Pink offers a lot of contrasting elements, none of which should be surprising for fans of Boris, but here they expand many of these elements to work together and produce an album with some surprisingly catchy moments adjacent to drone metal tracks. The whole works quite well, providing stretches of upbeat, well structured rock with more downtrodden and atmospheric songs. Boris has been putting together good amalgams of metal, drone and noise for sometime now; it's good to see their exposure is finally growing to match the strength of their catalogue.

RSD. Boris- has long been celebrated for their rare ability to reinterpret a multitude of esoteric musical genres into a sound uniquely their own.- New Album- finds the intrepid Japanese trio etching their own post-noise, extreme pop niche with their most accessible and melodic effort to date. Where their two previous albums,Attention Please- and the all new- Heavy Rocks- -- both released by Sargent House on the same day, May 24th, 2011 -- offered divergent expansions to their sonic palette,- New Album- is the culmination of the band's ongoing experimentation that catapults its ferocious sound headlong into pop territory.

Smile is an album by Japanese experimental doom band Boris and features guest musicians Michio Kurihara of Ghost and Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))), both of whom have collaborated with Boris in the past. This release is the second Boris album to feature vocals on every track (the first, excluding any one-track albums, was Amplifier Worship). It delves more into experimental tendencies with a more manipulated sound and even experiments with samples.

Boris has earned its rabid cult following for their ability to expertly harness music as power. Be it psychedelic metal, colossal drone, blistering punk or distortion-ravaged shoegaze, a Boris song is an exploration of sound as physical mass. The Japanese trio's classic 2002 album, Heavy Rocks, is a landmark of their mastery. So, it's fitting that the group's new album sharing the same title and very similar artwork to that disc, Heavy Rocks (2011) seeks to redefine 'heavy' music in a culmination of the band's tireless efforts over the past two decades. This year's Heavy Rocks is beyond heavy. It firmly establishes Boris as a pillar of innovation and integrity in guitar based music. Heavy Rocks (2011) features guest appearances by Ian Astbury (The Cult, BXI), Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer), Aaron Turner (Isis, Mammifer), and longtime Boris collaborator Michio Kurihara.