With this year’s release of Smile, Boris simultaneously delighted and frustrated audiences worldwide. Although the format fetishism was well-telegraphed (their 2006 album, Vein, was a vinyl-only affair), fans of this loud Japanese trio gnashed their teeth at the multitude of ways in which to ingest the album. With different mixes and track listings spread across three different versions (Japanese and U.S. CDs, U.S. vinyl), along with a limited-edition bonus DVD tacked on to early pressings, a download card that featured still more cuts and other mind-numbing variations, it would end up costing more than $100 to get all the music Boris recorded for Smile. And it’s totally worth it. The disc is perhaps the best distillation of the group’s sound to date: weird, loud, playful, heavy, song-based, abstract, psychedelic … all the adjectives that have been working overtime in service to Boris’s distinct take on post-metal.
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