Browse by Label: SARGENT HOUSE

Artist:	BORIS
Title:	Attention Please
Label:	SARGENT HOUSE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SH 055CD

"Iconoclast Japanese trio Boris are widely known for their ability to breach styles and stretch sonic boundaries of all that is heavy, psychedelic, droning and downright cathartic. But, Attention Please is more like a complete redefining of their potential in several ways. First and foremost, it is the first album on which all vocals are sung by lead guitarist, Wata. While she has previously sung on a couple of songs for singles and her own solo recordings, the entire 10-song album features her intimate, multifaceted vocal style. Secondly, the songs on Attention Please have a sultry, intoxicating catchiness to them. It's melodic without sounding pop. It's psychedelic without sounding dated. It's heavy without relying on barre chord riffs."

Artist:	BORIS
Title:	Heavy Rocks (2011)
Label:	SARGENT HOUSE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SH 058CD

"Heavy Rocks opens with fitting aplomb as a driving drum beat catapults a thunderous drop-tuned guitar riff headlong into the Sabbath meets Eddie Hazel pummeling of 'Riot Sugar' (featuring guest backup vocals by Ian Astbury). Boris' bristling thrash meets ethereal psychedelia ('GALAXIANS', 'Window Shopping') and lush, languorous nearly 13-minute songs 'Missing Pieces' and 'Aileron' navigate explosive quiet/loud dynamics with inventive use of song structure and emotionally-wrenching melody. Heavy Rocks is at once both a reinvention of Boris' magical ability to combine elements of myriad genres as much as it is a return to form, expanding and developing on the ideas explored on the original 2002 Heavy Rocks album. Boris invited some very, uh, heavy friends to contribute to songs the album, including longtime collaborator and Boris' touring second guitarist Michio Kurihara (Ghost), Ian Astbury (The Cult, BXI), Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer) and Aaron Turner (Isis, Mamiffer, et al.) It's worth noting that all of them tracked their parts in Tokyo, not via file transfer."

Artist:	BORIS
Title:	New Album
Label:	SARGENT HOUSE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SH 070CD

"Boris has long been celebrated for their rare ability to reinterpret a multitude of esoteric musical genres into a sound uniquely their own. New Album finds the intrepid Japanese trio etching their own post-noise, extreme pop niche with their most accessible and melodic effort to date. Where their two previous albums, Attention Please and the all new Heavy Rocks -- both released by Sargent House on the same day, May 24th, 2011 -- offered divergent expansions to their sonic palette, New Album is the culmination of the band's ongoing experimentation that catapults its ferocious sound headlong into pop territory."

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