Super Roots 3 is the third installment of the Super Roots EP series by Japanese experimental band Boredoms. It consists of one song, half an hour in length, which has a repetitive rhythm throughout. It was released in 1994 by Warner Music Japan, and was reissued in 2007 by Vice Music and the Very Friendly label.[1][2][3][4]

Super Roots 3
EP by
ReleasedNovember 30, 1994 (1994-11-30)
GenreNoise rock
Length33:32
LabelWarner Music Japan
ProducerBoredoms
Boredoms chronology
Chocolate Synthesizer
(1994)
Super Roots 3
(1994)
Super Roots 5
(1995)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [4]
Pitchfork6.9/10[5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide     [6]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music     [7]

In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek called the music "one solid blast-ass cut," and wrote: "This is the Boredoms at their most monotonous, but then again, the riff progression has teeth and great drums, and its subtle change is hypnotic in a brutal but no less hedonistic manner."[4]

Pitchfork's Dominique Leone described the album as "a straightforward fusion of hardcore punk and purity through repetition," and commented: "Perhaps Eye got the idea from his heroes Bad Brains, who while never playing any 30-minute hardcore jams, did suggest the possibility that cosmic enlightenment and violent pummeling via riffs and beats were by no means mutually exclusive."[5]

Mark Fisher of Frieze noted that, on the album, the goal was to "combine Acid Rock's expansive wig-outs with Punk's cropped economy." He remarked: "'Hard Trance Away...' produces psychedelic effects with the barest of means... The locked groove repetition soon attains a kind of agitated stillness, a thrashing stasis."[8]

A writer for Freq stated: "33 minutes of monolithic manic pulverising powerful riffs. A full on headlong assault. This is essential stuff."[9]

Track listing

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  1. "Hard Trance Away (Karaoke of Cosmos)" – 33:32

References

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  1. ^ "Details for release: Boredoms — Super Roots 3". Exposé Online. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  2. ^ "Boredoms: Super Roots 3". ArtistInfo. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  3. ^ Raymer, Miles (January 26, 2007). "Vice reissues the Boredoms' Super Roots series". Chicago Reader. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Jurek, Thom. "Super Roots, Vol. 3 - Boredoms". AllMusic.
  5. ^ a b Leone, Dominique (February 1, 2007). "Boredoms: Super Roots 1/3/5". Pitchfork.
  6. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 95.
  7. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music. Virgin Books. p. 1999.
  8. ^ Fisher, Mark (April 15, 2007). "Super Roots". Frieze. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  9. ^ "Boredoms – Super Roots 1,3,5,6,7,8". Freq. June 30, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2023.