Official press release:
Japanese trio Boris announce the 10th anniversary deluxe reissue of Pink today and premiere one of 9 previously unreleased tracks from the new edition via Pitchfork. See track list below. Hear and share “Are You Ready?” below via Pitchfork:
Boris will launch a full U.S. headlining tour in July in which they will perform Pink in its entirety. The band’s new Sargent House labelmates Earth will play all dates except two in Canada. Please see complete dates below.
Pink, the landmark 2006 album by Boris, which earned widespread critical praise — including Pitchfork’s Top 10 Albums of 2006 — will be reissued in a deluxe edition this summer to commemorate the album’s 10th anniversary.
The deluxe 3xLP box set and 2xCD features an entire album of previously unreleased tracks recorded during the Pink album sessions in 2004-2005. The bonus Forbidden Songs collects 9 tracks of the same hyperactive, accessible and aggressive caliber of the original album, available here for the first time, mixed (with additional editing and arrangement) in 2015 and mastered in January 2016. Like the original U.S. vinyl release, the Pink (Deluxe Edition) LP set has three longer edits of songs that were truncated on the original CD issue (“Farewell”, “Pseudo-Bread” and “My Machine”). Otherwise, both the LP and CD versions have the same audio as the 2006 release. And, Pink (Deluxe Edition) also features the artwork of the original Japanese release, made by the band members themselves.
In 2006, Pink was Boris’ 10th album and a major breakthrough that earned new fans outside of the underground metal community — the track “Farewell” was even featured in Jim Jarmusch’s classic film The Limits of Control. The album landed on countless “best of the year” lists from underground metal sites to mainstream rock magazines. And the praise was certainly well deserved for its more accessible sound and explorations into shoegaze and ambient structures alongside brutal noise, searing psychedelia and apocalyptic doom.
Pink succeeds at what most bands cannot do: swiftly changing styles from song to song, while always sounding distinctly like themselves. The seamless, explosive set of fan favorites from the classic longtime lineup of drummer/vocalist Atsuo, guitarist/vocalist Wata and bassist/guitarist/vocalist Takeshi still sounds as mindblowing as it did a decade ago. And, Forbidden Songs continues with the same unbridled creativity and ferocity. These songs aren’t outliers, they’re rather more like the director’s cut version of the original album.
Boris is now in their 24th year as a band — 20 years in the classic trio lineup — and showing no signs of slowing down. They have always demolished expectations of what a band can do musically and aesthetically. And in looking back with Pink (Deluxe Edition), the band’s trajectory as experimenters and innovators over subsequent releases becomes even clearer.
Pink (Deluxe Edition) will be available everywhere (excluding Japan) on July 8th on 3xLP box set, 2xCD and download via Sargent House.
Pink (Deluxe Edition) track listing:
1. “Pink”
2. “Woman on the Screen”
3. “Nothing Special”
4. “Blackout”
5. “Electric”
6. “Six, Three Times”
7. “Afterburner”
8. “Pseudo Bread” (long version)
9. “My Machine” (long version)
10. “Farewell” (long version)
11. “Just Abandoned Myself”
Forbidden Songs track listing:
1. “Your Name Part 2”
2. “Heavy Rock Industry”
3. “Sofun”
4. “Non/Sha/Lant”
5. “Room Noise”
6. “Talisman”
7. “N.F.Sorrow”
8. “Are You Ready?”
9. “Tiptoe”
Tour dates with Earth:
7/22 – San Diego, CA | The Casbah
7/23 – Phoenix, AZ | Crescent Ballroom
7/25 – Dallas, TX | Trees
7/26 – Austin, TX | The Mohawk
7/28 – Ybor City, FL | The Orpheum
7/29 – Orlando, FL | The Social
7/30 – Atlanta, GA | The Masquerade
7/31 – Asheville, NC | The Orange Peel
8/01 – Nashville, TN | Third Man Records
8/03 – Carrboro, NC | Cat’s Cradle
8/04 – Washington, DC | 930 Club
8/05 – Brooklyn, NY | Warsaw
8/06 – Philadelphia, PA | Union Transfer
8/07 – New Haven, CT | College Street Music Hall
8/09 – Boston, MA | Paradise Rock Club
8/10 – Montreal, QC | Bar Le Ritz P.D.B. *
8/11 – Toronto, ON | Lee’s Palace *
8/12 – Cleveland, OH | Grog Shop
8/13 – Grand Rapids, MI | Pyramid Scheme
8/14 – Chicago, IL | Metro
8/16 – Madison, WI | Majestic Theater
8/17 – Minneapolis, MN | Fineline Music Cafe
8/18 – Lawrence, KS | Granada Theatre
8/19 – Denver, CO | Bluebird Theater
8/20 – Salt Lake City, UT | Urban Lounge
8/22 – Seattle, WA | Neumo’s
8/23 – Portland, OR | Wonder Ballroom
8/25 – San Francisco, CA | The Fillmore
8/26 – Los Angeles, CA | The Regent Theater
8/27 – Las Vegas, NV | Hard Rock Hotel – Psycho Las Vegas
* = no Earth