The fourth Boredoms album, from 1994, Chocolate Synthesizer was the Boredoms second major-label album and, while it bears little or no resemblance to their new stuff, its absolutely essential listening and very much in the same ecstatic spirit. It's very raw but also very sophisticated - blending elements of speed-core, punk (there seems to a tribute of sorts to the Electric Eels at one point), dub, psychedelia, biker rock, Kodo, the gross-out too-muchness of the Butthole Surfers at their lunatic best and what sounds like an unending curiosity as to 'what that button does' in the studio.

The Boredoms never sound remotely self-conscious and the exercise is never bogged down by the grim worthiness which plagues post-rock these days... It's like a musical lucky dip where everyone wins. Don’t expect 'songs' as such - this is defiantly leftfield - at the same time it's not po-faced experimentalism for its own sake, and the scatalogical enthusiasm of the band is as infectious as it gets.