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After no original records since Vision Creation Newsun in 1999—their most recent, Vision Recreation Newsound in 2001 was a remix album—the immortal-as-they-are-esoteric Boredoms have recently released a new album, Seadrum/House of Sun. Almost 20 years after they began patching together their unique mishmash of experimental noise, the Boredoms are still going strong, releasing more than 15 albums, leaving countless side projects in their wake and recently touring as “the V8rdoms,” consistently putting on immensely long and sprawling psychedelic trance-noise-rock performances. This V8rdoms...

Author: By Jim Fingal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review of the Week | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...describe a 23 minute experimental-acoustic track as “sparse” and “restrained,” but both of these adjectives are apt to describe this, given the context of the recent V8rdom material and especially eYe’s Visian Recreation Newsound remixes. The drums continue to build in the track, until 4:33, when a piano(!) enters into the fray, weaving improvisational lines in with Yoshimi’s continued vocal flourishes, still wordless, merely a beautiful crooning melody—this band has clearly come a long way since the guttural...

Author: By Jim Fingal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review of the Week | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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