9. BoredomsVision Creation Newsun

Vision Creation Newsun is a really intense, amazing record, characterised by some exciting studio manipulations. But instead of working on stringently written material, and messing with that in the studio, they mess with long form jams and sound explorations.

I first stumbled across it when I was about 14. I’m not usually a fan of endless, longform jamming a lot of the time. I think relying on repetition can be a bit cheap sometimes. But this album has just enough to keep me gripped, and just enough creative manipulation that it stays absolutely enthralling across the whole of an hour. It’s the sound of a huge ensemble going completely wild.

Even though there’s nine parts, there’s really only three tracks, three riffs that keep coming back and coming back.

Sometimes I go back to the things I got into at the same time as this, and find that they’ve lost their power, but this remains Earth shattering. It’s extremely effective and affecting music. I like a lot of Boredoms’ other material – I think Super AE is super good, but it’s a bit sillier than this. I like a lot of other Japanese music – there’s a couple of Ground Zero albums I consider to be favourites, but they didn’t quite make the cut.