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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

listen to the full album here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A6129065

(if there's anyone left on this thread/board/internet) who hasn't yet)

I rather like it on first listen! Certainly tones down the unsettling elements, which I guess is dissapointing for hardcore BOC fans.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Bought it the other day and I like it. I can see where the chill out/moon safari/sell-out cries come from but frankly this is exactly the type of stuff I'd like to hear on a sunny October afternoon at the sea.

― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

"Peacock Tail" is immense, idn't it?

― Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, yes it is.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually the whole album's opening up now. I get the feeling this happens every time I get a new BoC, it needs a few plays before you hit the moment when it makes utter sense and eats up the whole universe.

― Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

eats up the whole universe
well said. it definitely eats up my whole collection. one of those albums which after each listen cries for the next one and does not allow any other cd to be played on my stereo. i wonder how many times it will spin before i can put on something else. right now it is the 7th time in four days, i think.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

How is it opening up? I'm still not feeling it.

― samg (samg), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Bought it today and on repeat play. It's lovely. I like how they seemed to have realized they'd taken the sampled voices as far as they could go on Geogaddi - taken into outright creepiness, mostly - and done away with them as a key element. I don't miss them on CH. And I also like how they've cleaned up the sound a bit while still filling the corners and edges with li'l surprises. Not as arcane or hermetic but definitely a step forward. My opinion. Need to listen more but I'm happy. I expected the worst, really.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 21 October 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

After a few listens I've decided I'm not really happy with this. It's very nice and pleasant and has some really great moments, but overall it just feels very... mild-mannered. A lot of it sounds exactly like Ulrich Schnauss, which isn't what I was looking for from BoC.

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 22 October 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

the resemblance to ulrich schnauss is only on the surface. if you listen to the different layers you can hear that the sometimes seemingly conventional tunes have a subtle nostalgic bitter-sweet undertone ulrich schnauss mostly bland music doesn't have. there is something magic about the boards sound and they have refined it on the new one so that it is even more palpable than before.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 22 October 2005 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anyone heard Macquarie Ridge from the Japanese version of TCH? I can't believe BOC didn't include it on any of the other releases!

― Lardvarder, Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes - Macquarie Ridge is great, like an improved zoetrope...

― mattwp, Monday, 31 October 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that available anywhere else? Download, maybe?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Album trend for indie-dance:

1st album: Groundbreaking yet highly popular debut that slowly but surely gains massive status.

2nd album: Weird, proggy, musically lush, experimental but alienates a lot of their original audience.

3rd album: Back to basics, a general chilling-out of the sound, but those who expected another giant sonic leap forward are disappointed at it's simplicity.

I cite: Daft Punk, Air, Boards of Canada off the top of my head.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Chemical Brothers?

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

actually... that's a crap suggestion, ignore.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Charlie find my review on Stylus - I analogued BoC with Sigur Ros. Same career-path.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

fandango, as far as i know, i'd say it's true. To some extent I'd say the Prodigy did it too, although in a slightly different way.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Sigur Ros have never been indie-dance though.

The Chemical Brothers.. I guess they brought it on themselves with the vocalists they choose, but maybe they don't qualify for that tag either. At least not when they started.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Nick, I'll be sure to read it when I actually get time to listen to the album properly. I can't believe I've been so slack but for fear of hearing a fake I thought I'd wait until I have a little money to go out and buy it rather than download it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

actually, i just read it anyway - really good review mate! makes me really wanna hear the album now!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I just got this album!

― Dan (IT'S AWESOME) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

too bad nobody cares about it anymore

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

just got it today and haven't listened to it yet. so that's at least two people who still care nyah

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i wasn't criticizing, i like the album. but it's just that boards of canada suffer from the same disease as the strokes. everyone freaks out when they release something new... for about a month.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

People freaked out about the Strokes last album?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I listened to this again the other day. "Dayvan Cowboy" is pretty awesome. Some lovely twinkly synths too.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

hey, i totally forgot to get this album....
i guess i'll check it out now.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Grea great album, but it's true that I rarely feel compelled to put it on. It seems like it requires a very specific setting, e.g. sunset on the porch of a countryhouse in Maine.

― Baaderonixx ménage ses forces dans l'attente du Grand Soir (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link

it's still great but slightly yes than about a month ago. fading slowly away into the silence/past. i wonder if that has to do with the music ageing process they apply.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link

slightly less, what a typo!

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i bought. i listened. i was underwhelmed. i listened again. i was still underwhelmed.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

okay so, i bought this after holding off from downlaoding

I'm sorry, but this is no fucking good for me. it's really like listening to the most watered down version of the boards. reading the pitchfork reviews didn't help. it's like a cross between the first savath and savalas album and moon safari. i don't listen to boards as a chilout band but that's what they've become

why are the noughties so much about subtlety?

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link

get with Marcia Blaine School for Girls, people, it's where it's at, and been at, for you Boardz-hedz

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link

only thing wrong w/ this record are the guitars -- you would think that they could do something more interesting with their sound instead of the compressed-tighter-than-a-crab's-ass sound that stinks up just about every recording these days. otherwise, it's a standard BoC record, which means it's a pretty fine thing to have.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 5 December 2005 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link

For me the problem is all about the drum loops - they sound tired and uninteresting .. just sounds like a lame set of presets with little added, then again i cant compare as this was the first album of theirs i got to hear.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

When i bought the album on i was hoping i had downloaded the fakes, then i heard the crappy guitar sound...

― a Side-walkin' Street Wheeler (aaron ef.), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i've been listening to this at 45 pitched down to -8, which actually kind of works

― Tate (Tate), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Every now and then I wonder if ILM posters are deaf and/or soulless.

― Dan (heh) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

pardon?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

It's just that this album, like their previous two, is really, really, really great, soul-stirring music, only now people seem to be falling head over heels to distance themselves from it as if BoC have failed some obscure coolness test completely unrelated (or tangentially related at best) to the music they put out.

― Dan (ILM Pattern Of Behavior) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit sonny. i can't hear a thing.

and why does the very centre of my being feel so ... empty ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link

pwned

― Dan (FISHED IN) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

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