― yassy, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― yassy, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
It's amazing how fast news speads on the net !
[Angry Robot blog, and Rate Your Music etc]
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Hopefully it's better than Geogaddi.
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
okay, fuck it, i'm excited.
― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
i also think dan is right about the cover.
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― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― hector (hector), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah the person is what reminded me of the first album's cover. the non-existent faces and clothes.
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Zazas Zazas Nasatanada Katzenellenbogen by the Sea (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Robinson
― Robinson (Robinson), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zazas Zazas Nasatanada Katzenellenbogen by the Sea (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― natedey (ndeyoung), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Therefore in 2005....Chems release a [crap] album ..would BoC follow similar artwork, as if !
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, it makes me think ofhttp://www.8bitclassics.com/images/images_big/atari-logo.jpg,even though there's no real similarity...
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Are they even still a group?
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
As hinted in my intro, I suspect not, but like Orbital, they'll always be brothers, so who knows.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
i had forgotten TCH was released almost 10 years ago already -- it feels so recent
― crimson hexagon sonned (clouds), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
Boards of Canada & Ctrl All Del – The Phasefire Camphead
The remixes are horrid.
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
wait a minute this is their best album
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
lol no
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 09:54 (five years ago) link
Yes it is
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
It's definitely in the top 5
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
well... it is
― riposte malone (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
this and the debut are good, geogaddi is less good but people say it's their best to seem learned, tomorrow's harvest was a dirge, idk maybe the eps are ok, fin
― imago, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
Call me learned but Geogaddi = MHTRTC > Tomorrow's Harvest >>> Campfire Headphase
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
Granted I'd say MHTRTC is more consistently enjoyable than Geogaddi which is a rough and bumpy ride and has a few laggy moments but still works nicely as a record and a crystallisation of their... I wanna say 'ethos' or something
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
The production is exceptional but it's alcan be a little too redolant of knitted hat backpacker beats or something for comfort.
I always feel like this is the blueprint for Satellite Anthem Icarus - https://youtu.be/RS0wzDMfzOQ
― The First (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
bzztIABPOITC > Geogaddi = Hi Scores = Twosim > MHTRTC >> Tomorrow's Harvest > Campfire
xxxp HA - so close!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
I'm not accusing Joni Mitchell of being a knitted hat hippy btw, even if that may literally be true.
― The First (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
In a Beautiful Place is perfect as far as I'm concerned. A perfect EP
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
Campfire Headphase indeed strays into the kind of tame chillout / trip-hoppy kind of music that was popular about 5 or 6 years before it came out. I do like '84 Pontiac Dream though.
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
this might be equal to the orighttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9WyWzbcS0
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
imago otm here. kinda comforting to see dog latin continue his aversion. a steady rock in a world of chaos.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
every few years I go back to In A Beautiful Place cause someone I respect touts it, and every few years I find it dull, monotonous.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
yeah i recently discovered that Mira Calix version and it's really nice
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Hear, hear.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
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― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
xp :)
please don't make me go listen again you assholes
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
You gotta be in the mood, maaan.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
I know I felt slightly underwhelmed by Kid For Today first time I heard it - it's kind of repetitive compared to stuff on MHTRTC, but it's a really nice sustained wintry vibe and, as it's BoC, there are lots of subtle little details floating in and out the mix
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
Is this the apex of BoC fan art? Taking a 5 note, 2 sec snippet of flash audio from their old website and making a whole tribute style track from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzdsrbRFbOg
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
Campfire Headphase gave us Dayvan Cowboy, which is their best album track imho. They hit higher peaks on their EPs, however.
― octobeard, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Dayvan is all-time. I think BoC is overall better at individual tracks than at entire albums.
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
Satellite Anthem Icarus tho
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
ignoring the intro, that run of four tracks is their pinnacle imo
― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
and it isn't especially close. like, chromakey dreamcoat's last minute, all of peacock tail I mean
― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
the intro is dope! that was the first sound of BOC i ever heard- my fondness for this album probably comes down to that. i didn't have any expectations or concerns about them using acoustic guitars
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
there's a lot of electro-rockism in this album's lower status tbh
― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
Obviously. Guitars! They’ve sold out to become Beth Orton’s backing band!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
I'm happy to be ILX's designated "I like BoC when they put the guitars in" opinionaut
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
I tried this again last night. Still nothing. :-(I can't hear any melodies. And it's too clean. Generic. No mystery deep time moments. I like how their stuff up to and including MHTRTC had a layer of moss on it. This is just my problem, though. I barely listened to anything these days that doesn't sound foggy and covered in moss or rust.
― brimstead, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
Shame. What it lacks in occult dread, it makes up with pastoral epiphanies. This is the perfect music I’d listen to in a beautiful place out in the country
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 December 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Satellite Anthem Icarus is like a masterclass in counterpoint & arrangement
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
Tomorrow’s Harvest OTOH I’ve never gotten close to get into
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 15 December 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link
Felt like a conscious 180 degree turn after all the criticism they got for Campfire
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
yeah I like Tomorrow's Harvest for what it is: a sustained moodpiece or soundtrack
― frame casual (dog latin), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
If there was a film to go with it, itd make much more sense.
I'm listening to the opening run of TCH now and yeah this is just stellar stuff
― imago, Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link