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Personally I thought this was one of the best BOC-reviews I have ever read (taken from the magazine HUMO, this is a rough translation by me). One of those rare reviews that really gets you interested in an album, and actually gives you somewhat of an image in your mind of what it might sound like... this was the review that made me want to buy MHTRTC... and now it's probably time to also get geogaddi :-D -- The dubut-album from Boards Of Canada, “Music Has The Right To Children”, was a record that could not be put into any category. A dreamy ‘future classic’ with the same impact as a small earthquake, and also one of those rare electronica-releases that seem to exist outside of the time. Anyone that listens to BOC-albums alot and lets their music drip through to deep in their subconscious, will find that their tracks suddenly start appearing in their thoughts at the most unexpected moments. They make small cracks in the wallpaper of our everyday reality. Showing you a glimpse of a parallel world, a world that reminds you of old, in blue-ish faded colours, nature-documentaries about misty Canadian forests. Worlds that remind you of dream-landscapes from your youth where time stood still. BOC is able to faultless capture that small feeling of panic, that creeps up on you when you are making early-evening-walks through a beautiful, but eerie and quiet forest. Or the hesitation that you feel when you walk at night into a deserted hospital-corridor, bathing in cold bright light. Think of the movie ‘The Others’ in it’s nostalgic colours and believe us: in years time your grandchildren will not come to steal “Is This Is” or “Souljacker” from your cd-collection, but they will take “Music Has The Right To Children” It would be too optimistic to expect that a new BOC-album, four years later, would have exactly the same impact. In addition “Geogaddi” simply sounds like -surprise!- the sequel to “Music Has...”. Uncomplicated crunchy beats, misty synths that suddenly turn up and quietly dissapear a little bit later, |
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That the end? Pretty good depiction.. |
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What the... everything looked OK in the preview. I don't know why in the actual post half was cut off :-( Hope this works: It would be too optimistic to expect that a new BOC-album, four years later, would have exactly the same impact. In addition “Geogaddi” simply sounds like -surprise!- the sequel to “Music Has...”. Uncomplicated crunchy beats, misty synths that suddenly turn up and quietly dissapear a little bit later, and almost childishly simple melodies are still the main ingredients. The intro to the excellent “Music Is Math” appears to have been rescued from a tape with Bach-compositions that has been laying out in the sun for too long: rather wobbly, but also breathtakingly beautiful. In “Alpha and Omega”, field recordings of exotic flutes and tablas lead the way to a somewhat clean, but also somewhat amazing Jean-Michel Jarre-synth-melody. And personally, we wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that for the beautiful soundbite “Over the Horizon Radar”, the scottish duo had taped the atmospheric noise of actual solar winds. Even more so than before, on “Geogaddi” shows us BOC from their most sinister side: a haunting percussion-loop dominates “Gyroscope’. From everywhere voices seem to appear - a vague azian children’s choir, the voice-over from a documentary about undersea-volcanos, a little boy saying random numbers - that are slowed down, sped up or wrapped in bubblewrap until every last little bit of meaning has dissapeared from the words, and only a certain “mood” remains. If we would ever ban ourselves to a deserted tropical island, there will no doubt be a cd from Boards Of Canada in our luggage. If only to remind us when we are sitting under those waving palmtrees and cloudless picturepostcard-skies, what ‘uneasines’ was again and -especially- how beautiful it can sound sometimes. |
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THE END! yeah, that's better |
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get Geogaddi man... it's fantastic!! It's better then MHTRTC in a lot of ways, maybe not overall, but it's definitely close to it anyways!! |
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i cant decide which is better theyre both so good. i'll tell you the only song by them i dont like is iabpoitc. that song kind of sucks. the vocals ruin the song. the vocals are not even synchronized with the music and they just put me off. "in a religious community"? what the hell. i just cant stand that song. the first part is great until the vocals come in. i dont know why they annoy me so much but they do. |
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yeah, both are amazing... I can't pick a better one either, they're just too close... I will say that recently I've been feeling Geogaddi more... |
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is it just me but geogaddi seems to take forever to listen to even though in reality its not as long as a lot of other cds. the 60 mins feels much longer for some reason. i think might have something to do with all of those 23 tracks. |
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yeah, I kinda think so to... but the music is so good, that it's a pleasant time listening... :) |
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mhtrtc has almost as many songs but seems faster somehow even though i think mhtrtc is even longer minutewise. |
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I dunno, I think Geogaddi flows very nicely... I dunno, if I'm really into it it just goes by so fast... it can seem longer because of the number of tracks, but also, because the tracks are shorter then the ones on MHTRTC, I think it goes quicker because of that... shrug, I dunno... :) |
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yeah, it does flow great. its flows better than mhtrtc thats for sure. |
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Well eventually I'll want to buy geogaddi too ofcourse... but I feel somehow like I haven't fully grasped MHTRTC yet. I mean I like it ALOT, but i'm still waiting for the moment when it'll really really really grab me and i will hear the magic that i suspect is in there. I think I just need to spend more time with it before i start listening to geogaddi. Don't want to rush things. But it's funny that I only feel this way about BOC though. With other artists I just want it all as fast as possible ;-) But i have a feeling that BOC requires more patience and that the album will eventually reward all the time i put into it now. So when I was in the recordstore today I didn't buy geogaddi... instead i bought four CD's by squarepusher! :-P That was a bit crazy perhaps, but I really LOVED hard normal daddy. The guy behind the counter had to laugh though ;-) I'm quite happy now, only i feel that perhaps the my red hot car EP was a waste of money. The (girl) version is almost identical, and the two obelisk-songs don't seem very special |
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. -- David Lodge, "The British Museum is Falling Down" |
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