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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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

DAYVAN COWBOY.

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

(in headphones)

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the leslie nielsen sample.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the leslie nielsen sample.

otm

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

especially DAYVAN COWBOY!

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

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

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

because some of us have ACTUAL REAL PROMOS

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

OK BEN FIGURE IT ALL OUT

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

boc to the drawing board.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the back cover..

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

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

Where is a Leslie Nielsen sample?

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

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

It's not Freescha, somebody else.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

phamphire pheadphase

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Good grief how is this thread still going?

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

I have a kaleidoscope

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

lossless rip??

― stu, Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

oxymoron??

― amon (eman), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

It does sound like Moon Safari.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 7 October 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link

it's bobbins

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

no it's not

― Bill A (Bill A), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm not feeling it.

It's not Freescha, somebody else.

-- Rakel (m...), September 28th, 2005 8:11 PM.

aaargh, then who??

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link

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