BOREDOMS!!!!!!! (?)

Confession time: I never really understood the insane love affair that the indie world at large has had with Boredoms. Sure, Super AE and Vision Creation Newsun are pretty great records. Incredibly original, often fun, very cerebral, but… it just doesn’t stick with you after the record finishes spinning. Trying to decode their variety of releases is even more confusing than the ideas contained in them, there’s the Super Roots series (which doesn’t seem to really have a central idea, as far as I can tell), various side projects, the Rebore series, and God knows what else. So I’ve definitely committed the “crime” of being perplexed and wary of Boredoms but following on the advice of the entire independent music world, I decided that the live setting was a much better path for approach. And slap me if everybody and their super-hip mother wasn’t right! GOD DAMN! This is a live show and a half!
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