“Ten years ago it would have been ridiculous to use the word "formula" when talking about the music of Osaka's Boredoms. In 1999, they were riding a wave of creativity the likes of which most bands can only dream about. In the year prior they'd released both *Super Roots 7*, which on better days sounds like the final word on the visceral power of rock'n'roll repetition, and *Super Ae*, on which the”
