Super Roots 3 is the third installment of the Super Roots EP series by Japanese experimental band Boredoms. It consists of one song, half an hour in length, which has a repetitive rhythm throughout. It was released in 1994 by Warner Music Japan, and was reissued in 2007 by Vice Music and the Very Friendly label.[1][2][3][4]
| Super Roots 3 | ||||
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| Released | November 30, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Noise rock | |||
| Length | 33:32 | |||
| Label | Warner Music Japan | |||
| Producer | Boredoms | |||
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Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
| Pitchfork | 6.9/10[5] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [6] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music | [7] |
In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek called the music "one solid blast-ass cut," and wrote: "This is the Boredoms at their most monotonous, but then again, the riff progression has teeth and great drums, and its subtle change is hypnotic in a brutal but no less hedonistic manner."[4]
Pitchfork's Dominique Leone described the album as "a straightforward fusion of hardcore punk and purity through repetition," and commented: "Perhaps Eye got the idea from his heroes Bad Brains, who while never playing any 30-minute hardcore jams, did suggest the possibility that cosmic enlightenment and violent pummeling via riffs and beats were by no means mutually exclusive."[5]
Mark Fisher of Frieze noted that, on the album, the goal was to "combine Acid Rock's expansive wig-outs with Punk's cropped economy." He remarked: "'Hard Trance Away...' produces psychedelic effects with the barest of means... The locked groove repetition soon attains a kind of agitated stillness, a thrashing stasis."[8]
A writer for Freq stated: "33 minutes of monolithic manic pulverising powerful riffs. A full on headlong assault. This is essential stuff."[9]
Track listing
edit- "Hard Trance Away (Karaoke of Cosmos)" – 33:32
References
edit- ^ "Details for release: Boredoms — Super Roots 3". Exposé Online. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ "Boredoms: Super Roots 3". ArtistInfo. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ Raymer, Miles (January 26, 2007). "Vice reissues the Boredoms' Super Roots series". Chicago Reader. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ a b c Jurek, Thom. "Super Roots, Vol. 3 - Boredoms". AllMusic.
- ^ a b Leone, Dominique (February 1, 2007). "Boredoms: Super Roots 1/3/5". Pitchfork.
- ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 95.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music. Virgin Books. p. 1999.
- ^ Fisher, Mark (April 15, 2007). "Super Roots". Frieze. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ "Boredoms – Super Roots 1,3,5,6,7,8". Freq. June 30, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2023.