boards of canada - the campfire headphase

If by ripping themselves off you mean refining and honing their sound until it's even more fucking awesome than it already was, I hope they rip themselves off some more.

Robinson

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Yeah, I think it's shit. It's the cover of MHTRTC plus some extra mid '90s techo-shit added on top. So, I predict the new album will sound exactly like MHTR with added digital glitchery.

Therefore in 2005....Chems release a [crap] album ..would BoC follow similar artwork, as if !

There was a bit more to the Chemicals/BoC artwork similarities than just the orange!

I have come to really like the new Chemicals album!

Also, it makes me think of
http://www.8bitclassics.com/images/images_big/atari-logo.jpg,
even though there's no real similarity...

Awesome color scheme, though. I like the sort-of rotten, aged, almost sepia look.

Seriously, how could anyone find any similarities between two green-tinged pictures of out-of-focus human figures standing in front of an indistinct nature scene?

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/10.shtml

01 Into the Rainbow Vein
02 Chromakey Dreamcoat
03 Satellite Anthem Icarus
04 Peacock Tail
05 Dayvan Cowboy
06 A Moment of Clarity
07 '84 Pontiac Dream
08 Sherbert Head
09 Oscar See Through Red Eye
10 Ataronchronon
11 Hey Saturday Sun
12 Constants Are Changing
13 Slow This Bird Down
14 Tears From the Compound Eye
15 Farewell Fire

i mean, it's obviously a BOC cover, but it doesnt seem like a copy of Music has the Right. on my screen it seems a lot more blue. in any case, i just get a different feel. nothing worth arguing about of course.

Hmmmm.

http://www.american-buddha.com/anickdrakeabol2_small.jpg

where was that thread with the fake boards of canada song titles? i can't find it but it's one of my favourite threads ever.

(xpost i like mark p's a few posts below that)

http://www.warprecords.com/boc/campfire.jpg

Listening now. It's very pleasant, and there are familiar melodies and sounds which fall like candied fruit into my recollective mind. BoC have a habit of doing this - these little sonic triggers that bury-in over time. The strings on Dayvan Cowboy have never sounded so gorgeous.

Still not a fan of those super-bright and shimmery acoustic guitar sounds, and probably never will be. Reminds me of that "folktronica" craze in the early-2000s which did nothing for me. The incongruity of electronic beats + chimey acoustic guitar just isn't a sound combination I generally enjoy.

Despite knowing the reasons why, I think leaving out all the cool samples does this album down a bit - there's less to latch on to, and it does end up coming off as a pleasant-if-backgroundy album of beats and sounds as opposed to a thematic work like MHTRTC. I hear a lot of DNA with something like Air's '10,000Hz The Legend', but even that album had enough presentative weirdness going on to justify its relaxed 70s space-lounge vibe.

and tomorrow’s harvest is their masterpiece

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Monday, August 11, 2025 1:17 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely

also, terrific posts, dog latin.

unlike dog latin I think the folktronica stuff aged very well. I know, I wasn't really expecting it to either. but I go back and listen to early Four Tet, The Books, etc...that music still sounds great to me. there was a period where I was over it but I dunno. I sure love it now. anyway I think this might be my favorite of theirs actually. the key for me was getting into those tracks in the second half, since the first half I loved right from the start. but geez, there's some real pretty stuff in there. I dig the messed up country vibes on a track like Hey Saturday Sun. if only they'd went out on a limb like this more instead of releasing albums once every never these days

Yeah ... their last masterpiece imho. A perfect headphone album.

Anybody ever figure out what that track was that had the sample "I was kind of on my own" in one of the fake sets with all the Freescha tunes?
― Rakel, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:23

21 years later and if I still have the mp3 it's on a dusty old external drive that may not work anymore but would still like to know this :)

Oh yeah me too. I liked that tune

Played this today and still struggle to find anything that holds my interest aside from Slow This Bird Down

It's my least favourite of theirs, I struggle to remember much beyond Chromakey Dreamcoat, Dayvan Cowboy and Peacock Tail.

'84 Pontiac Dream is the keeper of this for me

the lack of fun samples and backmasking and whatnot really smooths the record out though. for people like me, for whom "fun samples and backmasking" is half the appeal of BoC, it does take it into blandish territory. but I can see why a lot of people have no need for all that jiggery-pokery and want to hear a cleaner, more unadulterated BoC

"slow this bird down" might be my favorite track of theirs. incredible yet understated feat of sound design

there are moments when this album hits just right

This album had the TUNES

A supremely comforting summertime album for lying in semi-shaded grass, took me literally decades to appreciate

ciderpress be sure to check out their remix of Beck’s “Broken Drum”, very much cut from the same cloth as “Bird”

A post I fondly think of from this thread is (re: Oscar See Through Red Eye) “Yes, it doesn’t ‘really go anywhere’ because its already there!” I’ve stolen it many times over the years.

bit of a constants are changing head myself

my fave boc easy