SayorisRope

The only other album to give me crippling anxiety. The production and instrumentals were so noisy, so destructive, so anxiety inducing, so creepy, so disgusting and filthy, it genuinely gave me the greatest migraine of all time. City Song was one of the greatest drops I’ve ever heard. The synth squeals, the noisy guitar, simple drums, and Alexis’s slam poetry style singing. The whole album is loud and disgusting. Satan In The Wait builds up to something horrible in the best way. ... read more

Boris made an album so enthralling, so noisy, and yet so melodic in way that combines every genre it’s inspired by. Threads of Doom, Sludge, Drone, despite what the internet says, Maximilism. The evil tones of Blackout, the punk tones of Woman In The Screen, Pink, and Nothing Special, and the long, hazy melodies, of Farewell and Just Abandoned Myself. A good album in total, though some boring tracks here and there.

Although it isn’t a full flexed hit album like say, BALLADS1 or SMITHEREENS, it fleshes out his sonic identity to the max. It went though each phase and face of his career, including some new sounds in songs such as Sojourn, the lead single PIXELATED KISSES, and the melancholy bass boosted closer Dior. The only real issues with this album- a good portion of the songs are very short. While it makes for a breezy listen, it seems like Joji took a ton of demos and closed them off and finished ... read more