The futuristic seventies aesthetics which in many ways is Boards of Canada

In April, during this year's Record Store Day - a kind of international matchday for independent dream analysis record parlors - stumbled an exceptionally lucky american over a release dream analysis of rather sensational dream analysis proportions. dream analysis Among plate shelves at Other Music in New York found namely our American friend, a pressure fresh twelve inches of Boards of Canada - a mysterious Scottish brødreduo it has stood silent around since dropping the full length The Campfire Head Phase, dream analysis released nearly eight years ago.
Now was not this vinyl album itself some sensation. It contained only one spoken of numbers of six digits. But here began the infamous ball rolling and over the next few weeks would sporadically appear, new combinations of numbers as the geeky fanbase finally managed to put together the revelations that the fourth Boards of Canada album was finally ready. To follow this abnormal promo campaign dream analysis has gotten it to tingle in my stomach more than once; this is the first time in too long that I've really been excited about an album release.
Exactly what makes the Scottish brothers duo brilliantly is as much about aesthetics as originality. For example hangs Brian Enos pioneer work droning electronic music high above them, while the most obvious source dream analysis of inspiration is Aphex Twins experimental approach to club music - also known under the idiotic genre term IDM ("intelligent dance music", that is).
Have however heard the classic album debut Music Has Right To Children (1998) or EP In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (2000), we understand that brothers pair Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin possesses a unique ability to add melodies, dream analysis humanity and completeness a genre that does not necessarily dream analysis oozes these items. And perhaps it is precisely why Boards of Canada still inspires and remains relevant today - in spite of that horrible much else has happened in 15 years.
Compared with the haunting dream analysis nostalgia on the debut, the more polished expression on the sequel Geogaddi (2002) and the closest pensioner friendly availability (meant in the very best sense) The Campfire Head Phase (2005), displays Tomorrow's Harvest duo from their most melancholy pages. Some fans have called them uninspired; I think they rather seem disillusioned, as confirmed by song tittles "Cold Earth", "Sick Times" and "Reach For The Dead". You must expect to spend much time with the album to get it properly under the skin. But it's worth it.
However, one can track multiple flashes behind the pale winter and grim facade. Continued driven soundscape mostly ahead of their warm and soulful analogue synth chords, while several of the highlights are those who manage to glimpse light at the end of the tunnel, as organic "New Seeds" and "Nothing Is Real" - both of which seem to pick up a kind of thread from the debut album. For Tomorrow's Harvest may seem like a kind of evil twin to the expression on his debut. dream analysis
The futuristic seventies aesthetics which in many ways is Boards of Canada's dream analysis signature, dream analysis pushed namely into some occasionally quite unpleasant and horror-like recesses - including the single "Reach For The Dead" and several of småsporene ("Uritual", "Gemini" and "White Syclosa "), but especially dream analysis on the final drone piece" Semena Mertvykh "(Russian for" the dead seed "). Here avoids not escape a physical sensation of gaze a large deserted landscape produced by a nuclear war or other manmade cruelty. It is undoubtedly one of the least merciful pieces of music you will hear in a while.
Despite syncopated "Jacquard Causeway" manages to keep the interest of stalling six minutes, and that beat heavy "Sick Times" and "Come To Dust" carries symphonic certain qualities, valleys interest halfway through Tomorrow's Harvest only weak spots. dream analysis Where "Palace Posy" is monotonous bordering on the annoying, characterized sci-fiaktige "Split Your Infinite" of the opposite, where it is too volatile to be able to make tracks. Unfortunately.
For Boards of Canada tries apparently with Tomorrow's Harvest putting music to a dystopian but not inconceivable future - I interpret at least the album title as a concern. And it is far from something you experience every day with a electronikaskive surrendering the headphones. Maybe just once every eight years, even.
Good album, but more hushed as he writes. Less melody, more atmospheric. Do not do anything, all the albums need not be just pretty, we Marconi Union and Ulrich Schnauss to it now and BoC makes gloomy and deserted better.
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