Boredoms: Seadrum / House of Sun

CML call number: CD/ROCK/Boredoms
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "Yamataka Eye has been leading the Japanese band the Boredoms for almost twenty years. … The Boredoms no longer play the spastic music that made their reputation. (They stopped doing that in 1995, when Eye, during a recording session, started chanting the same pattern over and over. "I had seen the sun rise," Eye told me. "I started thinking about my position in relation to the sun. I also thought that the sun made a sound. … I had an idea of what the sound would be like.") Their songs have evolved from short yelps into long exhalations — drones built around drum patterns that repeat for ten minutes or more — but the end result is not so different. Their music has never been rooted in a particular rhythm, vocal style, or genre. What the Boredoms do is capture a specific energy, and move around in it until they’ve exhausted its possibilities. … [Their] most recent album, 'Seadrum / House of Sun' (2005) … was recorded on a beach and consists of two compositions, each lasting more than twenty minutes. (On the album, some sounds were recorded underwater: the tide came in.)" (8/7/06)