Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 4th December 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

First issued in 2006, ‘Rainbow’ marked the maiden voyage of notorious headbangers Boris and Michio Kurihara, famed lead guitarist of Ghost and White Heaven. Performed together with fantastic harmony, ‘Rainbow’ is not just a perfect combination; it is a meeting place, with all players aligned in a singular cause - to make an album whose music elevates the listener.

Twenty years later, Drag City present their very own vinyl edition, right on time for the album’s 20th anniversary. The jacket’s done up in classic Boris style - a Stoughton single tip-on with special uncoated natural white paper, holographic foil stamping and custom front sticker, with lyrics reproduced on an insert of translucent vellum.

For such a formidable combine of noise-making rock & rollers, ‘Rainbow’’s negative spaces provide as much definition as their distorted guitars. Boris’ trio are all avid experimentalists. Kurihara’s guitar goes from whisper to scream effortlessly, applying a distinctive tattoo to the musical flesh of their collaboration.

Make no mistake: ‘Rainbow’ does not lack for speaker shredding intensity. Opening with the power of ‘Rafflesia’, ‘Rainbow’ paces itself with short pop songs providing interludes among extended expeditions. A glockenspiel glimmers in the distance, Takeshi and Wata trade vocals, muted beauty is rocked open with droning, tom-pounding jams. A prism of sound colours shifts gracefully, giving the album its proper name.

‘Rainbow’’s a heavy rock album with classic melodic aims captured at an apex of hi-fi stereo recording. Boris array their rock elegantly, with great care and vigour, and Kurihara’s carefully contoured guitar tones accompany them with great sensitivity, whether playing Mesozoanstomps, serrated riffs or floating meditations.

Tracklisting
Rafflesia
Arco-íris
Narrador da espaçonave
Minha chuva
Brilho
Você sorriu como uma marca d'água
Reator difuso
Doce No1
...e, eu quero

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