Pink (Boris album)

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Pink
Studio album by Boris
Released	2005 (Japan) 2006 (world)
Genre	doom metal
Length	47:23 (Diwphalanx CD version) 55:23 (Diwphalanx LP version/Southern Lord CD version) 72:16 (Southern Lord LP Version)
Label	Diwphalanx (Japan) Southern Lord (world)
Professional reviews
Cokemachineglow (79%/82%) link Drowned in Sound (8/10) link Pitchfork (8.7/10) link Spin.com (favourable) link Stylus (C) link
Boris chronology
Soundtrack from film "Mabuta No Ura" (2005)	Pink (2005)	The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 (2006)
Original cover
Diwphalanx Records, 2005

Pink is an album by Japanese sludge/doom band Boris, released in 2005 on the Diwphalanx label in their homeland and subsequently on Southern Lord Records the following year worldwide (see 2005 in music, 2006 in music).

The album received generally very favourable reviews and was acclaimed for its more accessible and melodic direction than the band's prior work.

The cover art for the Southern Lord release features pictures by the poet and artist William Blake depicting Satan from his illustrations to John Milton's Paradise Lost. Interestingly, the album also comes with three paintings of bizarre devillish imagery on sheets of what resembles perforated 'blotter paper', usually synonymous with L.S.D.. Also, the misspelling of 'abandoned' to 'abondoned' on the album sleeve and online MP3 tagging seems to be accepted as intended, though the spelling is corrected on the Southern Lord vinyl issue.

[edit] Diwphalanx track listing

1. "Farewell" – 7:33
2. "Pink" – 4:20
3. "Woman on the Screen" – 2:38
4. "Nothing Special" – 2:18
5. "Blackout" – 4:49
6. "Electric" – 1:45
7. "Pseudo-Bread" – 4:30
8. "Afterburner" – 4:22
9. "Six, Three Times" – 2:53
10. "My Machine" – 2:01
11. "Just Abondoned My-Self" – 10:14 (extended to 18:14 on Southern Lord reissue)

[edit] Southern Lord LP track listing

Side One

1. "Pink" - 4:20
2. "Woman on the Screen" - 2:38
3. "Nothing Special" - 2:12
4. "Blackout" - 4:51

Side Two

1. "Electric" - 1:44
2. "Six Three Times" - 2:49
3. "Afterburner" - 4:22
4. "Pseudo-Bread" - 10:10

Side Three

1. "My Machine" - 11:19
2. "Farewell" - 9:32

Side Four

1. "Just Abandoned My-Self" - 18:13