Bleep

Returning to each other’s warm company for the first time since 2016’s Gensho, Japanese experimental heavyweights Boris and Merzbow collide for another meticulously nasty pile-on of doom and harsh noise. 2R0I2P0, a deliberate scrambling of “2020 RIP”, chimes in the promise of a brighter tomorrow as we shut the door on an infamous year of perpetual struggle. There’s a deep familiarity to these crushing works, and anyone searching for that Merzbow/Boris action will surely feel right at home under the sheer magnitude of these wide-open compositions, as the two acts strike a neat balance between beauty and horror.