| I've always loved that Boredoms have eschewed typical signifiers of ecstatic music and stuck to full kit drums for their performances instead of an array of percussives. As a clear signal that this is to be taken as something other than hippy dippyness it's rather effective if you're paying attention. Instead their sound references a great deal of styles - punk, jazz, space rock, minimalist classical, rave, process music, improvisation, kodo, latin, drum and bass, psychedelia, kratrock, prog - without being any of them, somehow reaching something non-idiomatic that is wholly their own. This is what links it in spirit to their earlier, more chaotic sound, but having refined themselves so far through discipline you have to wonder where they're going from here. Is this their peak, the ultimate realisaion of themselves? In some ways a progression from this sound maybe isn't the point, maybe touring with some kind of snot-nosed (Hanatarashi?) punk/spiritualist/marvel of technique danceathon is absolutely an end in itself beyond which there is no point in becoming anything else. Thoughts? |
