Super Ae

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The Boredoms are a notorious Japanese rock group with an over-the-top, in-your-face artistic approach that is both ferocious and awe-inspiring. On its 10th full-length album, the Osaka-based ensemble exudes a sonic collage of trance-inducing drones, power-chord riffs, and enthusiastic jamming. While hyperkinetic frontman Yamatska Eye leads the Boredoms through seven extremely long compositions, this disc is rarely boring. On the opening song, "Super You," they embrace traditional rock structures with galloping drums and reverberating guitars that eventually melt into tribal-like chants and surreal studio effects. By combining their high-energy approach with sophisticated recording techniques, the Boredoms create a psychedelic milieu that celebrates unorthodox musicianship, instrumental excess, and raw energy. This is aggressive, contemporary rock music without the pretentious trappings of heavy metal or punk. --Mitch Meyers

Product Description
2000 reissue of 1998's release from one of the leaders of Japan's wave of noise bands. Very rhythmic and spacey. 2001 release.

Super Ae,The Boredoms,Birdman,Alternative Pop/Rock,Experimental Rock,Indie Rock,Noise,Noise-Rock,Pop,Popular Music,Rock,Rock/Pop

Super Ae

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Psych-Ambient B-O-R-E
Boredoms - 'Super Ae' (Birdman)
Super weird
brain expanding...ears bleeding...
not as good as Pop Tatari or Soul Discharge

Super Ae
The Boredoms
Manufacturer: Birdman
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00000DCTJ
Release Date: 1998-11-17

Tracks:

Super You
Super Are
Super Going
Super Coming
Super Are You
Super Shine - Boredoms B
Super Good

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The Boredoms are a notorious Japanese rock group with an over-the-top, in-your-face artistic approach that is both ferocious and awe-inspiring. On its 10th full-length album, the Osaka-based ensemble exudes a sonic collage of trance-inducing drones, power-chord riffs, and enthusiastic jamming. While hyperkinetic frontman Yamatska Eye leads the Boredoms through seven extremely long compositions, this disc is rarely boring. On the opening song, "Super You," they embrace traditional rock structures with galloping drums and reverberating guitars that eventually melt into tribal-like chants and surreal studio effects. By combining their high-energy approach with sophisticated recording techniques, the Boredoms create a psychedelic milieu that celebrates unorthodox musicianship, instrumental excess, and raw energy. This is aggressive, contemporary rock music without the pretentious trappings of heavy metal or punk. --Mitch Meyers

Album Description

2000 reissue of 1998's release from one of the leaders of Japan's wave of noise bands. Very rhythmic and spacey. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

Psych-Ambient B-O-R-E.......2007-04-07

This album is vastly different from the Boredoms' psychotic soundgasm that was Pop Tatari. This album explores a side of the Boredoms' sound that I feel was present but not always apparent. To begin, I will point out the similarities between The Boredoms' previous line of work, and then the differences. This album has some small parts in it that sounds like old B-O-R-E that are jumpy and fast paced but these sounds are much less present on this album. Also, a notable similarity is the use of electronic effects in the music, which is something the Boredoms have used since their early days. On this album, however, the electronic effects are even more apparent and are generally used for ambience, with the occasional record skip,noise, or tape manipulation thrown in for good measure. This album is also notably different because of the influences present on this album. Listening to older Boredoms albums its apparent that there is an influence from psychedelic music,tribal music, and classic rock but those influences took a back seat to noise,punk, and musique concrete influences. On this album the influences appear to be placed in a different order of importance. The psychedelic, tribal music, classic rock, and musique concrete have come to the foreground and take up most of this album, with some of the good noisiness thrown in occasionally. Listening to this album combines the sounds of Gong, Neu!, Can, and, to a lesser extent, Mr. Dorgon and Tangerine Dream to create something that is very psychedelic without losing the Boredoms sound. This album is definitely worth checking out if you are a fan of the band's early line of work but have a fondness for psychedelia, ambient music, and minimalism. This album gets 4 stars instead of five because sometimes it gets a little too repetitive but if you're in the right mood this album is perfect and amazing.

Boredoms - 'Super Ae' (Birdman).......2007-01-24

Good, decent '98 effort by this Japanese alternative noise-rock five piece. Someone suggested that I should check these guys out, knowing full well that I'm a huge fan of Acid Mothers Temple. It's apparent that at least some of the Boredom's musical influences come from British progressive and '70's krautrock. Stand outs here include "Super You", the twelve-minute "Super Coming" and "Super Good". Might appeal to Ruins, Royal Trux, Ruinzhatova and possibly even Acid Mothers Temple (including the band members themselves).

Super weird.......2006-05-17

If a group of peyote-addled Meso-American demigods were to try to record a tribute to Can, it would probably end up sounding somewhat similar to Super Ae. Where Boredoms' previous Chocolate Synthesizer was an aural stimulant, restlessly hopping from one genre to another in barely controlled bursts of noise, this album is more like a hallucinogen, gradually enveloping the listener in its hazy, trippy layers of sound. This is avant-garde rock that doesn't hold back on the rock, combining its fearsome heaviness with bizarre song structures in a way that practically makes Mr. Bungle sound commercial. True, most of the songs have a classic guitar and drum backing, but it's what the band members do with those instruments, as well as their penchant for spacey electronic effects and harsh use of tape loops, that elevates Super AE above mundane genre classifications.

First of all, for fans of Boredoms' more immediate earlier material, it should be noted that the tracks on Super AE are loooonnnnnnnggggg. There may only be seven pieces here, but most of them were clearly written for maximum expansiveness, clocking in an an average of about nine minutes apiece. These are some true epics, filled with minimalist grooves and fuzzed-out stoner-metal riffing that wouldn't sound too out of place on a Kyuss album, capped off by a mix of quasi-spirtual tribal chants, demented shrieking, and indecipherable grunts from the one and only Yamatsuka Eye. And while it can get a little playful at times (Super Are You briefly showcases the thrashy approach that made Boredoms notorious during their art-punk days), Super Ae is generally deadly serious when it comes to freaking out listeners. The songs on Super Ae don't really go anywhere, and there's certainly nothing resembling a traditional release or resolution to them, but with Boredoms listening really is a journey rather than a destination. Only the shimmering closer Super Good could be described as anything resembling easy listening, but from a band that's all about screwing with minds that feels just about right.

brain expanding...ears bleeding..........2005-11-30

it is strange how one song can be outstanding during one listen, yet horrible the next listen.

this is how i feel about this album. i feel it works well as background music while you are doing something else, or if you sit back and take it all in while doing nothing else. this is when i've enjoyed this album the most. i have also listened to this album through headphones while doing something else, and that is even better. but when doing something like driving, it seemed difficult to get through. for example: during a long roadtrip, i put this CD in and i kept thinking to myself, when will this song end!?

but when i am doing something else (housework, writing a paper, etc) it comes across as very relaxing...even with the pace changes and screams. in these instances, i almost cannot believe the CD is almost over...and i want to replay it. it is somewhat innovative and interesting. i just would not listen to it right after listening to "traditional" music (rock, pop, whatever). The Boredoms have a style and mood completely unique to them and to have this CD mixed into to others just disrupts the flow of not only the other CDs (b/c there are very few sounds like Super AE) but also the flow of this album itself.

this is a CD that is certainly not very everyone. in fact, i have not recommended it to anyone i know personally because i know that they do not have the patience to deal with this album. and patience is definitely needed. it is likely that most people cannot get through the spontaneous (yet somehow rhythmatic) tape speed changes in Track One, much less through the other moments of "oh-my-gosh-my-head-is-going-to-explode...oh-wait-it-calmed-down" in the remaining tracks.

the samples provided through this website really do no justice to The Boredoms or this album. so, if you have patience andare open to "new" (i.e. radical) types of music, then i would definitely buy this album. otherwise, steer clear of this because all it will be to you is "noise."

not as good as Pop Tatari or Soul Discharge.......2005-01-28

Pretty good, but not as good as some of their earlier albums, in my opinion.

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