Heavy Rocks - Boris
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  • Summary: The Japanese experimental band's 16th album shares the same release date as Attention Please and seeks to redefine heavy music.

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  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. The A.V. Club
    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. Revolver
    May 26, 2011
    80
    Inscrutable concept aside, the new Heavy Rocks doesn't so much redefine heavy music as reconsolidate all the things fans already love about Boris.
  3. Uncut
    Jun 28, 2011
    80
    Superior, though, is Heavy Rocks, the group's second release to go by that name. [Jul 2011, p.79]
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  4. Mojo
    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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