#14 - Pink

#14
Artist: Boris
Album: Pink
Year of Release: 2005
Label: Southern Lord

Pink is three things.  First, it's the soaring introductory track "Farewell," which is about as perfect a marriage of shoegaze and metal sensibilities as is possible.  Second, it's a rip-roaring collection of incredibly loud tracks that thrash and groove in an uncannily self-assured manner.  And finally, it's the logical culmination of such a trajectory, an eighteen-minute death dirge lovingly titled "Just Abandoned Myself."  This final track moves flawlessly from the record's most propulsive beat into a formless wall of noise that somehow manages to ramp up the intensity even further.  It isn't until the final seconds that you're finally able to relax, but after listening to Pink you might not be able to relax ever again.