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boc produce... music?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Mmm... listened to this one all the way through today. Must say that no tracks really stand out except Chromakey Dreamcoat, and even that song after a few listens has gotten old and lost it's appeal. I think the main thing I have to say about this album is it's just a major down step in quality and real emotional songwriting. It sounds like someone trying to be Boards of Canada who sucks. I also dislike the excessive silence in the last few tracks. There just isn't enough concrete BoC melody and addictive beats. It's very simple, quiet, and dramatically less thoughtful, calming, and interesting. Not enough intrigue, not enough originality, and what's with those lame guitars? I'm sorry but this album sucks, in comparison with BoCs other albums and electronic music in general. Any one of Venetian Snares album has more thought and feeling put in to one track than all these tracks combined.

― Curtiss, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Another complaint... Does anyone else hate how a lot of the songs fade out? What happened to the seamless instrumental interlude transitions of MHRTC and Geogaddi. Man I so friggin disappointed and I don't think I've ever built an album up as much as this one.

― Curtiss, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

DAYVAN COWBOY.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I think that it sounds less creepy, which always seemed affected and pretentious to me, as if they were just baiting the fans who read too much into it. Maybe there's an eerieness that's lost? I don't know, I'll listen again, but I really really enjoyed it this weekend.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm wondering why you would have built this one up so much. I mean, Geogaddi wasn't a huge departure, were you expecting something radically different? I guess I'm not clued in to what the die hard fan's expectatings were for this one.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

i can't figure out if i like "dayvan cowboy" or not! i think maybe i would be more receptive to it if it was by a different band. i find the strings very trip-hoppy, which is something i thought i'd never ever say about boc, much less in 2005!

"peacock tail" is still my runaway favorite, with "slow this bird down" a distant second.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

it has a number of trip-hoppy moments, i find.

there are some things i actually think BOC have gotten better at with this album (does 'dynamics' made any sense here? a more controlled and carefully deployed use of filigree 'fx', at any rate), which makes its failings all the more frustrating (more than any backwards-run creepiness, i still feel it's just missing CHUNK)

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

(btw referring to any part of any music as either filigree or fx offends me as much as its likely to anyone else)

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Don't go hatin' on This Mortal Coil! (perhaps an interesting compare and contrast actually with BoC)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

DAYVAN COWBOY.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

(in headphones)

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah dayvan is quite good. have they been listening to fennesz?

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to this album for the last week. For me it falls between MHTRTC and Geogaddi. I like it 100 times more than 'Geo', but it does't touch 'Music', mostly due to the lack of that eerie mysteriousness that hit the right spot on MHTRTC and Hi Scores EP (but was overdone to the point of self-parody on Geogaddi aka "the Leslie Neilson album" imo).

This quote hits the nail on the head:

So, as everyone should do, I got very stoned and listened to this album with friends.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Monday, 12 September 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

i love the leslie nielsen sample.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 12 September 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004KPHY.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 12 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Wait, what did this turn out to be?

One of the tracks leaked. Not sure which though. Buit its here:

http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=38COJY4L24XV11ZLSXZ3RKWAZV

-- Googley Asearch, August 11th, 2005.

It's called "1.mp3", has no tags, runs 4:58 -- and I like it! So what's the ID?

― christmas lights (christmaslights), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

i think this one, besides a few tracks here and there, is godawful boring and made me go back and appreciate geogaddi even more. i never really found any of their stuff that eerie or mysterious to begin with, but i thought music has the right.. was cheeseball esp. considering all the lame hype surrounding it, and all the idmers waxing poetic, etc..

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

i love the leslie nielsen sample.

otm

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

Cd sounds nice on one listen, though it does sound like boards have made their "moon safari".
You won't escape this album over the next 2 years.....it'll be piped everywhere.....

― roy, Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

whatever, if i was stoned and walked into a coffee shop and heard this music playing, i would ask what it was.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

especially DAYVAN COWBOY!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

how are we 100 percent sure that this is all actually boards of canada?

― ben, Friday, 16 September 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

because some of us have ACTUAL REAL PROMOS

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

i like Chromakey Dreamcoat a lot, the rest of the album seems like a grower maybe, haven't heard enough yet. i think each record they do, the drums get less intrusive (the one thing i always liked least about boc were the clumpy and too foregrounded drums).

it is funny, how a new album by a band, can make a previously "mixed response" type album seem better than it did before, with so many (self included) picking out the many good parts of geogaddi (agreed, particularly, about the leslie nielsen sample)

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

has anyone trie playing these songs backward or anything like that?
or have you listened closely to what the voices on the album are saying
i believe that they are a bit harder to decipher on this one

― ben, Saturday, 17 September 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

OK BEN FIGURE IT ALL OUT

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 17 September 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

boc to the drawing board.

― amon (eman), Saturday, 17 September 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

constants are changing and slow this bird down are definitely my favorite tracks and stand out most to me.
anyone else agree?

― ben, Sunday, 18 September 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I love the back cover..

http://xltronic.com/mb/attachments/307_1725488.jpg

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 18 September 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

Where is a Leslie Nielsen sample?

― Mushu, Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.classicscifi.com/images/photos/leslieneilsen.jpg http://www.cyranos.ch/doppnie7.jpg

― amon (eman), Sunday, 18 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

OMM review Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase [Reviewed by Simon Reynolds]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 18 September 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

heh, "splashing pools of mercury" must be one of the most commonly recurrning reynolds (and reynolds copyists?) evocative sound desciption phrases.

and, uh, oops: why are all the 'burn it' recommendations actually tracks from the new animal collective record?

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 18 September 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

This is a quality album. They have really pulled a blinder with this one. Way to go Boards!

― Pleased, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

and, uh, oops: why are all the 'burn it' recommendations actually tracks from the new animal collective record?

ha, good call

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thewire.co.uk/current/images/260cover.jpg

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

So who was right about the "fakes" above. Who had the earliest actual track and who wrongly decried their gift???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

shhhh on Sept. 2nd uploaded the first REAL real track

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

rizzx's werent' real? I remember them being quite good.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

interview at pitchfork today where they reveal that they are brothers, but didn't want to be compared to orbital. weird.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/b/boards-of-canada-05/

― La Monte (La Monte), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

that's a far out thread.. and I only found out today that they have a new album coming out, I guess I missed all the fun here.. too bad

― Dimitar, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

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 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Which Freescha track was that because that was the one I really liked.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

It's not Freescha, somebody else.

― Rakel, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

the ultimate indicator of pre-release hype:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Boards-of-canada-Kaleidoscope-very-Rare-Warp-Skam-Aphex_W0QQitemZ4773127933QQcategoryZ9991QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

...um, it's a kaleidoscope (considering the highest bid so far, it must be a magic one.)

― venimdenim, Sunday, 2 October 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

speaking of pre-release hype...does anyone know if there is going to be limited-edition released? (you know, kinda like the "limited" edition release of geogaddi that can still be found on warpmart like four years later!)

― venimdenim, Sunday, 2 October 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

phamphire pheadphase

― amon (eman), Sunday, 2 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

After reading this here, http://boardsofcanada.watmm.com/, I was wondering if Macquarie Ridge has leaked anywhere. I haven't been able to find it on soulseek...

"The Japanese version of The Campfire Headphase, BoC's 3rd album due out October 17th in the US and UK, features a bonus track called Macquarie Ridge, made especially for this release. The Japanese version of TCH is due out October 12th, a full five days before the UK and US versions. However, be warned - it currently retails for 2500 Yen, which is about 22USD and about 12 and a half British pounds."

― malefactor, Monday, 3 October 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Good grief how is this thread still going?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

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