New Album

For the album by The Everly Brothers, see The New Album.
New Album
Studio album by Boris
Released March 16, 2011 (2011-03-16)
Genre J-Pop, psychedelic, shoegaze, dream pop, industrial music[1]
Length 45:39
Label Tearbridge, Daymare, Sargent House
Producer Shinobu Narita
Boris chronology
Klatter
(2011)		 New Album
(2011)		 Heavy Rocks
(2011)

New Album is the fifteenth studio album by the Japanese experimental band Boris. The album was released in Japan on March 16, 2011, on CD through Tearbridge (an imprint of major label Avex) and on double LP through Daymare, and will be released worldwide with a different mix and tracklist through Sargent House on November 25, 2011.[2] The CD and LP feature different versions of several tracks.[3]

The label released the song "Party Boy" prior to the album, which also appears in an altered form on Attention Please. Other tracks shared with that album are "Hope" and "Spoon".[4] The album also shares the tracks "Jackson Head" and "Tu, La La" with Heavy Rocks. "Black Original" has appeared on Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol. 2 with different instrumentation.

Spin put up a full stream of the Sargent House CD version on November 29, 2011.[5]

Contents

Track listing

Daymare 12" LP

No. Title Length
1. "フレア (Vinyl Version)" ("Flare"; features introduction quoting the end of "Looprider") 5:02
2. "希望 -Hope-"   3:40
3. "Party Boy (Vinyl Version)"   3:43
4. "Black Original (Vinyl Version)"   4:33
5. "Pardon?"   5:54
6. "Spoon"   4:23
7. "ジャクソンヘッド" ("Jackson Head") 3:09
8. "黒っぽいギター (Vinyl Version)" ("Dark Guitar"; English title "Les Paul Custom '86") 4:06
9. "Tu, la la"   4:11
10. "Looprider (Vinyl Version)"   6:59

Tearbridge CD

No. Title Length
1. "Party Boy"   3:49
2. "希望 -Hope-"   3:43
3. "フレア" ("Flare") 4:21
4. "Black Original"   4:27
5. "Pardon?"   5:59
6. "Spoon"   4:28
7. "ジャクソンヘッド" ("Jackson Head") 3:12
8. "黒っぽいギター" ("Dark Guitar"; English title "Les Paul Custom '86") 4:09
9. "Tu, la la"   4:15
10. "Looprider"   7:13

Sargent House CD

No. Title Length
1. "Flare" (uses introduction from Daymare LP version) 5:04
2. "Hope"   3:43
3. "Party Boy"   3:48
4. "Luna" (alternate mix of song released on a split with Torche, Chapter Ahead Being Fake and Williams Street Records's compilation Metal Swim) 8:29
5. "Spoon"   4:29
6. "Pardon?"   6:00
7. "Jackson Head"   3:11
8. "Les Paul Custom '86"   4:10
9. "Tu, La La"   4:15
10. "Looprider"   7:01

Personnel

Pressing History

Year Label Format Country Out of Print? Notes
2011 Tearbridge CD Japan No
2011 Daymare 2xLP Japan No Ltd. 700
2011 Sargent House CD/LP US No

References

  1. ^ "Boris-New Album". No Gods, No Masters. http://ryonikis.blogspot.com/2011/03/boris-party-boy-2011.html. Retrieved 2011-03-16. 
  2. ^ Pitchfork announcing Sargent House release of New Album
  3. ^ Aural Exploits release page
  4. ^ Daymare releases "Party Boy" track by Boris
  5. ^ Spin album stream of Sargent House release

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