Smile
- Boris
- Band Name: Boris
- Record Label: Southern Lord
- Release Date: Apr 29, 2008
- Summary: The Japanese experimental group's latest album features guest musicians Michio Kurihara of Ghost and Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))).
- Record Label: Southern Lord
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental, Metal
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 2 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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To call this "sunstroked desert hallucination mood music" sells it short. It actually transforms the atmosphere of the space in which it's played. [June 2008, p.132]
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80Smile finds them advancing that set melodic agenda and playful rearrangement of classic rock DNA. [June 2008, p.109]
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60Smile does have it's special moments, but the problem is that they never amount to anything better than the star parts on their previous efforts.
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