Vision Creation Newsun

Vision Creation Newsun
Studio album by Boredoms
Released	October 27, 1999
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 (1999) Rebore, vol. 1 (2001)
Box set cover
Cover for the box set version of Vision Creation Newsun.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
NME	(9/10)[2]
Pitchfork Media	(7.9/10.0)[3]
Rolling Stone	[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.	"" (hourglass/ Boretronix logo) (Live Nov '98 (Osaka City Univ. Outdoor Free Concert))	35:38
3.	"◌" (dotted circle) (remix of "♡")	5:33

References

1. Allmusic review
2. NME review
4. http://books.google.com/books?ei=7h11T8iYG-Xi0QGlhbXNDQ&id=t9eocwUfoSoC&dq=super+ae+vs+vision+creation+newsun&ots=BiKjmn3PV7&q=boredoms#v=snippet&q=boredoms&f=false
6. McFee, Jason. "Vision Creation Newsun". Bullets of Autumn.com. Retrieved 2007-08-05.