Vision Creation Newsun

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Vision Creation Newsun
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Studio album by Boredoms
Released October 27, 1999 (1999-10-27)
Genre Experimental rock, krautrock, post-rock, psychedelic rock
Length 65:51
Label Birdman, WEA Japan
Boredoms chronology
Vision Creation Newsun (EP)
(1999)Vision Creation Newsun (EP)1999
Vision Creation Newsun
(1999)
Rebore, vol. 1
(2001)Rebore, vol. 12001
Box set cover
Cover for the box set version of Vision Creation Newsun.
Cover for the box set version of Vision Creation Newsun.
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
NME (9/10)[2]
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10.0)[3]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[4]

Vision Creation Newsun is a 1999 album by Boredoms released by WEA Japan. The standard one-disc edition was released in Japan December 10, 1999 and in the United States the following year by Birdman Records. Vision Creation Newsun was rated #39 in Pitchfork's Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.[5]

Track listing

With the exception of track #9, each song's title is represented officially by a symbol. When referring to these tracks in print and in MP3 tags, the alternate names (including parentheses) are often used.

No. Title Length
1. "◯" (circle) 13:42
2. "☆" (star) 5:22
3. "♡" (heart) 6:51
4. "Ҩ" (spiral) 6:33
5. "~" (tilde) 6:19
6. "◎" (two circles) 7:21
7. "↑" (arrow up) 6:26
8. "Ω" (omega) 7:36
9. "ずっと" ("Zutto" ("Forever")) 7:31

Limited edition

The album was originally released with alternative artwork, a second disc, a T-shirt, a sticker, and an electronic device that played sampled frog noises when the box was opened. The second disc contains a 30+ minute live track consisting of an unreleased song and the opening track from the studio disc. The track is bookended by two short edits of tracks from the studio disc.[6]

Disc 2 tracklist
No. Title Length
1. "⊙" (circle with dot) (remix of "☆") 1:28
2. "Boredoms-vcn-disc2-track2.svg" (hourglass/ Boretronix logo) (Live Nov '98 (Osaka City Univ. Outdoor Free Concert)) 35:38
3. "◌" (dotted circle) (remix of "♡") 5:33

References


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