Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

[Caprice]

I heard a decent amount about them before i could drive and then i forgot about them. I found this album in the library the other day, checked it out, and here i am now. I like it a lot, and i have read it isn't even that good (compared to their earlier material).

digame, what is the dirty take?

[dubman]

i think the deal was that while the critical masses eventually found their warp debut, it was really when geogaddi hit that people got really into it and their sound became "known." so when this album came out it was no longer a revelatory sound for these people and it was kind of their inexplicable quality that made people like them so much.
i think the truth is that this album gets a bad rep. i keep revisiting it and it's at least better than "music has a right" which i think is grossly overrated, and probably better than geogaddi, even though both have their glaring weak spots (parts of headphase seem a little forced, geogaddi can get really cheesy). i think whatever album you find them with is going to be your favorite one, while the others dont *quite* measure up.

one thing i think all BoC fans can agree on, is that "in a beautiful place out in the country" is a fantastic ep.

[Leon]

I love Boards Of Canada, I can get lost in their sound.

Telephasic Workshop is such a gorgeous song.


And Caprice, also try to find the remix they did for "Broken Drum" by Beck, it's an amazing song.

[viddy]

For me, as a major fan of BOC, like many others I had high expectations from all of their previous material, and the campfire headphase didn't quite deliver. It was a tough spot for them to be in. I think "Satellite Anthem Icarus" is my favorite song on the album still. I like most of the other trax on the album, they just don't feel as "deep" as their older material did, where I felt like their songs just reached inside me and touched a very weird, unique little thing inside me that no one else can seem to touch.

I my favorite tracks of theirs are still "Music is Math" and "Everything You Do Is A Balloon".

[mmm skyscraper]

it's a slow burner

the voices at the end of Chromakey Dreamcoat come from here:

http://www.archive.org/details/social_seminar_tom

at around 10:00 into the film.

supposedly the Stephen J. Cannell logo music is played somewhere on the album.

and the new Solange album samples 'Slow This Bird Down' on the song 'This Bird'

[Cadevil]

The Hi Scores EP is especially interesting.

BoC is all about being in the mood to listen to them.

[mmm skyscraper]

Solange - This Bird

weirdness

[viddy]

Originally Posted by mmm skyscraper

Solange - This Bird

weirdness

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The way the mix is now, it literally just sounds like someone slapped the vocals on top.....which they did. It would be better if I could hear the music a bit more, to blend with the vocals better. I would also like the vocals to be more in key with the music as well.

Feels kinda slapped together.

[holden]

Overhyped. Music Has the Right to Children was fresh and new, but they've been doing the same thing on subsequent albums. yes, geogaddi was more subliminal and darker in tone, while Campfire and the EPs were cheerier, it all sounds sort of the same to me...squishy beats, drones and backtracking, cool in moderation, not over and over again. Just my two cents. That, plus the fact that their tunes make me feel creepy and manipulated, but not in a good way

[Future Proof]

Originally Posted by mmm skyscraper

Solange - This Bird

weirdness

I really hate this. Kinda sad that someone in BoC's camp signed off on this, really irritated by the song title, and profusely aggro over the fact that the track producer did absolutely nothing to the track. I suppose in a way it's a compliment that the track made the album virtually unchanged from it's original format but come on now, it's a flagrant rip-off.

I really thought, when I first heard that BoC was going to be sampled that this could be a really forward-thinking album. Guess I was wrong.