Boris - Attention Please [12", LP]

One of the best concerts i've seen this year was BORIS' performance at the State X New Forms Festival last weekend. They really blew me away. Pictures here.
This is quite a non-typical Boris album. ATTENTION PLEASE was released in 2011 simultaneously with the album Heavy Rocks, and whereas Heavy Rocks is pretty heavy indeed (like we're used from them), this album is electronic, danceable and very quiet at times. Also it's the first album on which guitar player Wata does all the vocals. Spoon is definitely my favourite track on this album, as it sounds like a cover a long lost My Bloody Valentine song. A nice poster, lyrics sheet and download card finish it off. Great stuff.

Label: Sargent House
Cat.nr.: SH-056
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Attention Please
02. Hope
03. Party Boy
04. See You Next Week
05. Tokyo Wonder Land

SIDE B:
01. You
02. Aileron
03. Les Paul Custom '86
04. Spoon
05. Hand In Hand

Asobi Seksu / Boris - Split EP [7"]

This limited split 7" by ASOBI SEKSU and fellow-Japanese BORIS was released for Black Friday 2012. Only 1000 copies were made, and the special thing about this release is that both bands cover eachother's song. Farewell (in its original form a great shoegaze/post-metal song on the Pink album by Boris) is turned into a really nice electronic dreampop tune by Asobi Seksu. But my favourite of the two is Neu Years (originally on the Citrus album by Asobi Seksu, where it was called New Years) performed by Boris. They stay pretty close to the original; maybe that's why i like it that much, as it's one of my favourite Asobi Seksu tunes.

Label: Polyvinyl / Sargent House
Cat.nr.: PRC SH 001
Year of release: 2012

SIDE A:
01. ASOBI SEKSU - Farewell

SIDE B:
01. BORIS - Neu Years