 "so you want a boredoms record, do you?" | 2007-05-18 |
| - Reviewed By geoffrey_balme |
This is a great place to start. Not as screamingly bombastic and noisy as some (pop tatari, or chocolate synth), and not as elongate and hypnotic as some (sea drum...), and with enough complexity and variation to keep your attention (some of the roots cds are a bit boring boredoms).
There's some great rumbling driving rhythmic stuff, as you'd expect, there's bird noises over waves of shimmering sorta trippy hypnotic dreamy stuff, there's pure ecstasy rave type tracks as well.
All in all a nice beginner's break in to the art of the boredoms.
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| "A Jam Band from the Depths of Hell" | 2006-10-21 |
| - Reviewed By durango95 |
Of course, the Boredoms aren't a jam band. They are noise punk band that evolved into a full fledge cult of THE ROCK, dedicated to achieving harmonic convergence through heavily flanged guitars. Mainly because the alternative, prayer, is boring.
Vision Creation Newsun is what you listen to before any thorny task. It vibrates your flaccid mind into full gleaming steel. It's joyous, but scary Apollonian joy, the kind where you enter a trance and rip a goat appart with your bare hands, then come down to mundane domains of conscience only to find yourself standing in line at Safeway with a tub of Redvines at 2:00 am, covered in goat . So, if your uncomfortable with Altered States-like evolutionary transformation, stick with your Mudvayne. |
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| "Free,Expansive,Beautiful and Brilliant!" | 2005-03-01 |
| - Reviewed By darkwatertransit |
What came before it is not important when judging this release.What it might be accused of borrowing from is greatly expanded on.What might of inspired it is certainly celebrated.
This album is a religious experience. Either you practice at this temple or you don't. Make no mistakes...this music is divine to many.
P.S.If you are trying these guys out for the first time(and are not the "avant-tarde" type)expect to hear a new take on what makes "a song". |
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 "unique vision" | 2005-01-10 |
| - Reviewed By gogogogo |
| this is a good Boredoms cd...really good. i love it...but i can't help but feel like it's "Super AE Lite." maybe i'm being unfair because i absolutely adore Super AE and i can't help but compare every Boredoms work to that stunning masterpiece. but Vision Creation Newsun is a fabulous bit of music on it's own. especially if listened to as one continuous piece. |
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| "Alien Tribal Rock Bliss" | 2004-08-05 |
| - Reviewed By surrealeye |
Boredoms' Super AE record revealed their new path,at least 2 songs in,you knew they were learning to focus their manic energy.
I look at Super AE as the launch,the takeoff from primitive Earth,whereas with VisionCreationNewsun we are streaking through the atmoshphere up into the heavens and occasionally touching down on alien planets,for a jam.
This album is full of sublime psychedelic colors,primal Day-Glo tribal rock,the whole thing moves along from "song"to"song",some melodies and phrases repeated later in the album,at different speeds and textures.While I have favorites,this is a fantastic album to be absorbed all at once.
Plenty of people have songs,albums,artwork,bible verse,etc.that gives them great pleasure and fills them with hope.Some people think this album boring,that's ok.They've got theirs,and some of us have this.Some may wonder why various reviews of this ablum so often veer into pro-psychedelic discourse and near religious admiration.What can I say,I believe in the purity of this album,the joy it is meant to produce.
I don't believe Boredoms' constructed this thing with dollar signs in their eyes.It is a reflection of their personal/spiritual progression,as evidenced by the similar psyche/ambient/we-don't have to try so hard/shock anymore-flavor of most of Boredoms'members other recent projects.
Once again,Boredoms manage to confound,amaze,disappoint and shock people with each release.The only question is can you ride THIS ship? |
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| "the angel of the abyss reveals her beautiful face" | 2003-05-27 |
| - Reviewed By happydogpotatohead |
| In essence this is a sixty-seven minute and 43 second-long pagan religious ceremony, held on an alien planet, performed by metahumans who may or may not have been descended from earthlings. At least that's what it sounds like. You could get picky and specific, and say, yes, they've been listening to Amon Duul II, Can, and early Ash Ra Tempel, but there's a fearlessness to this that makes the Boredoms more spiritual contemporaries of these bands than mere imitators. The Boredoms are no longer interested in breaking things or rattling walls; they've already done that. The Boredoms want Heaven and they want it Now, and if they cannot enter it they will create it by sheer will. It's hard to describe this kind of music. "Vision Creation Newsun" is an Experience in a high sense. It is Magick. There is focus and intent, and that intent is pure transcendence. The best way to experience "Vision Creation Newsun" is to sit down in front of your stereo and commit yourself to it completely, just throw yourself into the dazzling, dizzying alternate universe of sound that they present. You will soon understand why there are no titles. The music does not need titles. It just *is*. That is all you need to know. |
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| "it's a goner" | 2002-04-15 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
| If you've never heard this album or Super Ae, there's a whole universe of music you are still unaware of. Vision Creation Newsun takes the direction set by Super Ae and modifies it, making music that reminds me of Haitian tribal dances where voodoo loas are sucked into a trance and possessed by their gods. Kind of like that, but electrical. For those of you who feel you have heard just about everything, this will take that notion and sacrifice it on an altar of sonic assault. |
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| "Intergalactic, Multi-deimensional, Spasmic Catharsis" | 2001-11-19 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
| Listening to this album, I have experienced life come into being soley through a will to vibrate. This is one of the most satisfying music purchases I have ever made in my entire life... The music itself is indescribably, permanantly, life-altering in every aspect. A momentus universal connection has been made by humanity and exemplified here in crystalline form, courtesy of EyE, Boredoms and Co. This is one of those serendipitous albums that you'd have to be profoundly fortunate to have stumbled across. The music is like intersteallar intellegent code whose purpose is to liberate star children from the mundane boredom of mainstream Earth, into a gorgeous and intricate spiritual existance of Reniassance consciousness in some universal symphony of synchronistic evolution. This music is so good, that you can't help but cathartically thank the Creator of this Universe for finally allowing RAPTURE of such unparalleled magnitude to penetrate the minds, hearts, wills and bodies of human artists. Buy this album, blast it in the park on huge speakers, and watch the Life change before your EyEs... We have truely reached those last clearing moments of twilight before the Dawning of the Dawn. VISION CREATION NEWSUN, is CONSUMMATE PROOF. By the way... Bordoms are definately into the Mayan Calendar, (if that means anything at all to you :) The overwhelming sense after one full listen, is that NOW is the most magnificent moment to be living on Earth. |
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| "Boredoms are super Good." | 2001-10-31 |
| - Reviewed By donkeye |
| So many Boredoms fans fell apart like little popscicle monkeys when suddenly, with Super Ae, it became entirely clear that the group had left behind the avant-noise, John Zorn-style jazz that made them famous. They were at their height (Pop Tatari) the most frightening, confusing, and amazing rock band on the planet. They opened for Nirvana and Sonic Youth and reportedly bested the bands. Audiences howled like rhesus monkeys. Let me now suddenly abruptly jump to 2000 and this album Vision Creation New Sun, which is the greatest album of their careers. Thank our lucky stars that Boredoms have left behind their old style. How many more albums like that did they need to do? Why is it so upsetting to some people when a band grows and redefines itself. It is hard for me to see how this album is a disappointment to anyone. It's an absolute marvel. This, effectively, is a religious artifact. These Boredoms are desperately whirling towards some kind of psychedelic heaven. The music is at once subtle and sensible and reverential, as well as intense, thundering, primal, and deeply deeply unconscious. A person could get lost in this like some kind of Sufi experiment. This is a cooked album. When I heard this album I bawled like I'd just made a breakthrough in therapy. Long lost memories vaulted back into my face, and I fell to the wall-to-wall carpet and curled up in a fetal ball and wept for the greatness of the world to take pity on me. Boredoms are God. I know this now. |
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 "Boredoms Boring?" | 2001-06-27 |
| - Reviewed By maclen9938 |
| I'm sorry, but the Boredoms doing Psychedelic doesn't seem right to me. I was expecting somewhat more avant-guarde noise, so I had to check the disk to make sure that they didn't insert a Kraftwork CD in the case by mistake. At least I still have The Ruins and Yoshida Tatsuya's other side projects. I was disapointed, but if you are abit afraid of the more avante-guarde material, you might find this enjoyable, especially as background music. |
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