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Three and a bit years on from the Da Vinci Code symbolism of ‘Geogaddi’ and a whole ‘makes-you-feel-your-age’ seven since ‘Music Has the Right to Children’, the now official siblings (Brothers of Canada anyone?) are back with what they deem their most complete and candid album to date. Wrapped in a brazenly turquoise cover that suggests we’re gonna be glancing over our shoulder throughout (and that looks miraculously close to the “Music Has The Right” Sleeve), ‘Campfire Headphase’ is a surprisingly upfront affair; what you see appears to be what you get, and whilst this initially seems (whisper it please!), well, boring, the old charm soon starts to seep through. What with the level of anticipation surrounding the Scot duo reaching McFly dribbling levels of hysteria (you know who you are), it would have been easy for BOC to submit a box-ticking LP of greatest hits material; a route they choose to shun. Opening with a queasy kaleidoscope of sun-warped ambience (‘Into The Rainbow Vein’), things kick off properly with ‘Chromakey Dreamcoat', a textbook name if we’ve ever heard one. Constructed around a precarious acoustic guitar part, Boards then do what they do best; layer it up with echo-fed beats, wispy bits and all manner of mermaid atmospherics, resulting in a sound that is wholly their own yet marinated with some plucked string reticence. Ah, this’ll be the acoustic album then? Well kind of; with the thrumming tones popping up again straight away on ‘Satellite Anthem Icarus’, hoisted clear of the folktronica quagmire by some very Schnauss-like sunsets and the supine ‘Peacock Tail’ with its dawn-chorus samples. Elsewhere, ‘Dayvan Cowboy’ is a sprawling Kevin Shields-indebted (or, erm, some might say Zero 7 indebted...eek) grandstander that ignites your cochlea through 1000 drums, ‘Oscar See Through Red Eye’ is the closest fly-by of Geogaddi’s lascivious intent, whilst ‘Slow This Bird Down’ defies any lexical parameters. Give |
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Given that we’d have all bought it anyway, Boards of Canada have once again proved why their faded Super8 sound has defined a generation’s record collection. Not a great album by any means but....the Boards are back in town. |
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lol? |
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Holes to pick "Three and a bit years on from the Da Vinci Code symbolism... " Oh god, shut up already. " ‘makes-you-feel-your-age’" more like 'vomits-into - sock - on - reading - such - a - hamfisted - phrase' "‘Slow This Bird Down’ defies any lexical parameters." Seriously, what? "wispy bits " - Oh yes, this'll be their Wisp inspired album, the cultural revision begins here. "Elsewhere, ‘Dayvan Cowboy’ is a sprawling Kevin Shields-indebted" Indebted... because there's a treated guitar in it and Kevin Shields invented the treated guitar sound. Once, one hundred years ago, someone managed to wedge the names My Bloody Valentine and BOC into the same conversation. Since then, they've been welded together, even though there's no relation between the two bands whatsoever. However, seeing as there's guitar on this album... ergo, it's My Bloody Valentine influenced. No one else ever did anything remotely wacky with a guitar... apart from My Bloody Valentine. EVER. It begins and ends... with My Bloody Valentine. And now BOC. "Boards of Canada have once again proved why their faded Super8 sound has defined a generation’s record collection." - What? How does that work? |
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album reviews need to be shortened to - It kicks ass, or it doesn't kick ass. |
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brazenly turquoise |
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I don't get it. Do they say it's good or not ?? |
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I think the point of the article is to say something like "it sounds like boc". |
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if this is a TCH review i dont want to read it. thanks for not including any info regarding that. |
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boc sucks ass. they sold out and prolly gonna make Nike commercials and theme music for The Apprentice. |
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i have been reading boomkat reviews for a while and you can kind of tell when they dont like something.....i dont think they like TCH (OMG taht is an anagram of THC like teh drug LOL) |
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I think I hate this album before I've even heard it. I haven't read the review. Too many words :( |
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Get's boring dosen't it? |
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are we supposed to review the review? |
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you are supposed to start up a familly. |
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yes. but its abit late now cos its been talked about heaps from when it was leaked.. |
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as in, right now? that's going to be a problem, i'm afraid. i'm much too busy doing the ratrace as it is. i've got other stuff to do. like posting here... apparently |
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The boards are back in town and they are fighting? i dont get it. |
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that review is written on THC |
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Any TCH virgins out there ? I can't wait till tomorrow, the only thing I heard from it was the Oscar See Through Red Eye single that I got from Bleep.com but apart from that I have no idea what to expect. I'm like a little kid on Christmas eve with excitement..... |
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preview Chromakey Dreamcoat too |
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Boomkat don't really have reviews. It's more of a catalogue description. They're not going to say: "We've just got 80,000 of these new BOC albums in stock, and guess what, guys? It's fucking awful! Are we total mugs or what?" |
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except that it's really beautiful. |
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so the reveiws all over the places, so both people who like and dislike previous boc will give them money |
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i see. yes, that's another way of spending your life. supposedly. |
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I haven't even heard it yet. I was just making the point that their descriptions of records aren't going to be 100% objective, because they're an online record shop. |
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you're missing the point. it's really beautiful :) |
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Tolstoyed, I don't know how you ever got to be a moderator on here, because there's nothing objective about the way you contribute to the forum. You're starting to sound whiny. |
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i didn't ask for it, and it's not like i care really. what was your contribution to it? "it's beautiful"? |
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Maybe you want to hand over you moderator status to someone else who's got a more constructive attitude. There are a lot of users on here who seem more reasonable than you. Phobia, take note. |
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Careful, last time Core moaned about me calling someone a "cunt" BAM! I woke up and my mod nob had been chopped off. She has Rasputin like influence. |
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who ever wants it, can have it. i too think there are other, more suitable members for that. however, i can't see what this has got to do with boc :) |
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this is a great review. honest and to the point. now the pitchfork review for dayvan cowboy, THAT sucked ass: Boards of Canada: "Dayvan Cowboy" genre: downtempo There are two types of BOC songs: the slo-mo head-nodder and the sublime, formless glint. The former works best as a glazed come-down come-on, all patient rhythmic repletion and now-you-see-it melody; the latter is a pious preacher's soundtrack to his own death. "Dayvan Cowboy" is that unique BOC broad stroke that tackles both archetypes within its five-minute span-- Cliff's Notes to the self-mythologizing giants' recondite, new-age appeal. Gazing at their polymer moon-shoes, the duo initiates this space oddity in full-on haze mode with a Fenneszian daydream of trickling distortion and ambient echo. And just at the point of bore, a bluesy guitar strum heralds part two of this cryptic headphase. The exacting beat announces itself with a rare brashness (relatively speaking-- still more trip than hip) as it's steered by the newest gadget in the BOC treasure trove of infinite calm: an undertow string arrangement. Albeit more economical and bipolar than usual, "Dayvan Cowboy" is BOC in a bottle-- a pitter-patter of sanitized, well-packaged escapism from building entropy. |
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tolstoyed is a good mod core, take note |
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keep on topic or else i'll have to close this thread :D thank you. |
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you are not gonna close this thread |
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'the constants are changing' i love this track. but like many of my favorite BOC tracks, it's too short. |
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