Review:

on 2008-02-26 Rahgwood Said:

This is profoundly interesting music. Within two minutes your head is enveloped with questions of what is going on and where does this come from? Where is it going? One of the great powers music has is to provide context for personal visualisation. The Boredoms invoke a world of surprising complexity and variety.
With \"Pop Tatari\" the Boredoms front a semblance of madness and savage barbarism. Beautiful in and of itself, but the scents of tender brilliance (certain parts of \"bo go\" and the first half of \"cory & the mandara suicide pyramid action or gas satori\" not the acoustic interludes) that peak through are almost transcendental, if hard to detect. Caking something in screaming gibbers, I use this term in the kindest possible way, and glorious fuzz cannot hide the fullness each step contains. They make it more exciting.
This album is like a work printed halfway through being made. The starts and stops, notable in \"hey bore hey\" and \"molecicco\", take you out of the world of the music into the wild fun the musicians are enjoying in the process of their creation. This shattering of the musical progress of the work gives one a sense of pandemonium, breaking one\'s bearing towards it, when expecting to be taken from music a down to music z. Whether intentional or not there is a reckoning happening with how an album is to be constructed and organized. This illusion of semi-completeness makes for true finish; something is imparted, something conveyed.
Listening to this music much is hinted at, and little direction given. This is music of exploration. Like early rock and roll it has an earnestness to it and roughness, it must be said, even though it lacks the level of energetic naiveté of the other. When a band makes this they know what they are doing. This is not music from radio babies, it has the strength that good listening has given it without any slavish devotion to particular tastes and flavours.
If recommending this album to someone I would suggest telling them this, \"Listen.\" Listen meaning listen, it does not mean put it on while doing homework, it does not mean playing it at a party. To claim these are listening environments is to lie and do a dishonour to the art of listening. How much music is misunderstood due to superficial listening? And how much unjustifiably raised on pedestals because of the same? Music should be enjoyed for itself, we shame it with our soundtrack mentality, and this is the kind of music perfect for holding one\'s attention.
Rating: 8/10