Noise [LP]

As their time spent celebrating a love of heavy sounds and crushing guitar tones approached nearly 20 years, Japanese band Boris had released hours and hours of music, getting into everything from drone metal to shoegaze-inspired pop. Noise, the 19th proper full-length in a discography full of collaborations, EPs, and miscellaneous work, does much to tie together the band's always restless muse. Beginning with the one-two punch of huge alt-rock blasts "Melody" and "Vanilla" covers their penchant for melodic post-grunge still overpowering with fuzzy guitar tones and overblown drums. This shifts into the moody melody and spacy guitar tones of "Ghost of Romance" and then the dreamy, reverb-washed open space of "Heavy Rain." The almost ten-minute assault of "Quicksilver" begins with raw, lightning-speed riffage and screamed vocals that bring to mind early D.I.Y. hardcore and screamo acts before merging into more contained melodies, eventually twisting out of the raw chaos into a more compo