Chocolate Synthesizer

I appreciate this submission. You’re wild for submitting it - people here are going to hate it - but I appreciate it. I’m more of a fan of the drone-y, metaphysical psych of Super Æ or Vision Creation Newsun-era Boredoms, but I’m also a firm believer that people should listen to music that is outside of their comfort zone from time to time and pretty much any record by Boredoms is going to be about as far out as you can get.

My tolerance for noise rock is generally not robust, so I went in dubious. I feel like I've heard of this band before but can't think of where or when. No love for a real release on YouTube music, I ended up listening to a community playlist of presumably pirated vids that they somehow get away with offering as alternatives in such situations, which always feels unfortunate, but Im not going to scour the world looking for a legit source. Very art forward, I found it more tolerable than much of its ilk I've encountered, by the end though I was left with a familiar sense that - in a world as stuffed with cacophonous noise - both literal and metaphorical - as the one I inhabit, I don't really need my music adding more of the same.

Normally you can always count me in for Noise and garage rock from Japan. But this is not normally: this is an album full of abnormal music with an abundance of humor that gets lost in (cultural?) translation. I don't get it and after over one hour of madness, I think I don't want to get it.

Not on spotify either How do you get born into a situation where you physically, culturally and psychologically is lead to believe that boredoms is a good band? 2

I wanted to enjoy this LP so badly, but have to concede that an hour of loose, textural noise rock is not my thing. There are bright moments that sound like Melt-Banana meets Lightning Bolt (even a few moments where i was reminded of Boris), but these are easily lost underneath a sea of aggressive, low-tempo textures that blur together over the LP's runtime.

Second day in a row that the album isn't on Spotify. Not making the effort this time. 2/5.

Another album unavailable on Spotify

Never would have guessed these guys were Japanese. Then again I wouldn’t have guessed what they made was music either. Guess there really is something for everyone because this is the closest thing to hot garbage I’ve heard yet. 0.2/10