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Pink, the landmark 2006 album by Boris, which earned widespread critical
praise including Pitchforks Top 10 Albums of 2006 will be reissued in a deluxe
edition this summer to commemorate the albums 10th anniversary. The deluxe 3×LP
box set and 2×CD features an entire album of previously unreleased tracks
recorded during the Pink album
sessions in 2004–2005.
The bonus Forbidden Songs collects 9 tracks of the same hyperactive,
accessible and aggressive caliber of the original album, available here for the
first time, mixed (with additional editing and arrangement) in 2015 and
mastered in January 2016. Like the original U.S. vinyl release, the Pink
(Deluxe Edition) LP set has three longer edits of songs
that were truncated on the original CD issue (Farewell, Pseudo-Bread and My
Machine).
Otherwise, both the LP and CD versions have the same audio as the
2006 release. And, Pink (Deluxe Edition) also features the artwork of the
original Japanese release, made by the band members themselves. In 2006, Pink
was Boris 10th album and a major breakthrough that earned new fans outside of
the underground metal community the track Farewell was
even featured in Jim Jarmuschs classic film The Limits of Control.
The album landed on countless best of the year lists from underground metal sites to mainstream rock magazines. And the praise was certainly well deserved for its more accessible sound and explorations into shoegaze and ambient structures alongside brutal noise, searing psychedelia and apocalyptic doom. Pink succeeds at what most bands cannot do: swiftly changing styles from song to song, while always sounding distinctly like themselves. The seamless, explosive set of fan favorites from the classic longtime lineup of drummer/vocalist Atsuo, guitarist/vocalist Wata and bassist/guitarist/vocalist Takeshi still sounds as mindblowing as it did a decade ago. And, Forbidden Songs continues with the same unbridled creativity and ferocity. These songs arent outliers, theyre rather more like the directors cut version of the original album.