Boris and Merzbow both hail from Japan and share a deep love of pushing the boundaries of noise rock to its limits, so it makes sense that they’d join forces at some point. In fact, 2R0I2P0 – which translates to RIP 2020 – will be the eighth time they’ve done so. Every time these two collide it feels like a major event, so it’s a surprise that there’s no new material on this record, just reworkings of songs from Boris’ previous album Love & Evol, as well as a reimagining of their cover of the Melvins’ song from which they take their name. This is a huge step away from recent record No. While that was the most traditionally heavy album the band had ever released, here Boris plug away at soft, slow and dreamy sounding psychedelia, while Merzbow creates ...
