Heavy Rocks - Boris
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: The Japanese experimental band's 16th album shares the same release date as Attention Please and seeks to redefine heavy music.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. May 24, 2011
    83
    Boris has evolved a lot over the past decade, and the album is far less raw and furious than its 2002 namesake.
  2. Jun 28, 2011
    80
    Superior, though, is Heavy Rocks, the group's second release to go by that name. [Jul 2011, p.79]
  3. Nov 22, 2011
    60
    This stylish set quantum leaps from the title track's ethereal doom disco to the acid-damaged dreampop of Tokyo Wonderland via robo-glam rave-up Party Boy, and deserves to find these most playful of veterans a wider audience. [Aug. 2011, p. 92]

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