood (Part II)13:34
  3. Flood (Part III)20:38
  4. Flood (Part IV)21:35

More from Boris

Amplifier Worship (1998), Heavy Rocks (2002), Boris At Last -Feedbacker- (2003), Akuma No Uta (2003), The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked (2004), Pink (2005), Dronevil (2005), Sound Track From Film "Mabuta No Ura" (2005), The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 (2006), Vein (Drone Version) (2006), The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 (2006), Smile (2008), Attention Please (2011), New Album (2011), Präparat (2013), Boris Performing "Flood" (2013), Noise (2014), 目をそらした瞬間 Extra -The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Extra- (2014), Dear (2017), Secrets (2018), LΦVE & EVΦL (2019), 1985 (2019), No (2020), New Album 2009 (2021), Fade (2022), W (2022), Kanau (2022), -Performing "Fade" At High 20230402- (2024), And 2 Years Later (2024)

Sources

  1. Flood (Boris album), Wikipedia
  2. Boris unveil never-before-seen live performance footage of Flood, Third Man Records