boards of canada - the campfire headphase

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geeze, that title! could boards of canada BE any more boards of canada. man.

http://www.warprecords.com/boc/campfire.jpg

anticipate here!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

drool.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

aye.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Looks great! It has more 'past' in the cover then before (or I'm the only one getting a real seventies feel from this cover).

― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

i can hear the record just by looking at the cover. marvelous!

― biz, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

like the typeface, but not the cover image or title at all

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

anyone going to the listening party tonight in nyc?

― yassy, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah, looks like the cover has some nice ephemeral emulsion. throwback to 'music has the right...' coloring tho?

― yassy, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I see there are some other folks on the Warp email list ;-)

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 (twenty years ago)

oooh.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

when's the release date?

― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

i guess you've got images turned off, banjo: it's 17 october. and its a lousy title, btw.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

It's been a while for them, hasn't it?

Hopefully it's better than Geogaddi.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

yes, hopefully

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that cover image an enlarged and color-saturated excerpt of the Music Has A Right To Children cover image.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Looks good. I don't even mind the title.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I like the title! CAMPFIRE HEADPHASE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Same release date/week as new albums from Animal Collective and Depeche Mode.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

i like the title too, but you've got to admit it sounds like something the flaming lips or polysphonic spree would come up with. uber-twee.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

it's crunchy twee!

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

i am trying not to get too excited.

okay, fuck it, i'm excited.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

some good shit still coming out this year!

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

me too!

i also think dan is right about the cover.

xpost

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Yippeee!

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

dan is wrong. the person in the new album cover is standing in front of the ocean. the people on MHTRTC are in front of the mountains. otherwise, there is a striking resemblance ... even down to the hairstyle.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

(i think maybe dan wasn't making an entirely serious suggestion .. even so i had to go check)

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

i think it's pretty clear after geogaddi that they're happy to get mileage ripping themselves off.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

hurray!

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 (twenty years ago)

maybe the photos are part of a set. the first one was the mountain trip and this one is the ocean trip. boc are, of course, the tourist guides.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

liking the font!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nationmaster.com/wikimir/images/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/225px-Steely_Dan-Countdown_to_Ecstacy.jpg

― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

they're happy to get mileage ripping themselves off

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 (twenty years ago)

hey, i'm not complaining! i don't think you can argue that their self-awareness reading is off the chart though.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

looks like for the first time this year I'm actually gonna buy a cd of material that was recorded this century!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

you can fault other artists for sounding like boards, but you can't fault boards for being boards. boards.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Verily, it's been an age since I trod the boards. But the fun I had. The fun.

Robinson

― Robinson (Robinson), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm brutally excited for this, my fingers are going in my ears as soon as anybody tries to criticise.

― Zazas Zazas Nasatanada Katzenellenbogen by the Sea (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I can't wait!

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I agree with stevem though.

typeface: good
title: meh
image: they already did that. which wouldn't be as big a deal if geogaddi wasn't totally different, but to go back and retread now... meh.
music: please make just one track as awesome as "dawn chorus" thx!

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I was expecting the cover to look a lot like Push the Button!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

they should remix animal collective

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

the cover is a lot better than push the button's but I think it is bad

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I want this album to be a 35 minute long reinterpretation of "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" followed by 25 minutes of happy hardcore.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

i like it, good cover good title.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

xspost, that was a little joke about how much Geogaddi looked like Come With Us.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

eh, someone likes the album's font? it reminds me of the 'futuristic' fonts from geek-tastic shit like robotech and risk 2210.

― natedey (ndeyoung), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

why would it look like "push the button"?

xpost

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

eh, someone likes the album's font? it reminds me of the 'futuristic' fonts from geek-tastic shit like robotech and risk 2210.

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 (twenty years ago)

The cover also reminds me of a collaboration between Jandek and the Orb.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Because in early 2002 both BoC and Chemical Brothers released albums with ORANGE artwork.

Therefore in 2005....Chems release a [crap] album ..would BoC follow similar artwork, as if !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

i like the font. it reminds me of something from my past. a zx spectrum game, probably. very boards of canada, that: a half-misted memory of some long-lost pleasure. or was it pain?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I disagree a bit about the font. It's got a Battlestar Galactica retro 70s sci-fi-ness about it. I understand the critique but I think it's saying something slightly different.

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 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, I like the font...not a patch on the (IIRC) Bauhaus on MHTRTC, but it has a nice late-70's/early-80's look to it.

Also, it makes me think of
http://www.8bitclassics.com/images/images_big/atari-logo.jpg,
even though there's no real similarity...

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

ah, i was thinking of Money Mark's "Push the Button" !

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Exciting. If their recent remixes (cloudDEAD, Boom Bip, Beck) are any indication, this will be awesome. Boop Bip remix was incredible.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

i think the cover looks a lot different than the previous two. the color especially is different. it's a different mood entirely....

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.urban-astronaut.com/images/nasa-hoodsweat.gif

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap. Now that I get a look at this on a better monitor, HIS SIDEBURNS ARE EATING HIS FACE AAAAAA

Awesome color scheme, though. I like the sort-of rotten, aged, almost sepia look.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

xxpost
I don't see how anyone can deny that it really obviously references and in fact looks like a detail from the Music has the Right to Children cover!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Some people may have their monitors calibrated strangely or they are just plain colorblind.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

i think the cover looks a lot different than the previous two. the color especially is different. it's a different mood entirely....

Seriously, how could anyone find any similarities between two green-tinged pictures of out-of-focus human figures standing in front of an indistinct nature scene?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

it's META-RETRO!!! AAIAIIEIEIEIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Definitely looks like a version of the Music has the Right... cover.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

And man oh man oh man oh man - i can't wait to hear this!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Album Tracks: according to Pitchfork

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/10.shtml

01 Into the Rainbow Vein
02 Chromakey Dreamcoat
03 Satellite Anthem Icarus
04 Peacock Tail
05 Dayvan Cowboy
06 A Moment of Clarity
07 '84 Pontiac Dream
08 Sherbert Head
09 Oscar See Through Red Eye
10 Ataronchronon
11 Hey Saturday Sun
12 Constants Are Changing
13 Slow This Bird Down
14 Tears From the Compound Eye
15 Farewell Fire

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know where the listening party is being held? I emailed them but I didn't get a reply... :(

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

listen people, damnit, i think it looks different!! and im standing by that!

i mean, it's obviously a BOC cover, but it doesnt seem like a copy of Music has the Right. on my screen it seems a lot more blue. in any case, i just get a different feel. nothing worth arguing about of course.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

xxpost You can't get more BoC than those titles! Can't wait for this.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

11 Hey Saturday Sun

Hmmmm.

http://www.american-buddha.com/anickdrakeabol2_small.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

hey wait do we even know that's actually the cover and not just promo/poster art?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

i assume the actual cover won't have the release date printed on it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

and will there be any white border, if that is indeed the cover art? i've been assuming there will be, but now i think maybe no.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

the border was really what differentiated the new cover from the music has the right one to me, very similar art but very diff't design approach.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

i take it the border is to make it look like a polaroid or something? it also makes it not square so i guess thatt's the cover but the border's not part of it.

where was that thread with the fake boards of canada song titles? i can't find it but it's one of my favourite threads ever.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

it's probably not even the cover art you dicks!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

haha i was just thinking of the fake tracklist jed. i'm not sure where it is either though. xp

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

cutty is right, of course.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

ok, not as funny as i remember it being

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

math in teh nature videoe
colored blocks
cosine tram
paralogic dusk
birdwatching axioms
dodecathedral
measuring the adirondacks

(xpost i like mark p's a few posts below that)

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

http://real1.phononet.de/cover/small/524/805/r91vrdfw.j31

http://www.warprecords.com/boc/campfire.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

WOW THOSE COVERS LOOK ALIKE OMG

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

If it is the actualy album art.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

if it is the cover i'd like it more if Geogaddi's had been a variation on the same theme too.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

where is the listening party?

― jane (jane), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

fahking around on da synthasiza #12

I want this to exist! IDM = Illiterate Dance Music

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I read that song title, I imagine it being said by, like, Holger Czukay or somebody.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

WHERE IS THE FOOKIN LISTENING PARTY?

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Those look nothing alike. The top image is clearly 300 X 267 pixels while the new one is 454 X 510 pixels!! That's 151440 more innit?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

True. The new album will be released on a cd that is 7" in diameter - requiring a package that is over 50% larger.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

One of the tracks leaked. Not sure which though. Buit its here:

http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=38COJY4L24XV11ZLSXZ3RKWAZV

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

hari where did you get that?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

It's a secret.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

This sort of sounds like a fake... then again I remember that whole deal with the "fake" Autechre album that leaked, which actually ended up being the real thing...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

I heard the entire album leaked, they I don't have anything concrete to substantiate that.

― Smetric, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I will go out on a limb and say it's not fake. The drum loop is underprogrammed, but the synth textures are pretty fully realized.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like them. Even if it is a fake - it's quite good!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

if it's not them, it's a good imitation.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

xpost

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't have anymore songs though :(

This does sound like the real thing. But the way it cuts out at the end makes me think it might be a demo or something.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and the Chemicals comparison (I'd see these next to each other at the various record stores at the time of their release)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005U1YO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005Y0Q4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

not identical obviously (and not some kind of "rip-off") but just walking by them in the store could lead one to think they were the same.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

The drums on that leaked track are v Mr Scruff/Viberty. I keep thinking back to Gareth's complain about BOC's drums. Sometimes I loved the beats but other times he had a point.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

According to one of the main BoC fansites, this is the cover art: [image removed! it was goatse! not spencer's fault! - mod]

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

That also appears on Pitchfork.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Goatse, we meet again....

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone heard the background music on the music70 website? I honestly don't know if it's something from MHTRTC or not.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

the drums sound thin on that track.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

(thanks MODS!)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Let's see if Pitchfork does it to us too!
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/cover-boardsofcanada.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Also, non-goatse website: http://www.boardsofcanada.com/ seems to have samples from the um, what is it, Telefire Campspace Octogon Moon?

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

(thanks Mark! for modding)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

campfire headphase is a googlewhack! not for long i imagine ....

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/ people! Trippy, duuuude!

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait old stuff.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

no problem spencer!

boc's official site hasn't been updated in three years. but man, how ridiculously talented is james tindall.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know where to get that "Trails" track from the site?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm not so big on that leaked track. It seems to run out of ideas after the first two minutes and just plods along for the final three.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

i wouldnt be at all surprised if it turned out to be a Luke Vibert track

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

yeah it sounds like him "remixing" BoC.
my tinny computer speakers are not good for assessing drum tracks.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Needs kerning.

― Typographer Joe, Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Nerds keening.

― jerginsk (jergins), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

the yellow in the new one's cover art is fucking piss ugly and ruins an otherwise decent cover

BOC 'N' ROLL

― amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

I think the faded yellow is kind of fitting.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

they're "taking the piss" and putting it on their cover? you're right, it does fit.

― amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

ha ha!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

i went to a boards of canada listening party at a gay party with free vodka... weird mix of people, but i got too drunk to pay attention to the music, though it sounded a lot like boards of canada.....

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

YAY WE ALL GOT THE SAME EMAIL TODAY YAY I LOOVE MARKETING

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

this song serves notice on Caribou and Four Tet.

― jerginsk (jergins), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

i don't think it does and i'm not a huge fan of either band.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

hstencil to be precise VIRAL MARKETING

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing

[The timing just after 5pm UK time would have caught the UK finishing work slot, plus the US Eastern time zone would be midday - therefore the perfect timing to create maximum viral marketing.]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

on my screen it seems a lot more blue.

As we all know, there is absolutely no relationship between the colors blue and green.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

this is hardly viral marketing, martian. more like simple word of mouth.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

viral marketing = word of mouth

http://www.vbma.net/mission.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_mouth

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Never bought a BOC record yet... and that cover/title is still a buzz-kill.

Jeez, self-parody ahoy!

The Strokes get dissed for this kind of thing but BOC are on Warp...

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

dude, an email announcement hardly constitutes viral marketing!!

xpost

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

it's only viral marketing if mark p is working for warp or its publicist (cuz he started the thread) or if he found out about the new album when a hot girl at a bar mentioned it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

slocki i am sick of you and your mythical hot idm girls!

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

imagine a room full of 19-year-olds doing jazzercise to confield

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

i am. they all have beards.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

and viruses.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

hey, i'm EATIN here!

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

It's what people DO WITH the email that makes it Viral Marketing:

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases in brand awareness, through viral processes similar to the spread of an epidemic. It is word-of-mouth delivered and enhanced online; it harnesses the network effect of the Internet and can be very useful in reaching a large number of people rapidly.

Viral marketing is sometimes used to describe some sorts of Internet-based stealth marketing campaigns, including the use of web logs, seemingly amateur web sites, and other forms of astroturfing to create word of mouth for a new product or service.

Five years ago before blogs and ILM, Warp would have issued press releases that would have be picked up by convential media.

Warp decided to use the email network to break this news yesterday NOT press releases via a PR firm or a news story on their website, because they knew that Viral Marketing via an email message would create an internet BUZZ. i.e Connecting direct to the fans via email.

FACT: Blogs/ Rate Your Music/ ILM etc all responded FASTER than any conventional/ commercial media outlet on the web yesterday ! This was text book Viral Marketing in action ! RANT OVER

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

ok martian i guess i'll tell everyone in the advertising industry they're using the term wrong!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

fact!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

i imagined dj martian saying that as the "it's a fact!" girl from kids in the hall

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Make sure you include a seventeen page list that enumerates the reasons why they're wrong and sign it "Precious Hugs 4EVA, DJ Martian (XOXOXO)".

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

hey guys, so i just heard about this hot new band called boards of canada. they're really cool. u should chek them out at http://www.boardsofcanada.com - i think they're really awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

phil-two that is not viral marketing, that's being an ironic laggard in marketing adoption terms. Whose next for marketing theory & practice lessons ?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

holy crap you're being annoying.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

FACT!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

what a dick

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

ironic laggard :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

more wikipedia and rateyourmusic.com links, please! i can't get enough!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Phil is a TASTEMAKER!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

omg die spencer die!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

You know it's true! NY is so cool! LA is so cool!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

FACT!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

why do people not like Geogaddi? I have that and Music has the Right...they both seem pretty good. I don't really *know* anything about electronica or IDM or whatever, so maybe I'm missing something.....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

That thing you're missing is called "snobbery".

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I like Geogaddi more than MHTR. My only real problem with BoC in general is that their beats could use a bit more variety at times.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I too think Geogaddi is better.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

me three.

― jmeister (jmeister), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

yeah, lots of people do.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Fact: sleep otmfm aaaaffwewewewewooewew

― amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

imagine a room full of 19-year-olds doing jazzercise to confield
-- s1ocki (slytus...) (webmail), August 11th, 2005 3:39 PM.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

i am. they all have beards.
-- mark p (mark.p****...) (webmail), August 11th, 2005 3:41 PM.

http://www.clipland.com/StillsInt?file=923853987/cliplandc0.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

yay i'm glad other people liked geogaddi!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

i like leslie nielsen!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

i enjoy the naked gun movies!

i never saw the curling movie he made, men with brooms. i was suprised anyone would make a spoof of curling....oh baseketball what hath thou wrought?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

oh canada, our home and native land.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

advance word from the listening party:

-it's a little under an hour long
-for the most part, it's short-long-short-long as is the usual
-many of the long tracks are based around guitar
-the most immediate of the tracks uses a bass like the one in roygbiv but in a much more powerful way
-it's boc, minus the sinister, plus a lot more head-nodding
-one track uses a straightforward drum kit, another a 4/4 tambourine line
-the synths sounded much more digital, less analog/destroyed, while the beatz were much more natural

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

The listening party was fun, if not subdued......
the record was played twice and it was for sure dope as shit!
It is WAY more hip hop with thunderous low end bass synths on every kick and there is a lot of scrabbly acoustic guitar like the Bibio Fi record, thus perhaps the campfire reference.... The songs have silence in between, meaning they are not all collaged together and it is kind of short......
So imagine the sounds from Andre 3000, the beats from Twoism and the lush crackle of the acoustic guitar and backwards flutes and all that jazz and you are close!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

it's boc, minus the sinister

Oh good!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

It sounds great, and I'm not even a BoC fan. How would you rank it with their other releases?

I really want this to leak.

― Christian, Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

it's boc, minus the sinister

BOO

Hopefully the next album will be red again.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

christian i lifted those reviews from another message board.

boc without the sinister = plaid

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Haha, oops. Do you mind posting the link to where you found it?

― Christian, Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

forum.watmm.com

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

beware. idm saddos abound.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Plaid's a little sinister sounding!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah those steel drums are terrifying!!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

in my soulseek wishlist, this morning:

my folk song recorded by a campfire in the wood which boards of canada may well have never been to but the key factor is that a) there was an acoustic guitar and b) there was a campfire.mp3

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

ooooh - I was kinda hoping that since they'd upped the sinister on Geogaddi that they'd do it again on this one.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah, also more grossly deformed synths recorded at more distortion-inducing levels!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Angry Robot reviews The Campfire Headphase
http://www.angryrobot.net/archives/2005/08/boards_of_canad.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

wow.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Ooooh, should leak soon then!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

MUST HAVE NOW

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

omg dan that was almost exactly what i was just going to post

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

im already embarrassed by how many times i've clicked on this thread.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

roygjizz is more like it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

at approximately 3 minutes into the track, the beat vanishes without warning and a children's choir takes over.

oh god nooooooo

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i don't think he means like the vienna boys choir, oops.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

i'm trying to determine if any of those song descriptions match up with hari's mp3.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

is it october yet?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

now?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

how about now?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

....now!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

FALSE ALARM

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

It's out on soulseek!

― Gerard (Gerard), Saturday, 13 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

fake?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 13 August 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Can't tell yet, as we're all probably queued up in the same line.

― Gerard (Gerard), Saturday, 13 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 13 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

fake.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 13 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, thats about as fake as it gets, unfortunately...

― Gerard (Gerard), Saturday, 13 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Fake and a half.

― Citypark, Saturday, 13 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

the review by angryrobot is bullshit. fake.

― dan godlike, Saturday, 13 August 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

vienna or not, there has never been a good use of a children's choir. it's impossible.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 13 August 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

so hari did you make that track you YSIed up there?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 13 August 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I knew that review was bogus the second I laid eyes on it!

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 August 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

I will never doubt the fanaticism of BoC fans again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 August 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

I havent heard it but Im not expecting anything uh.. unexpected?

if its a rehash of their previous stuff, Im guessing it will be a bit boring. you can only rework the same stuff so many times.

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

i don't think bands have to change all the time but if your sonic pallette is as limited as BOC's surely is there's only so much you can do with it.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

couldn't disagree more. how come no one ever says stuff like that about folk artists and acoustic guitars?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

they don't?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

actually maybe they don't. it must be because they abolutely hate electronic music & are biased against it. or maybe they do just find BOC fairly limited.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, i started the anticipation thread for Geogaddi, + it never got this level of attention. Campfire Headphase may turn out to be the most faked pre-release ever; if I can summon up enough self-discipline for one of my very favourite acts I'll wait until the official release

― stevo (stevo), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

couldn't disagree more. how come no one ever says stuff like that about folk artists and acoustic guitars?
-- mark p

GUITARS, you say? whats a guitar?

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't "Human After All" pretty faked out? This is the year of the highly anticipated/fake leaked albums! say what?

― dj Mattiepoo, Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

mattiepoo i believe that was more a case of people not wanting to believe the leak was real ie "daft punk can't possibly make an album this bad"

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

human after all was a total fake, i can't believe everybody fell for that!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 August 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm too much of a bum to look through this whole thread...is there samples of this anywhere?

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Monday, 15 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

no i don't think so. 222 messages discussing the cover and the definition of viral marketing. check back in a few weeks.

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 15 August 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Q.why..:.:::...::...:::.:..marcus

― acid memories, Monday, 15 August 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

there has never been a good use of a children's choir. it's impossible.

Gavin Bryar's "The Sinking of the Titanic" would seem to disagree with you, as would the resultant Aphex Twin remixes.

― Matt Tuozzo (TheChisa), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

as would heartbroken children around the world, you thoughtless wretch.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

bump

I need constant updates and bickering over details of the cover!

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

i think someone should point out that BOC is really Blue Oyster Cult, not Boards of Canada. You should ask Buck Dharma for permission to sample that acronym.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

i think this whole operation is foobar. i hate all the bullshit, the fakes, the dumbass banter. we are all anticipating the release of the campfire headphase, but you don't have to be a dick about it. that's not how mike or marcus would have wanted it. get a life! you are the ones who are the ball lickers!!!!!!

― jervis, Monday, 15 August 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

coughoinkcough

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

coughoinkcough

i just listened to it all. and it sucks. cannot be BOC. FAKE.

― johhny number five, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I will be saying "I told you so" to all my friends saying this is fake, just like when Daft Punk leaked. This IS the album, mark my words.

― People Eater, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

having now heard it - a big fat fake

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

This IS the album, mark my words.

I HAVE MARKED YOUR WORDS! THERE'S NO GOING BACK NOW PEOPLE EATER! THIS WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU>>>

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

blue öyster cult is actually böc, boards of canada is boc

― Justin, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

most recent fake confirmed as these boys:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Freescha

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

okay, so how many fakes are floating around now? slsk brings up 3 'moment of clarity's, fr'instance - one at abt 4 megs, on at 7 and one at 18.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

i have the real deal, doesn't sound fake to me at all....ill post some mp3's on my blog a little later

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

2 tracks up + a new goldfrapp song
@ http://circusoffools.blogspot.com/

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

No matter who did these (and I believe they're real), they're really good!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

why are you posting those on your blog, they aren't real.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

100% fake

― a, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Really? the "Pontiac" track is really good!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

SPENCER! IT'S FAKE! I'LL MAKE YOU A BOC RIPOFF ALBUM IF YOU WANT AND IT WILL KICK ASS!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

"pontiac" sounds like amateur Fennesz....two synced, semi-corroding synth loops does not a "really good" track make...an easy approximation, but definetely NOT the real deal

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

xpost haha- PLEASE DO!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

the first one posted, "dreamcoat", gives its fakeness away with the drums, they sound like something off of a demo...both of these tracks mimic the meloncholy, repetitive nature of BOC without the gradual development and sharp attention to sound detail...so unless BOC are completely burned out and beginning to sound like an imitation without a recording budget, someone's having you on

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 18 August 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

been too long since last album, these guys should do much more. looking forward to this.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

they should play live again when this comes out. or is that completely out of the question?

― thomas, Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

ooh that would be neat

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Guys, "teams" leak full albums...not two tracks.

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

uh SAM G, there is a whole album of this shit.

sharp attention to sound detail

OTM.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

For those who were wondering - the 'leaked' version of Campfire Headphase is actually a bunch or tracks by Freescha, Arovane, as well as a few really old alleged-BoC tracks from 'Old Tunes Volume I'. I didn't listen to the whole thing - I got as far as track 2 and realized I had heard it before. Ditto track 3, track 4, etc. I've said it before - anyone who wants to create a fake, go ahead. We should see who can mastermind the best fake.

― Octopede, Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

CROSSES FINGERS!!!!!
someones posted a new one up on Piratebay...hoping this is fuckin REAL!!!! pleaseeee!

http://static.thepiratebay.org/downloadtorrent/3371697.torrent/Boards_Of_Canada_-_Campfire_Headphase_[warp2005]_NO_FAKE_BS_.3371697.TPB.torrent

― Lary Larry, Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

Well, is it a fake?

― van der who (van smack), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Nevermind. It apparently is another bogus dud.

― van der who (van smack), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

WOOOTTTTT thanks larry larry for the link! its the real thing!!!!!!!!!! yayyy not sure what track im listening to i cant figure out how to make the .cue work?? any help? anyways fuckin awesomeeeee somebody who knows how to write, write up a review for this already!!!

― SusieBEEZ, Friday, 19 August 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

― van der who (van smack), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

van, what does this fake consist of?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

I didn't download this torrent. I figured it was another fake. At least that's what a few of the comments left said at that torrent site.

― van der who (van smack), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

NoPezPez27 at 2005-08-19 05:18 GMT:

FUCK YESS! THANKS FOR THIS! Yea the cover scans are fake! but if u test the partial .rar of the audio the music is legit!!! THANKS BRO!

BoC_Fan at 2005-08-19 05:11 GMT:

it says "ARTWORK SCANS INCLUDED"

BoC_Fan at 2005-08-19 05:02 GMT:

it says "ARTWORK SCANS INCLUDED"

BoC_Fan at 2005-08-19 05:01 GMT:

it says "ARTWORK SCANS INCLUDED"

neoneon at 2005-08-19 04:34 GMT:

youre an idiot bocfan, of course the cover scans are fake..because the official album hasnt been released...troll. tell me if its fakr or not after u listen to the album!

BoC_Fan at 2005-08-19 04:14 GMT:

DO NOT BOTHER DOWNLOADING THIS THE COVER SCANS ARE FAKE

BoC_Fan at 2005-08-19 04:13 GMT:

fuck you this is fake

BoC_Fan at 2005-08-19 04:11 GMT:

fuck you this is fake

neoneon at 2005-08-19 03:11 GMT:

i am seeding this and i currently have 20 peers, but for whatever reason this page is not updating and shows no seeds..this is wrong.

neoneon at 2005-08-19 02:42 GMT:

for those who have Pm'ed me YES this is the real deal. Enjoy and purchase the retail copy in BOCtober! :)

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

van, i highly doubt BoC_Fan is your most reliable source whether this is fake or not based on the cover art.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

Hah you're right. Maybe it was just me getting tired of having no luck with this album with the past fakes and all. I dunno, maybe it is real. I'm not going to download it tonight anyway.

― van der who (van smack), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

BOCTOBER!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

i was gonna say

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

(not real, although it seems to be an entertaining mix which contains "goodbye horses")

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

BOC is the easiest band ever to fake.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

or so people seem to think

― fe7 (FE7), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002W4UVG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://www.warprecords.com/boc/campfire.jpg

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

hah.. that shit is funny , i thought it sounded real in the begining , than it turned it to saudi music.. and i started crackin up.. yarrg

― danny b, Saturday, 20 August 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me of camping around a fire listen to boards with a few mates up north a few weeks ago!

― fabkat, Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Arrrrr!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to join in the discussion now.

― sickhead, Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

BOCTOCOPTER

― sickhead, Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

i have it... havnt listened to it yet.

even if it isnt BoC... if it sounds good, ill like it.

i hope it sounds like hell interface.

pleeeeeeeeeese sound like hell interface, and everything before geogaddi.

― bachrodi, Sunday, 21 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I downloaded a shit load of boards of canada fakes so far, a couple full album fakes. I still can't believe loyal boards of canada fans would buy into this obvious mirage. Everyone says they are easy to immitate hmm? in theory yes...abut at the same time its nearly impossible. They have been making music forever and nobody else besides them can create that dinstict sound we should all know so well. Although...a few of the fakes have some pretty good songs,plus i just needed something new to listen to. October is a million light years away.

― SamuraiPizzaCat, Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

pff. two months, thats nothing. otm about the inimitable sound tho

― fe7 (FE7), Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

A month and a half = a million light years?

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I've heard that all of their releases so far have been fake!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I phoned up boards of canada today and they confirmed that no they don't have a copy of the album either.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Dude, how much I would pay to ring Boards up and have IDM themed phone sex.

― Sickhead, Sunday, 21 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I downloaded one of the leaked cds today.
HOW COULD ANY TRUE BOC FAN FALL FOR THAT??
i mean its not bad music. but its not great, or BoC.

― julie and candy, Monday, 22 August 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Humans are strange little creatures. Very weird indeed. Why do we make gods of people like boc? They are just dudes like you and i. Arn't they? Who cares what the album cover looks like?

They do write lovely tunes though. I just cant stop listening to BOC Maxima's 'Whitewater'....very nice. And i love the first track from Acid Memories. Be kind to one another everyone. Love to everyone on this thread xxx

― wordofrecall, Monday, 22 August 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

shut up, hippie.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

'Whitewater' is one of my favourites. I still prefer Boc Maxima to MHTRTC, Twoism AND Geogaddi I think.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 22 August 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Hi! Recently i've downloaded BoC new album posted on easynews. All tracks in 320kbps, tracks 16--27 are entitled as Silence (5 secs long each). Nevertheless, i want to mention i will DO buy original album -- BoC is my most favourite electronic project (band?). I'm just currious. Are these tracks true or just another fake (like predecessors).
Something seems to me suspicious about those tracks. Track #05 is too fast-paced, too "dance-like" and sounds more like from Solvent or Am-Boy to me. Also no.14 with its acoustic-piano caused me a strike of "dejavu" to on hearing (i heard this melody somewhere....). I do not know. No much comments on this upload on news group (alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.electronic).
I include some CRC32 checks for songs:
Boards_of_Canada_-_01_-_Into_the_Rainbow_Vein.mp3 3 950 720 bytes, CRC32=F14A8D1E
Boards_of_Canada_-_02_-_Chromakey_Dreamcoat.mp3 10 790 912 bytes, CRC32=BB410FCB

― defor, Monday, 22 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Too bad...
Poor synths, pathetic drums and misarable tunes..
Definitely, not BOC.
FAKE!...

― selenoid, Monday, 22 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

there is a copy of the album on alt.binaries.mp3s.electronic .... has tracks 16-27 as silence... cant figure it out... is it real? yes, no??

― jbaum, Monday, 22 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Does it sound like Boards of Canada being silent or an imitation?

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

However, i'd like to write that those tracks (if fake) are of a very good quality (in a sense of mimicking BoC sound and feel). It is hard to figure out. Definitely the sound of BoC changes and no one can say that their new album will be of the completely same sound as previous ones. Consequently, i can't easily identify these mp3s as a fake because they can now produce more synth tunes, with less "noise" and "backward playing crypted messages".

Can anyone identify those tracks? Are they just mislabeled and already released by other authors on other discs? Only track no.14 seemed to sound familiar to me, like i heard it somewhere before.

I just want to point out that all these increase my anticipation of the new album. I'm really looking forward how the campfire headphase will sound on the date of release :)

― defor, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

The allegedly fake 'Chromakey Dreamcoat' track linked to upthread really is great. It does sound a bit too rich, full and polished for them but great all the same.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

whoops, used 'rich, full and polished' as 'negatives' there, gasp.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Can someone tell me where I can get hold of BOC Maxima (legally. or otherwise ;) )

― sickhead, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

;)

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

It was said else (http://www.stereogum.com/archives/001704.html) that this fake release is originally by Freescha. Does anybody has their albums to confirm?

― defor, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

fe7 hook me up with some hot BOC Maxima shit

― sickhead, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

pay me cash $$$ ok

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I have it on slsk

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Although BoC usually don't sanction the outside sale of older albums, you can usually find a copy or two for sale (used) from gemm.com. BOC Maxima is pretty cheap right now, but older stuff may cost you a pretty pence.

― octopede, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Security is 360 and paramount. There are NO leaks. All versions of The Campfire Headphase circulating on the net are fakes no matter what someone has told you. Come October 18th there will be plenty.

― Victory, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

I think Geogaddi was a fake. So was In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country EP. Parts of Music Has the Right to Children were fakes: it starts out real, then it gets fake. The Hi Skores EP was real when it was released in 1996, but the reissue was a fake. Twoism is a fake.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

It is Freescha, check out their album 'What's Come Inside of You?'

― Philtr, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Question: weren't there some rumblings from BOC and Warp a few months ago about reissuing the older material? What ever happened there?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone pick up that mp3 from last year titled 'Oranges And Flowers'? It's a good BOC fake (assuming it is fake), if a mediocre track itself. It may have actually been something from 'A Few Old Tunes' though.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

fe7 I'm hearing you. wrapped in brown paper bag behind the dollar bin.. midnight. make sure no-one is with you.

― sickhead, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

the REAL thing just leaked. this very minute.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Hmm

― van der who (van smack), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Does it sound fake?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

um, right. in a world where REAL = FAKE, it has been leaking every minute for a while.

― natedey (ndeyoung), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Cantfire Headfake

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

the real one just leaked on OINK though. bitrate = 320

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

do i get the feeling that people are going to flock to this board (and the oink requests) like vultures now?

― natedey (ndeyoung), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

nope the one on oink is still a fake.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

did anyone see what allmusic has the release date as?

Feb. 5th 1017

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

THERE ARE NO LEAKS OF THE FULL ALBUM. MAYBE JUST LOFI PARTIAL BITS OF TRACKS. ITS SECURE UNTIL THE PROMOS.

― WARP, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

I BUM U WARP

― sickhead, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

there are a few copies floating around on slsk

anyone know if they are legit?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 August 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

prob not?

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 27 August 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

this whole fake thing is fucking hilarious.

― tk (tk), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

"campfire headphase after all"

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Boards of Canada will release a download exclusive single on September 5th ahead of the release of The Campfire Headphase in October. Oscar See Through Red Eye will only be available via Bleep.com/boc from this date.

― van der who (van smack), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

i got it, no lie, and it's amazing. it's sounds like a textbook boc album, but it's still freaking gorgeous.

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

PROOF???

― stu, Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I hate most of you people.

"aw shucks... i hope it isnt as sinister as geogaddi, because when i listened to it by myself i had to cover my ears."

its a great thing that geogaddi sounded so sinister because on the surface... it didnt sound sinister at all.
only once you realize what the alum was all about do you realize that something else may be going on behind the music.something that ni ine else has ever done.(not that i am aware of at least)

did anyone else listen to geogaddi stoned and feel like your head was going to explode?

― ben, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

ITS LEAKED AGAIN

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

the campfire headphase will be amazing.
just like geogaddi was amazing
just like a beautiful place... was amazing
just like music has the right.. was amazing
just like twoism was amazing
just like hi scores was amazing

if you dont like the new album all you have to do is listen to it again.
and then once more
and you may find yourself saying
this is the best music i have ever heard.

― ben, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

and for the person who said they wanted lyrics?
well that is just plain stupid.

― ben, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

There is indeed an enticing series of blank boxes at bleep.com/boc above which it says "DOWNLOAD SINGLE AND NEW ALBUM" ... roll on Sept. 5.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

i love art school students.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

auch mate, ya wanna hiv a wee drink, ma wee mucka..........

is this ever gonna REALLY leak????????

― scotish, Thursday, 1 September 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

O MAN I LUVE THIS FAKE BOC SHIT!!!!!

EVERYTIME!!@@

THIS DUDE PROBABLY STARTED WORKING ON THIS THE DAY GEOGADDI CAME OUT!!!

REMEMBER WHEN THAT SLO-ASS VERSION OF BEWARE DA FRIENDLY STRANGER LEAKED?!!!!!

IT'S BETTER THAN DA REAL VERSION!!

― BROC, Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

BOCan You can!

― REMI, Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I have it, it is a blend of bob dylan and the pet shop boys

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

BROS OF CANADA

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

ive downloaded three fake albums so far on soulseek

as for the soulseek fake that alot of yall think is real: track 1 is really Freescha - Isotopes from Kids Kill the Floor. track 08 "sherbert head" is actually "drive me wide" from freescha's what come inside you PLAYED BACKWARDS! no shit! and "peacock tail" is actually "up the coast" from freescha's kids fill the floor. shall i continue? download freescha's albums if you dont believe me. you will find almost every track from this fake on freescha's albums....

there is another fake that is just a bunch of old boc songs that are kinda hard to find, like whitewater. i think there are boc compilations on soulseek called "some old tunes" or something like that. you will find the tracks from fake two on those comps...

and then there is this other fake that just sucks ass. its just so obviously fake. some really amateurish bullshit. i bet some 8th grader made it and thought he might fool some people..if any of yall think it's boc, yall dont deserve to be fans

― venimdenim, Friday, 2 September 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

This board is full of music writers, so there has to be a few of them who will receive the promo. wink wink :)

― van der who (van smack), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2CS23NZJH8N3334QAP6O2U13MR

― shhhh (heywood), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

now that's more like it, keep it coming :)

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

that guitar riff was used on one of the little movie/games on the website wasnt it?

― zappi (joni), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. i don't know...

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

That sounds real to me. Reminds me a lot of their Boom Bip "Mirror Lake" remix, albeit with twinklier bits. Nice. Not hugely different to previous efforts, but I'm hardly expecting supper-jazz from them.

And if it is fake, at least the forger demonstrates some understanding of BoC's dynamic and approach to making a track.

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 2 September 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

the last bit of the song, reversed.cant be a fake, only boc would deliberately ruin a tune like this

― clarence boudica (FE7), Friday, 2 September 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

http://storycorps.net/audio/page.mp3

http://www.kilbot.net/writing/mac.php

― Cold Lampin, Friday, 2 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Yea I dont think that is a fake, if it is that is a great fake and I want to hear a full album by who did it. Please keep the leak stuff coming.

― , Friday, 2 September 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

only a few days until the single is on BLEEP.....and yeah if you have the album let us hear more!!!!

― stu, Friday, 2 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I gots me some sherbert head. it came in reverse? Pretty easy fix. Weirdly surfy. from reports its 'dreamcoat' backwards. Sounds OK backwards, better forward.

― The Face, Saturday, 3 September 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

What else is cool?:

www.art-rash.com/handshakes

― The Face, Saturday, 3 September 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

PROMOS ARE NOW OUT!!!!

― bOc, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

leak it dudes

― Maximalizm, Saturday, 3 September 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Can someone reupload the real leaked track?

― Christian, Saturday, 3 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Check the YSI thread.

― sherbert head (inabillity), Sunday, 4 September 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

New BoC song "Oscar See Through Red Eye" is already up for download at www.bleep.com

― Maximalizm, Monday, 5 September 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

boards of canada is a idiot

― amon (eman), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

warp doesn't care about black people

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 5 September 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

why does boards of canada never want to rock?

― russignonald's, Monday, 5 September 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

"oscar" is just alright, i think.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

er if ppl can listen to it in full (and so record the stream) where's the incentive to give bleep 99p?

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

the stream fades 15 seconds or so from the point you start listening to it, forcing you to hear the thing in bits, but anyone w basic sound software could piece it together. i spose if you were that set on not buying it, it'd be easier to find the thing on slsk, so i guess it's kind of plea to do things legitimate like. i wondered the same thing, though.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

also a lil surprised that the ppl so incredibly keen for this to leak arent talking about the legitimate bits now available.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

(unfortunate overuse of the word 'legitimate', there. i'm tired.)

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

come to think of it the 15 second thing makes me fancy the challenge of ripping it even more than the merits of the yeah mediocre tune... clever warp

having the boc bits as isolated singularities out of context is quite the softoff i wager

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

"oh wow... a guitar!!"

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

"also a lil surprised that the ppl so incredibly keen for this to leak arent talking about the legitimate bits now available."

yeah, exactly. there's 300 posts of anticipation but by the time two tracks hit it's all been dissipated. most likely the new shit is so underwhelming it's enervated people's interest to the point that holding the z key down and hitting submit isn't even worth the effort.

― bill neil (inabillity), Monday, 5 September 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

kinda sad that some of yall are tryin to figure out ways not to shell out 99 cents...btw, oscar is pretty run of the mill boards (nothing too spectacular, that is, not by the high standards they've set from much of their previous catalog)...that satellite icarus track someone leaked a while back on this thread is frickin' incredible tho...more, please!

― venimdenim, Monday, 5 September 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

it's $1.35, for the record. I couldn't find a good reason not to pay.

OSTRE is definitely weaker than pretty much anything they've previously released. The use of crisp drum machines was a bad idea.. the mutated organic beats were part of what made BoC special. Another thing that set them apart from their contemporaries was the focus on melody, and the lack of it on OSTRE only emphasises that point.

― bill neil (inabillity), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

IIRC, the streams on Bleep are only 96kbps or so to discourage ripping.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

fuckkk :(
the new single off of BLEEP sucks :(
The sad thing is O.S.T.R.E. must be one of the best tracks on the album, otherwise they wouldnt have chosen it to be the first single.
its way tooo average sounding, no depth, no melody, no analougue, no balls...it SUCKSS!!! :O(

― Campfire is SUCKING!, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

"Chromakey Dreamboat" is really great.. you can hear it here:

http://www2.thewire.co.uk/mp3/STREAM/resonance/wire_18_aug_2005.mp3

It's the second song they play. It's hard to hear what's going on fully, but it sounds awesome.. it sounds like BoC, but in a way it's radically different form their nother stuff.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

And I totally agree about "Oscar" being pants.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

thanks for that link. the track is decent (better than OSTRE at least) and there are sections that I really like, but it's a shame about those beats.

I think in trying to sound different with this album they're losing their distinctive character and feel. I've lowered my expectations tremendously.

― bill neil (inabillity), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

i dont know about how i feel about that guitar riff.
it seems.... boring.

and dissapointing i am sad to say.

BUT.
i wasnt impressed with any of their songs on the 1st listen.
so we will see.
i still owe them for geogaddi even though i bought it.

― ben, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

As a longtime Boards obsessive, I must say that I really dig "Oscar". It may sound like Boards, but .... I ... like Boards. So I find that to be a good thing.

In the context of the album, I'm sure it'll sound better to those of you who are underwhelmed (which seems to be all of you). But I actually prefer "Oscar" to the other leaked track.

Ah well, each to his own

― Erock LAzron, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

'Oscar See Through Red Eye' is ok, imo. I don't like the chord progression. It doesn't really go anywhere at all.

― Salvador (Salvador), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

Erock, I for one cannot get enough of OSTRE. I've listened to it over and over and over and over...

Yes, it doesn't 'really go anywhere' because its already there! The subtleties and movements of sound are fantastic, with pieces being added and subtracted with extreme precision. The fact that there is no melodic hook makes it all the more intriguing to me. I get a sense of floating through space and passing through a swirling vortex of motions and glimpses.

I'm so glad that I didn't bring the expectations of specific structure, instrumentations and tambres that many of you seem to have. I'd challenge you to put on a pair of headphones and listen to this track on repeat, perhaps while doing someting else. I've never heard a piece of music quite like it.

― Bryan G, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

"perhaps while doing something else", heh

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

I think the new Oscar track is better than just "ok". I think it's pretty great actually. However, I also think it doesn't quite match up to some of Boards' greatest tracks.

― dkcmusic, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

all the legit tracks are amazing,but i am not so keen on the guitar in the chromakey one that was played on the radio. Oscar is stunning after repeated listenings. the arrangment is so odd...the reprisal hook motify thing...bassline only once every few minutes..a strange tune but stunning as i said.

but ENOUGH already. wheres the GODDAMN LEAK??

i seriously had dreams last night that it got leaked. rude awakening.

― fuckin' bubo, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

should be leaked in a few days/ maybe a week..........

― stupidash, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

but how does music reak?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Its been leaked (not by me). I'll post link once I've downloaded. (Dramatic wait)

― curious yellow, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, I've decided to upload myself cause I dont want to kill the other link, wait an hour and it should be up. It 192kbps and its real.

― curious yellow, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

...

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

ah ok i found it too, 18 mins to go...

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

well, this sounds pretty genuine to me.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.php?id=Z0QWM6CBS5CW2LUANZ22T20W8

― curious yellow, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, well thats down and I'm still waiting for mine to upload.

― curious yellow, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.php?id=36SJILN3C9WK03NIAN4SE4UW4C

Works, freshly uploaded.

― curious yellow, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

ha, clearly people are reading this thread, then!

i dunno, on first listen it sounded a bit dull. but that was probably true of geogaddi, too. i should give it a go on headphones later, i guess.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

lol, I agree it sounds a little dull but like you said on repeated listens I'm sure it will make sense. Man, my upload is down allready!

― curious yellow, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey can you post it again? The three authentic tracks so far are great!

― VLCI, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm not going to post it again because it took so long to upload (2 hours) I'm on Soulseek, tell me your username and I'll add you to my friends list then you can leech it off me without and queues.

― curious yellow, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

My user name is "peter_upstairs"

― VLCI, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Send me a message on slsk yeah?

― VLCI, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

I'll probably come to terms with this new sound. Now that I've shed all expectations I'm free to enjoy it for what it is.

― bill neil (inabillity), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

i'm starting to think BIBIO was one of the boards of canada guys.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

This is a perfect album for walking, as I discovered on a two-hour trek around the neighborhood (and a lake, no less).

― bill neil (inabillity), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

OH WOW I WAS SEARCHING FOR THE PERFECT "WALKING" ALBUM

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I thought that said Wanking.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

The fake 'Chromakey Dreamcoat' is so much better than the rather dull 'by numbers' real version.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

also, when will you people stop bothering with YSI and use the better free uploaders?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

it's just a harmless observation, wtf.

― bill neil (inabillity), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

it's just harmless joke, wtf!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

am i wrong in finding this thinner and more transparent than the boc i'm accustomed to? so far nothing as thick n delirious as "julie and candy", or as infinitely loopable as "amo bishop", or as genuinely serene as "corsair" ("tears from the compound eye" is trying too hard). the lone gimmick = the guitar samples (plus fake fingering on "peacock tail")(quiet dan perry).

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

ok....so i'm new to this here...but it's september 7th,7:18 pm....florida time.are you guys meaning to tell me that it's actually leaked?if so,somebody help me out with a soulseek tag so i can get it off ya.how can you be sure it's the real thing?

― jimmy berger, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

what does the time have anything to do with it? are you trying to check if we are posting from the future?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Son, this record is fine. Is it more of the same? Yes. Does it take fewer chances than Geogaddi? Yes. Does it sound like monkeys ripping off MHTRTC and not quite understanding what made that LP so special but still trying really hard to re-create it? Yes, which is why it's REALLY GOOD and I REALLY LIKES.

― Petroski (petroski), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Um...they ARE monkeys, aren't they?

― Ptah Dasein, Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Son, this record is fine.

dad?

― amon (eman), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

is it on soulseek....can someone help me?any usernames?mine is bill234.there are so many fakes.......how can i tell?someone help please.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

where i can download kazza lite????

― amon (eman), Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

please...........amon,help.anyone help.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

i will ;_) ok ;););)alright i will help ;);))))):)

― amon (eman), Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

ok...guess you're being sarcastic.sorry to bother you.i'm just a devoted nerd-ass boc fan lookin' for a way in.sorry.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

what u need is a little *magic*

― boc lobster, Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

the real one is 192kb and the first track is 44 seconds long...no go search

― venimdenim, Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.uvic.ca/archive/homepages/assets/featurephotos/zonk.jpg

― puffy sleeves, Thursday, 8 September 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

So, as everyone should do, I got very stoned and listened to this album with friends.

Of course, this meant that I was in and out of the album whilst talking to others, but I really liked what I heard. Obviously I need to hear it on headphones, out walking, etc. But there are some real gems on it.

Incidently, one of my friends has only liked single B.O.C. songs (1969, etc) in the past, but not complete albums. This one though he did really like. I'm not sure if that means they've made a much more "accessable" record, but it seems like that might be the case.

It does sound a lot less menacing than their other stuff, but instead it sounds much warmer and almost serene.

I dunno, I still don't know what song is what and which is called which. On the plus side though, by the time the album comes out I'll be madly in love with it.

Also, the guitars sound cool. Lighten up and enjoy the record.

― Erock Lazron, Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

but maybe this time, instead of actually liking the complete album, your friend just liked a whole bunch of single B.O.C. songs in a row

stoner

― venimdenim, Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

If what I've got is real, and I am reliably informed that it is, then I've enjoyed it more off first listen than anything else I've heard by them.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

So we all have that album (however we will buy it anyway in october) and we listened it carefully... So did we find some back-playing encrypted hidden messages? We already know that the end of "Satelitte Anthem Icarus" contains a back-played melody.
Candidates are: Chromakey Dreamcoat (some filtered speaking). Peacock Tail (from approx. 3:40 starts some music or speaking on background), 84' Pontiac Dream (again, some noise on background), Sherbert Head (from 0:21 some voice of woman speaking).....
Well, it is Boards of Canada as i like them! :)

― defor, Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

;) stfu

― illegal down loads, Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

that last bit of satellite reversed...petty, but pretty

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1DZIF1LZ7RRK00OL9BH79RW4W

― venimdenim, Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

jermaine is absolutely correct about this album's lack of muscle. even by boc's own standards, this is a pretty wispy, conservative record; there's not nearly enough tension or counterpoint or drama. if they were going to go down this path, i would have preferred an extrapolation on the beautiful place ep (ie. more tracks like "peacock tail"). also, i think the guitars were maybe a bad idea; i totally sympathize with the desire to bring new elements into the fold but there are a million and one other places they could have gone. the acoustic + synths thing has been done to death already, don't understand why such a special sounding band would want to shift their sound more towards the middle..

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

i think it sounds wonderful. wonderful indeed.

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

oh, don't get me wrong, i like a lot of this record, i guess i just wanted the moon.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I want mark to have the moon :(

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

question for the techies...if i were to use a program (goldwave) to resave the 192kb files at 320kb, would that improve the sound quality (or just take up more disk space!)

help please!

― venimdenim, Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that just a re-encode?

That will make the quality worse i think.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah, in addition to taking up more disk space, you might open yourself up to some weird artefacting. any of the frequencies you'd hear above 192kps have already been eliminated in the wave -> mp3 encoding process.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

you can't add quality that wasn't there to begin with

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

touché

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I was pretty underwhelmed at first. Some songs seemed kinda bland, others seemed mistakable for Moby, some of the beats seemed drum machine-ish. Some of the progressions just seemed too...happy. I think I really was expecting to hear more Geogaddi or MHTRTC, and this album isn't either of those. It's not a linear progression from their previous albums. It's more of a sidestep.

After a few listens, it really started to grow on me. I threw on the good ol' headphones and gave it some good attention. The layers and melodies and complexities really started to reveal themselves, and before long I realized it's the same BOC I know and love, just with a new spin. The guitar is great on some songs (Hey Saturday Sun is my current favorite), and the beats are better than I gave them credit for initially. There are, true to BOC tradition, lots of OMG-shit-my-pants-so-dope melodies buried in there. I think the backwards synth bassline that kicks in at about 3:45 on Oscar STRE is one of the dopest lines they've ever made (and, of course, it doesn't repeat, which I've always loved about their best melodies.)

All in all, it's a really sweet album. I'm not sure that it tops MHTRTC or Geogaddi. I don't think it does, but that will take months of listening to determine. It certainly is a quality BOC album though, and it'll be in my car and on my computer playlist and in my MP3 player and in the bathroom boombox for months to come. (And of course I'll be buying in on cd and vinyl in BOCtober.)

― junklard, Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

can someone list the total playing time for the entire record for me.....wanna make sure i got the right thing.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

cutty...thanks for the blunt rudeness.i was having such a great day....TOO much of a great day.....man,i needed a change.so,thank you.nothing better than witnessing the words of an asshole on your 20-minute break from work.i pray karma exists.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

PHEAR THE KARMA CUTTY

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

he should.he most certainly should.though something tells me that karma has already had it's day(life?) with him.hence the juvenile antics.dude,it's time to fess up....and do the right thing.otherwise,you'll gain MORE wait,grow MORE depressed,and not even your mother will look at you......dude,that's the only woman that still does!
oh
and i got my answer elsewhere.
thank you to all kind souls.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't invest too much headphone time into an mp3 version of the album btw. The waves contain digital gems that fill the voids.

― snakefukker, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

One more thing to keep in mind. BoC was never half as entertaining as when they made mental associations with such commonplace items as the golden ratio, occult literature, cults and the like. Remove the hype and anchors to the real interesting materials and the magick disappears a little more with every listen now.

― hipNoSYS, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

wait.wait.damn cutty,you win this one.it should've been "weight".....not wait.cutty-1,jimmy-0.
maybe karma is getting me.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah.The guitars work on the album is mediocre atbest.Real basic chord progressions that only really barely work on satelite blah blah blah.Lets hope this promo is all the left over material from the real album.

― johnweener, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I just downloaded this... beautiful.. once again BOC prove to be masters of radiant divine joy... breathtaking... simply breathtaing... a religious experience.... fuck cutty and all the other techno haters... BOC are gods!

-andrew

― andrew b, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

andrew....man...can you help me out?what is the total playing time for your copy?

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

cockledoodledoo is turning out to be the rodney dangerfield of this thread

― venimdenim, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

rodney dangerfield?hmmm,that's not such a bad thing i guess.as a matter of fact,i'll take that as a complimet....even if that's not how it was intended.i'll take the lack of respect,and spin it into comedy gold.yeah.....that's it.
anyway,my first impression of the record is a good one.it's probably their most straightforward effort......well hell,it's early....i have to listen to it a few more times.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

damn....did it again.complimet.i was thinking of the 86 world series i guess.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

can someone list the total playing time for the entire record for me.....wanna make sure i got the right thing.
---------------------
oh
and i got my answer elsewhere.
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can you help me out?what is the total playing time for your copy?

agagagagagagaeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

― agagagag, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

http://jokezone.8m.com/_borders/ijz.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

"techno"

― don't be jerk, this is china (FE7), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU NERDS?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

man,it's easy to irritate people on this forum.simple questions...much like the one i asked...drive these characters batty.maybe,just maybe,someone will answer my question.what's the total running time?am i going to lambasted for this request?do i give a fuck?this is fun.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

is your space bar broken?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

it is lovely, and you can find it here if you (still) dont have it...
www.brunobanani.blogspot.com

― Bruno Banani (Bruno Banani), Friday, 9 September 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

Extract from .svf file. Contains CRC32s. All you need to check it's right.

01_Into_The_Rainbow_Vein.mp3 d92e2b81
02_Chromakey_Dreamcoat.mp3 a40586e5
03_Satellite_Anthem_Icarus.mp3 8207c42f
04_Peacock_Tail.mp3 953fe543
05_Dayvan_Cowboy.mp3 fed364f1
06_A_Moment_Of_Clarity.mp3 cf4c2e20
07_84_Pontiac_Dream.mp3 68eefd10
08_Sherbert_Head.mp3 f271a5b8
09_Oscar_See_Through_Red_Eye.mp3 e3e97d8b
10_Ataronchronon.mp3 7649b190
11_Hey_Saturday_Sun.mp3 3f6ea0bd
12_Constants_Are_Changing.mp3 cecb3819
13_Slow_This_Bird_Down.mp3 87475376
14_Tears_From_The_Compound_Eye.mp3 43cb4724
15_Farewell_Fire.mp3 f7d7cf28

― defor, Friday, 9 September 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

you gotta be quick!!!!

BOARDS OF CANADA "The Campfire Headphase" (2005)
bitrate: 192
pass: giraffe

http://rapidshare.de/files/4849418/B01.zip.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/4849434/B02.zip.html

thanx to rockrock on & claude

― ALIJASON, Friday, 9 September 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Why did Warp release the track listing except to give the green light to a load of fakers to get the discussion groups going?

― fingers, Friday, 9 September 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

the album I downloaded was ruuuuuuuubish

― toes, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

you gotta be quick!!!!

also you need to pay for premium acct to dl pt.2 zip. rapidshare lame. use megaupload.

― webbers, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Whatever Bruno linked to is GREAT.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Fuckin' Google.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

If this is them then it's easily my favorite BoC.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

huh. the guitar tracks make me think of...

http://yoda.zoy.org/photos/2001/07-18-Boston/01-StarBucks-small.jpg

― amon (eman), Friday, 9 September 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

if you people are downloading the album, please buy it as well,
i am downloading it and will buy it when it is released.
please support these brilliant artists.

― benc, Saturday, 10 September 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

lossless rip????

come on already.....

― stu, Saturday, 10 September 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/32/39073801_b8dde750dd_o.gif

― amon (eman), Saturday, 10 September 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

if someone had a lossless rip it would have been up already....

― chimeme, Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

At the end of the day, BOC produce music. Nothing too wonderous really. It's not like they deliver babies, or feed the starving. I like them as good as the next guy, but I am so bloody sick of the slavish following and "ooooh what could it mean" type shit

― Spunky Onions, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

boc produce... music?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Mmm... listened to this one all the way through today. Must say that no tracks really stand out except Chromakey Dreamcoat, and even that song after a few listens has gotten old and lost it's appeal. I think the main thing I have to say about this album is it's just a major down step in quality and real emotional songwriting. It sounds like someone trying to be Boards of Canada who sucks. I also dislike the excessive silence in the last few tracks. There just isn't enough concrete BoC melody and addictive beats. It's very simple, quiet, and dramatically less thoughtful, calming, and interesting. Not enough intrigue, not enough originality, and what's with those lame guitars? I'm sorry but this album sucks, in comparison with BoCs other albums and electronic music in general. Any one of Venetian Snares album has more thought and feeling put in to one track than all these tracks combined.

― Curtiss, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Another complaint... Does anyone else hate how a lot of the songs fade out? What happened to the seamless instrumental interlude transitions of MHRTC and Geogaddi. Man I so friggin disappointed and I don't think I've ever built an album up as much as this one.

― Curtiss, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

DAYVAN COWBOY.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I think that it sounds less creepy, which always seemed affected and pretentious to me, as if they were just baiting the fans who read too much into it. Maybe there's an eerieness that's lost? I don't know, I'll listen again, but I really really enjoyed it this weekend.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm wondering why you would have built this one up so much. I mean, Geogaddi wasn't a huge departure, were you expecting something radically different? I guess I'm not clued in to what the die hard fan's expectatings were for this one.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

i can't figure out if i like "dayvan cowboy" or not! i think maybe i would be more receptive to it if it was by a different band. i find the strings very trip-hoppy, which is something i thought i'd never ever say about boc, much less in 2005!

"peacock tail" is still my runaway favorite, with "slow this bird down" a distant second.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

(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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

DAYVAN COWBOY.

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

(in headphones)

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

i love the leslie nielsen sample.

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

i love the leslie nielsen sample.

otm

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

especially DAYVAN COWBOY!

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

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

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

because some of us have ACTUAL REAL PROMOS

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

OK BEN FIGURE IT ALL OUT

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

boc to the drawing board.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

I love the back cover..

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

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

Where is a Leslie Nielsen sample?

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

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

It's not Freescha, somebody else.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

phamphire pheadphase

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Good grief how is this thread still going?

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

I have a kaleidoscope

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

lossless rip??

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

oxymoron??

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

It does sound like Moon Safari.

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

it's bobbins

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

no it's not

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

Yes, yes it is.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

Is that available anywhere else? Download, maybe?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Chemical Brothers?

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I just got this album!

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

too bad nobody cares about it anymore

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

People freaked out about the Strokes last album?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

slightly less, what a typo!

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

pardon?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

pwned

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

I never really liked them, but I always figured they were pretty cool.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

This album is, as they say, "a grow-er not a show-er". It has really grown on me, and seems best when you're writing and you just want something that flows.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

yes this alb is def a grower (even if in places it does sound a lot like Tides by Arovane)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 19 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

By this point, Boards of Canada just make Boards of Canada records. They've settled on their style, now they're just tweaking and modifying. Either you like it or you don't. I personally think the new album is a little slick and Zero 7-esque, without enough of the unsettling elements of their prior work, but it's still a fine record.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

it's shit, i'm sorry. i really am. but it's shit.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

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

i've been thinking that this seems such a strange thing to say, since dayvan cowboy comes right after and out-immensifies it to bits (after the long intro)

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

The more I hear this record the more sure I become that it is one of the best records ever made. A bold claim I know, but I'm really starting to get the impression that BoC have done something really quite special. The ulrich schnauss comparison upthread is quite interesting as I head him for the first time last night and was pretty underwhelmed by its artificiallity and the tedium which each song descended into after a while, the beats in particular. The level of detail on each and every aspect of each and every one of the tracks on the campfire headphase, to my ear, is utterly unlike anything else I have ever heard. The really great thing about it is that it just doesn't sound like electronic music. I can't help but feel like I'm responding to it in a way that doesn't quite fit with anything else I've felt before.

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 (venimdeni...), October 2nd, 2005.

Not that I'm an expert on kaleidoscopes or anything but a friend of mine has one of these and it is absolutely beautiful.

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

i really just don't get this album. it's soooo boring and sounds like a cheap late-90s "chill-out" record.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Ulrich Schnauss is awful compared to anything, never mind this record.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Fair point, but he and BoC could be put into the same category. I think it would be a mistake to do so as there are a number of layers of additional complexity on TCH which raises it from 'chill-out' (although I think it can be listened to in such a way) to something else entirely.

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

it just sounds completely unadventurous, especially compared to their previous output, to my ears and i've really tried to like it.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

neil, you've convinced me to give it another go, certainly ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Excellent. I am most glad.

Wogan - it may be the case that it is adventuring in ways other than those you are expecting or desiring.

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

It's their best record. It has their best tunes on it.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if it's their best. It's the only one I really listen to at the moment. It is about detail, and it repays concentration and effort. Now I'm not saying all music should do that, but BoC seem to rely on these very precise sound textures more than most groups that they're usually compared to. I can see how superficially it might seem banal, but I keep coming back to Campfire and it keeps repaying me with new feelings or new experiences. And at the same time Nick is right because it's their poppest album. I think ditching (or hiding) the vocal samples was a smart move - that was the one trick from Music Has or Geogaddi that wouldn't have worked again.

― Sinister Oink Kingpin (noodle vague), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

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

-- Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:11 (1 year ago) Link
Yes, yes it is.

-- Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:21 (1 year ago) Link

I've just listened to this on repeat for about 3 or 4 hours whilst writing poetry. I've decided it might actually be better than Dayvan Cowboy. It. Is. Astonishing. One of the truly great chord-progressions.

― Just got offed, Monday, 13 August 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

This record is Ok. I think the lack of using the odd vocal samples is more telling than using a few guitar samples. BOC cutting up some odd vocal samples over some of their tracks was the icing on the cake. You take those odd ball "orange" out of there and the tracks are not quite as otherworldly. I think it is also possible that Boards of Canada felt like the using the cut up vocal samples was a bit of a crutch and went at these recordings with the idea of pull it off without using them.

― earlnash, Monday, 13 August 2007 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

i fuck with this but i hope the next one is better

― and what, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

i fuck with this but i hope the next one is better

a weighty sentiment

― Lowell N. Behold'n, Sunday, 25 May 2008 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Surely the Album they were trying to make all along...a mix of 70's school and collages nature programmes and test card music...

― sonnyboy, Sunday, 25 May 2008 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

i like this album...

― stephen, Monday, 26 May 2008 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Early on I complained about the easy-listening (perceived as generic) qualities of TCH. Those qualities are the reason i've returned to this album again and again. Just buttery, effortless-sounding tracks that put my mind at ease.

― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 26 May 2008 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

peacock tail is still sublime

― ciderpress, Monday, 26 May 2008 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

Farewell Fire, guys

― baaderonixx, Monday, 26 May 2008 06:27 (eighteen years ago)

peacock tail is still sublime

Yeah, I also like Dayvan Cowboy a lot.

― chap, Monday, 26 May 2008 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

those two songs might be my favourite pair (as a pair) of songs this decade, and the last 1:20 of chromakey dreamcoat is possibly even better; the rest is mostly very good but as ethan says it would be great if the next album kept to TCH's initial level of quality throughout

nontheless, history will look upon this record very, very kindly

OMG i just discovered literally this second that hey saturday sun is a reworking of satellite anthem icarus, inevitably i prefer the first version, that first 22 minute stretch is unfuckable with

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

last 1:20 of chromakey dreamcoat is pretty much the pinnacle of 00's mood music, it ought to go on for twenty minutes

― Just got offed, Thursday, 26 June 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

this is the only BoC album that i like. head and shoulders above everything else they did, it doesnt sound like they are trying too hard.

― pipecock, Friday, 27 June 2008 02:12 (seventeen years ago)

I wouldn't say it's head & shoulders above everything else they've done (I still think ROYGBIV and Kid For Today are perhaps their pinnacles), but is has, bar those two songs, got most of my favourite BoC tunes on it.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:01 (seventeen years ago)

I still don't see the appeal of this compared to pretty much everything else they'd done. It's basically just a 90s chill out album, devoid of any of the personality of the previous two LPs. It just bounces along quite boringly, there's none of the mystery of Geogaddi nor the playfulness of Music Has The Right, and yet nothing to fill that void. Why in 2005 would I have wanted to listen to some sort of mowed-over rip off of Moon Safari?

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:08 (seventeen years ago)

what may have put me off was the pitchfork interview of the time where BoC basically destroyed any of the mystique they'd built up around themselves over the years and said in so many words that they were only interested in making nice music. THat's a bit like Kiss saying they'll never wear facepaint again.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:11 (seventeen years ago)

See, I don't think I'd invested ANYTHING AT ALL in BoC's mythology or mystery, and thus couldn't give a shit that they were brothers who wanted to make music. This album, song for song, just contains the music they've made that moves me most.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:18 (seventeen years ago)

Music has the right is still my favourite by a long shot but then again I've yet to hear the Campfire... Geogaddi never grabbed me although the weird middle eastern vibe on 'alpha & omega' is awesome. Twoism was incredibly overrated especially after all the fuss that greeted its re-release.

― sam500, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:31 (seventeen years ago)

Fair enough, you don't have to invest in all that stuff. For me it was something that set them aside from other bands making a similar noise - backwards samples of Waco prophets, references to the fibonacci sequence etc.

I admit maybe it was time to jack a lot of that stuff in before it became clichéd. But all the same it doesn't stop Dayvan Cowboy sounding like Mondeo chill out Buddha Bar nonsense to me. I really wanted the follow up to Geogaddi to continue further into the bad-trip psychedelic nightmare it hinted at.

I had this vision of BOC's trajectory whereby Music Has The Right was the fluffy playful album with an innocuous surface but a slightly uncomfortable undertone (the closing warning seemed to hint that there was something more deep seated than this ambient loveliness). In a Beautiful Place and Geogaddi follow with a more confirmed feeling of paranoia (Energy Warning, Beware The Friendly Stranger etc). I was really expecting them to come out with a hysterical dark album, as would have been a logical conclusion to the cycle, but instead it's just lazy guitars and shimmery synths. It doesn't do anything for me other than make me think of adverts for Dulux paint and Herbal Essences bubblebath.

I guess that's just me and what I expect I suppose. Note I was a HUGE fan of this band and invested a lot of time in them at the beginning of the decade and so to be given an album of "just nice tunes" is a bit of a downer for me.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

i pretty much agree with ya, i've always thought TCH just lacks depth, and it's never held my interest.

― ledge, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:39 (seventeen years ago)

That's all fair enough, Grozart, and I can see that had I been that emotionally invested in them then TCH would probably be a big disappointment to me too.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:40 (seventeen years ago)

I can relate to what Grozart is saying but the last few times I played this, on late sunny afternoons, it totally fit the mood. Different records for differnt times, I guess.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:51 (seventeen years ago)

i think i may need to give it one last try.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:08 (seventeen years ago)

take it on its own terms, y'know?

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:09 (seventeen years ago)

Though I wasn't in love with it at the time, this has become the album that I turn to when I want to listen to BoC these days. MHTRTC and Geogaddi are still great, but the former sometimes sounds a little chintzy and the latter has never been served well by all those interludes.

― jaymc, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

the interludes are what make it BOC dude!

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:25 (seventeen years ago)

haha dog latin is making me consider bothering with this. was never a huge BoC guy but maybe if they made nicer music i'd like 'em more.

― banriquit, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

Odd this should kick off on the morning I decide to listen to the album again for the first time in months, if not years.

― Rob M v2, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:34 (seventeen years ago)

"Dayvan Cowboy" is Mondeo chill out bar Buddha nonsense? I shake my head at you. Sometimes, keeping it (fairly) simple is the way to go. Especially when you can get such uniquely blissful sounds out of your instruments. Sonically and structurally, this album and Moon Safari are miles apart.

― Just got offed, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:47 (seventeen years ago)

louis, what do you think of their other albums just out of interest?

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 09:58 (seventeen years ago)

I really like Music Has The Right To Children although I'm rarely tempted to listen to it ahead of TCH. Geogaddi I have but I don't really ever stick it on. Maybe I should rectify this! My brother has every single BoC release, obscure or otherwise, just in case I need to hear some of the non-album stuff. TCH is just so much...meatier, so completely at one with its own blissed-out vibe. It's hard to explain but the addition of guitar-sounds probably appeals to some sort of electro-friendly rockist in me. :D

― Just got offed, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:02 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i think the guitar factor puts me off as well really. don't know why, it just seems like an unnecessary gimmick to appeal to Q magazine critics. gone are the analog synths and gnomic samples, here's some lush strings and slow picked guitar.

I think Geogaddi and In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country are my favourite releases by BOC. I've always enjoyed their eviler undertones as I said. MHTRTC is great too but I may have over-listened to it. Geogaddi is claustrophobic and messy in many places but I think it's also their most detailed and interesting.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:14 (seventeen years ago)

Probably, Geogaddi is the one I admire most but tbh I haven't played in years. 'Beautiful Place' is the one I never tire of.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:16 (seventeen years ago)

beautiful place is amazing. i like it because all the tracks are really really simplistic - I was thrown by it at first when I first heard Kid For Today as it's really long and repetitive compared to stuff on MHTRTC, but as an EP it's so bleak and pretty, like a forlorn winter's day after snow.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:23 (seventeen years ago)

Note to self: put BoC on yr iPod

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:46 (seventeen years ago)

dan what sort of a time does your work start?!

― Just got offed, Friday, 27 June 2008 10:47 (seventeen years ago)

This week I'm pretty much on London time, so... 4:30? 5:00?

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 June 2008 11:24 (seventeen years ago)

(Of course by "London time" I mean "come in before the sun rises and leave after the sun has set"; yesterday was a 17 hour day so I'm in the mood for BoC's creepy pastoralisms.)

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 June 2008 11:24 (seventeen years ago)

did you become the big boss in the end then?

and yeah BoC would be my prescription too

― Just got offed, Friday, 27 June 2008 11:25 (seventeen years ago)

more like the miniboss

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 June 2008 11:45 (seventeen years ago)

grozart OTM, summing up my exact hesitancy about CH. there's this kind of uneasiness/weirdness to geogaddi that was so enthralling to me, and really sucked me in. CH is nice enough but it was a complete disappointment to me when it came out.

― Mark Clemente, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:55 (seventeen years ago)

'84 Pontiac Dream is really really good. Not enough props go to that track.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 June 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

omg I had forgotten how much I LOVELOVELOVE Muisc Has A Right To Children

"Telephasic Workshop" is so fucking nice right now

― HI DERE, Saturday, 28 June 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

-andrew

― andrew b, Thursday, September 8, 2005 2:27 PM

― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

a 100% quote of a four year old posting including the spelling mistakes. i am flabbergasted. don't you have an opinion of your own, am0n?

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:11 (sixteen years ago)

andrew b is my old login

― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

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?

never did ID this track - took me a while to realise it also samples the line "this is the promise of the tree of life" from the Star Wars holiday special.

― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

andrew b was ethan

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

all right, now everything is crystal clear.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

what have you contributed besides coming at my main man am0n sideways

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

just read the thread carefully, cutty & you will see...

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

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, November 23, 2005 6:40 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

please elaborate on the music "ageing process"

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

they make electronic music sound brittle & old by applying some special techniques. in the beginning they used taping, then analog synths. iirc they copy samples so many times that the end result has got this warm, nostalgic, hissing sound. something like that.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

not buying these special techniques

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 30 November 2009 21:55 (sixteen years ago)

you know what my ipod shuffled to a minute ago? a remix of alex c of music has the right to children. actually it is more of an r&b cover. sweet.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 30 November 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)

SWEET BRO

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

dudes this album about campfire headphase is pretty nice
i like it

― Shackleton Crater (jdchurchill), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:08 (sixteen years ago)

andrew b was ethan

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, November 30, 2009 4:21 PM

lol it was?

― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

yes he confessed years later

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

on his banbed

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 04:20 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Still *such* a great album - Satellite Anthem Icarus just filled me with such delight that I felt compelled to revive.

Much news on the new one other than the title?

― Bill A, Monday, 28 December 2009 14:13 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

This video is incredible. Watch it in HD if you can. The song is from the Japanese version of the lp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSM-jyQh3o

― van smack, Sunday, 21 March 2010 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

!!!

― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 21 March 2010 02:21 (sixteen years ago)

nice! thanks

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 21 March 2010 11:26 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

Have really come round to this.

― djh, Sunday, 27 June 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/19/boards-of-canada-the-campfire-headphase-2005/

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

Nice write up as usual sicko.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

Are they even still a group?

― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:17 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

Boards of Canada & Ctrl All Del – The Phasefire Camphead

The remixes are horrid.

― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:43 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

wait a minute this is their best album

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 05:00 (seven years ago)

lol no

― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 09:54 (seven years ago)

Yes it is

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:11 (seven years ago)

It's definitely in the top 5

― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:16 (seven years ago)

well... it is

― riposte malone (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 11:20 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

Call me learned but Geogaddi = MHTRTC > Tomorrow's Harvest >>> Campfire Headphase

― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:14 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

bzzt
IABPOITC > Geogaddi = Hi Scores = Twosim > MHTRTC >> Tomorrow's Harvest > Campfire

xxxp HA - so close!

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:17 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

this might be equal to the orig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9WyWzbcS0

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:28 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

yeah i recently discovered that Mira Calix version and it's really nice

― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:15 (seven years ago)

In a Beautiful Place is perfect as far as I'm concerned. A perfect EP

Hear, hear.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:17 (seven years ago)

In a Beautiful Place is perfect as far as I'm concerned. A perfect EP

― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, December 12, 2018 1:23 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:18 (seven years ago)

xp :)

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:18 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

You gotta be in the mood, maaan.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:24 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

Satellite Anthem Icarus tho

― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:02 (seven years ago)

ignoring the intro, that run of four tracks is their pinnacle imo

― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:03 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

there's a lot of electro-rockism in this album's lower status tbh

― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:20 (seven years ago)

Obviously. Guitars! They’ve sold out to become Beth Orton’s backing band!

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 December 2018 18:23 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

Satellite Anthem Icarus is like a masterclass in counterpoint & arrangement

― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 23:57 (seven years ago)

Tomorrow’s Harvest OTOH I’ve never gotten close to get into

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 15 December 2018 11:58 (seven years ago)

Felt like a conscious 180 degree turn after all the criticism they got for Campfire

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:02 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

six years pass...

Took me 20 years but I finally connected with this album.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 August 2025 04:31 (nine months ago)

Btw can you believe this album turns 20 this year.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 August 2025 04:32 (nine months ago)

not that they need more accolades but it really feels like vaporwave sprung from all this, BoC has always felt like very online music to me so I'm guessing all these young'uns doin that kind of thing in 2010 were really trying to capture what BoC were. I know Vektroid was pretty open about it.

the other day I put that wild part of Xavier: Renegade Angel where he's arguing with himself on top of "Dayvan Cowboy"...dunno if it's good exactly but its definitely a trip

― frogbs, Monday, 11 August 2025 04:46 (nine months ago)

Children and Geogaddi got canonised but this stands right there with them

― H.P, Monday, 11 August 2025 05:02 (nine months ago)

and tomorrow’s harvest is their masterpiece

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Monday, 11 August 2025 05:17 (nine months ago)

(ftr I like campfire headphase plenty)

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Monday, 11 August 2025 05:17 (nine months ago)

At one point in my life Geogaddi was my favorite thing of theirs but now it's my least. And yeah their last two are probably their best two and also took me a while to truly get them. They are both masterpieces.

Would love for them to drop more but I kinda feel they're retired in the Scottish countryside

― octobeard, Monday, 11 August 2025 08:27 (nine months ago)

Dayvan Cowboy is my favorite track of theirs by a wide margin too

― octobeard, Monday, 11 August 2025 08:29 (nine months ago)

Yeah I've cooled somewhat on Geodaddi. It was my favourite, but maybe the appeal of its edgy kindertrauma aesthetic has waned since it came out. No fault of its own, of course - that path was a lot less trodden in 2002, and bringing the darkness further to the fore was a canny move at the time.

My not-a-fandom of Campfire Headphase is well documented. It was like they'd turned the big lights on halfway through watching a cosy horror film - very unwelcome. All the corners had been brightened, all the edges sanded off. Dayvan Cowboy sounded like the soundtrack to an advert for an SUV or a travel company, tipping BoC from queasy to easy listening. Or at least that's how I perceived it.

To further illuminate things, Pitchfork (I think) ran an article at the time that lifted the lid on BoC as a band; where they revealed they were in fact brothers and that all the mysterious backmasking and cryptic songtitles were (obviously, now I look back) part of a big deliberate prank with no further meaning to be found.

Well of course they were. The world had changed between 2002 and 2005: Trying to maintain an aire of esoteric mystery in 2005, when so many more people were turning on to social media, and the blogosphere, wasn't just broadly futile, it was embarrassing: Like a child performing a magic trick who asks you to look away while they openly fumble around with their props.

But I loved the mystery, the gnosticism of BoC. I wanted more of that. And in some ways I miss my own naivete in the pre-and-early internet days where artists could cultivate an aura that would have me and others speculating about whether Richard D James really did own a bank and a tank, or whether BoC were part of a shadowy cabal of Scottish hippie cultists broadcasting secret messages through their music, or even more terrestrial things like how to track down and decipher the arcane back catalgoues of acts like Basic Channel or Boredoms.

So with that, I'm going to go back to Campfire Headphase today and enjoy it for what it is: It's BoC's 'Wild Honey', a down-home and honest album freed from the sybilline trappings of their previous work. I'll report back.

― Ray Cat Strut (dog latin), Monday, 11 August 2025 09:27 (nine months ago)

Listening now. It's very pleasant, and there are familiar melodies and sounds which fall like candied fruit into my recollective mind. BoC have a habit of doing this - these little sonic triggers that bury-in over time. The strings on Dayvan Cowboy have never sounded so gorgeous.

Still not a fan of those super-bright and shimmery acoustic guitar sounds, and probably never will be. Reminds me of that "folktronica" craze in the early-2000s which did nothing for me. The incongruity of electronic beats + chimey acoustic guitar just isn't a sound combination I generally enjoy.

Despite knowing the reasons why, I think leaving out all the cool samples does this album down a bit - there's less to latch on to, and it does end up coming off as a pleasant-if-backgroundy album of beats and sounds as opposed to a thematic work like MHTRTC. I hear a lot of DNA with something like Air's '10,000Hz The Legend', but even that album had enough presentative weirdness going on to justify its relaxed 70s space-lounge vibe.

― Ray Cat Strut (dog latin), Monday, 11 August 2025 09:59 (nine months ago)

and tomorrow’s harvest is their masterpiece

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Monday, August 11, 2025 1:17 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 11 August 2025 10:02 (nine months ago)

also, terrific posts, dog latin.

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 11 August 2025 10:05 (nine months ago)

unlike dog latin I think the folktronica stuff aged very well. I know, I wasn't really expecting it to either. but I go back and listen to early Four Tet, The Books, etc...that music still sounds great to me. there was a period where I was over it but I dunno. I sure love it now. anyway I think this might be my favorite of theirs actually. the key for me was getting into those tracks in the second half, since the first half I loved right from the start. but geez, there's some real pretty stuff in there. I dig the messed up country vibes on a track like Hey Saturday Sun. if only they'd went out on a limb like this more instead of releasing albums once every never these days

― frogbs, Sunday, 17 August 2025 23:18 (nine months ago)

nine months pass...

Yeah ... their last masterpiece imho. A perfect headphone album.

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 3 June 2026 22:14 (six days ago)

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 16:23

21 years later and if I still have the mp3 it's on a dusty old external drive that may not work anymore but would still like to know this :)

― nashwan, Wednesday, 3 June 2026 22:46 (six days ago)

Oh yeah me too. I liked that tune

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Thursday, 4 June 2026 07:56 (five days ago)

Played this today and still struggle to find anything that holds my interest aside from Slow This Bird Down

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 4 June 2026 08:05 (five days ago)

It's my least favourite of theirs, I struggle to remember much beyond Chromakey Dreamcoat, Dayvan Cowboy and Peacock Tail.

― chap, Thursday, 4 June 2026 08:51 (five days ago)

'84 Pontiac Dream is the keeper of this for me

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Thursday, 4 June 2026 09:21 (five days ago)

the lack of fun samples and backmasking and whatnot really smooths the record out though. for people like me, for whom "fun samples and backmasking" is half the appeal of BoC, it does take it into blandish territory. but I can see why a lot of people have no need for all that jiggery-pokery and want to hear a cleaner, more unadulterated BoC

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Thursday, 4 June 2026 09:25 (five days ago)

"slow this bird down" might be my favorite track of theirs. incredible yet understated feat of sound design

― ciderpress, Thursday, 4 June 2026 13:31 (five days ago)

there are moments when this album hits just right

― Cod:Shellfish (emsworth), Thursday, 4 June 2026 21:11 (five days ago)

This album had the TUNES

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 4 June 2026 21:16 (five days ago)

A supremely comforting summertime album for lying in semi-shaded grass, took me literally decades to appreciate

― brimstead, Thursday, 4 June 2026 21:33 (five days ago)

ciderpress be sure to check out their remix of Beck’s “Broken Drum”, very much cut from the same cloth as “Bird”

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 4 June 2026 21:59 (five days ago)

A post I fondly think of from this thread is (re: Oscar See Through Red Eye) “Yes, it doesn’t ‘really go anywhere’ because its already there!” I’ve stolen it many times over the years.

― orifex, Thursday, 4 June 2026 22:06 (five days ago)

bit of a constants are changing head myself

― anza808, Thursday, 4 June 2026 22:44 (five days ago)

my fave boc easy

― ivy., Thursday, 4 June 2026 23:49 (five days ago)

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