Boredoms

During five years of relative post-millennial silence, Boredoms changed its name to Vooredoms, swapped out its guitarist and bassist for two more drummers and attached itself to sunny psychedelia like a rabid Rottweiler. Celebrating its eighteenth year of experimental surrealism, Lead Bore Yamataka Eye presents a pair of unedited, trance-inducing marathon jams that clock in at over twenty minutes apiece. “Seadrum,” the more complex and dynamic of the two, begins with unaccompanied a cappella moaning (presumably from longtime drummer Yoshimi Yokota, though the album comes with no recording info, credits or liner notes). It soon launches full bore into an extended, tempo-changing, monolithic drum circle replete with heavily processed tablas and falling piano crescendos. “House of Sun” takes a far less exhilarating approach, testing the listener’s patience with the endless droning buzz of sitars. Apparently, a raga can’t be rushed. But this thing won’t finish soon enough — like some lazy holy man phoning it in.