Saturday Feb 11th, 1:38PM;

Oh my fucking god, why did nobody let me know before how FUCKING AMAZING The Boredoms’ ‘Super AR’ is??

I mean, stuff I’ve read/heard about it has it pegged as a kinda transitional album on which they started developing the genius stuff brought to fruition on ‘VisionCreationNewSun’.. so, probably pretty cool, I reasoned, but since I’ve already got the motherlode, I can probably let it slide for the minute.

Oh, why didn’t the fuckers tell me?? This is the most astonishing, invigorating thing I’ve heard in months... Yeah, it’s got the tranced-out tribal percussion, lunatic electronics and no-mind Buddhist euphoria of VCNS, but, but... this one’s also got, like, crazed punk rock jamfests and beautiful acoustic-y Japanese folk/drone moments when the attack fades out and, and, and, oh my god, and MASSIVE FUCKING MOUNTAINOUS METAL GUITAR RIFFS of the kind you need an icepick to get the top of, piled up in carefully textured, multi-layered, psychedelic fucking bliss!!!

It’s so amazing I think I’m going to explode, but before I do, I’ll find time to note that this album is from, like, what, 1999 [AllMusic sez '98]? And somehow it manages to combine pretty much EVERY sound and idea that’s been considered trendy and exciting in underground rock over the past 5 years or so into one perfectly realised, unified whole... and then just ROCKS it into oblivion.

Track 1 sounds like a Boris album being played through an echoplex on a mutated turntable that keeps dramatically speeding up and slowing down.

Track 3 gets so fucking intensely cosmic I think I’ll be convulsing on the floor dreaming I’ve just founded a colony on the moons of Jupiter by the time it’s over – and I’ve only got it on quietly!

Track 4 sounds like a deathmatch between Neu! and the Butthole Surfers with Captain Beefheart trying to keep pace on vocals – no unwarranted exaggeration intended here folks, that is actually what it sounds like.

After that things get pretty freaky and disjointed in the spirit of the earlier, messier Boredoms albums, but y’know, after the proceeding four tracks I think my senses have been stretched and pummelled to the extent that I’m right there with ‘em for once and can dig whatever they wanna throw at me.

I’ll never forgive the music community, independent media and interwebnet-o-sphere for leading me to believe I could sleep on an album this sensational for years.

Fucking wow.