Boris

1992–present·Tokyo, Japan

Japanese three-piece who have put out something like thirty albums across every possible adjacent genre — drone, sludge, stoner, noise, pop, ambient — without ever sounding like they're slumming. Takeshi, Wata, and Atsuo are basically the noise rock equivalent of a jazz ensemble: a shared vocabulary deep enough to take anywhere. Amplifier Worship, Akuma no Uta, Pink, and Smile are the canonical entry points.

People

Takeshi
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Boris's bass-and-guitar doubleneck guy. Plays a custom hybrid instrument that's basically a bass and a guitar welded together. Shares vocal duties. One third of a band that's released more albums than is strictly reasonable.

Wata
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Boris's guitarist. A very specific tone — clean and singing, then gigantic and buried under effects — that's unmistakably Wata. Essential to basically every Boris record regardless of what genre the album has decided to be.

Atsuo
drumsvocals

Boris's drummer, band manager, designer, and occasional vocalist. The organizational force behind a band that puts out multiple albums a year on multiple labels simultaneously without anybody else seeming to track it.

Discography

1996

Absolutego

Fangs Anal SatanLP
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1998

Amplifier Worship

MangroveLP
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2000

Flood

MIDI CreativeLP
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2002

Heavy Rocks

InoxiaLP
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2003

Akuma no Uta

DiwphalanxLP
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2005

Pink

DiwphalanxLP
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2008

Smile

DiwphalanxLP
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2011

Attention Please

Sargent HouseLP
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2017

Dear

Sargent HouseLP
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Connections