LP - BORIS & UNIFORM - BRIGHT NEW DISEASE Limited Red vinyl

Boris and Uniform might have seemed like a strange pairing when
they teamed up for a US tour back in 2019. Sure, both bands
harness the power of big, blown-out riffs, but Boris's rock heroics,
lysergic sprawl, and monolithic sludge summon a different energy
than Uniform's mechanized bombardments and frenzied assaults.
However, when Boris invited Uniform to team up on a reimagined
version of their classic "Akuma no Uta" as a part of their encore,
there was an obvious chemistry between the artists. The idea of a
collaborative album came up, and the bands spent the next year
swapping song ideas and recordings from their homebase studios
until Boris and Uniform had an album that captured the fearless
exploration and unbridled power of their live performances. Sacred
Bones Records is proud to present the Boris & Uniform
collaborative album Bright New Disease. Bright New Disease opens
with the collaboration's first single, "You're the Beginning," a
ferocious thrash-inflected banger concocted by the Boris camp.
From there the album continues its relentless assault with
"Weaponized Grief," a fevered mashup of Japanese D-beat and
Boredoms' deliberately mismatched sonic textures. There isn't a
moment to sift through the wreckage before the bands launch into
"No," a deliberate nod to the Japanese hardcore homage of Boris's
2020 album NO. Respite finally comes with the glacial amplifier
worship of "The Look is a Flame," a Boris-penned song meant to
evoke light and salvation over gloom and cruelty. Further
heightened by the cosmic synth work of Randall Dunn and the
groaning bass of Steve Moore, it retains the ominous timbre of the
album while also hinting at the possibility of redemption. The
album's timbral pallete continues to broaden on the latter half of
Bright New Disease, such as on the standout track "Narcotic
Shadow." Constructed around Berdan's modular synth arpeggios,
aided by Boris's dark wave / new romantic-inspired vocals, and
abetted by Greenberg's warped studio manipulations, the song
offers up a sleazy and woozy counterpoint to the unbridled rage of
the album's first half. Similarly, "A Man From the Earth" feels less
centered on catharsis and more fixated on a gritty, buried-in-the-red
spin on David Bowie's glam years. But these deviations only serve
to make the album closer and second single, "Not Surprised," all the
more bleak, anguished, and harrowing.

TRACKLISTING: 01. YOU ARE THE BEGINNING 02. WEAPONIZED GRIEF
03. NO 04. THE LOOK IS A FLAME 05. ANGELS IN THE ABYSS
(ABADDON) 06. NARCOTIC SHADOW 07. A MAN FROM THE EARTH
08. ENDLESS DEATH AGONY 09. NOT SURPRISED