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Boards Of Canada
Geogaddi
A1
Ready Lets Go
A2
Music Is Math
A3
Beware The Friendly Stranger
A4
Gyroscope
A5
Dandelion
B1
Sunshine Recorder
B2
In The Annexe
B3
Julie And Candy
B4
The Smallest Weird Number
C1
1969
C2
Energy Warning
C3
The Beach At Redpoint
C4
Opening The Mouth
D1
Alpha And Omega
D2
I Saw Drones
D3
The Devil Is In The Details
D4
A Is To B As B Is To C
D5
Over The Horizon Radar
E1
Dawn Chorus
E2
Diving Station
E3
You Could Feel The Sky
E4
Corsair
F
Magic Window
Warp Records (warplp101r)
Music70 (warplp101r)
Release date: Oct 21, 2013, UK
"If 1998’s ‘Music Had The Right The Children’ beguiled in its naivety, with voices of playing children ringing from some half-remembered time, ‘Geogaddi’, released four years later, unearthed a more sinister dread from the palette which had made Boards of Canada’s first album such vital listening. Embedded in the motifs of the album’s 23 tracks seemed a foreboding sense of coming apocalypse which drew strongly from the electronic dystopia of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radioactivity’.
The vocoded refrain of ‘1969 in the sunshine’ on ‘1969’ framed a sense of wide-eyed optimism within a subtly ominous landscape of nauseous synths and hazy hip-hop percussion, while tracks like ‘Energy Warning’ and ‘Beware the Friendly Stranger’ provided moments of severe, troubling forecast which were situated as much within contemporary fears as the Cold War subject matter from which the album took its cue. ‘Music is Math’ remains a highlight of the Boards canon in its perfectly rendered woozy synths, and nagging BBC vocal sample, with percussion that could encourage a dancefloor whilst subtly troubling it, and ‘the Devil is in the Details’ hinted at the deeply layered satanic codes which many committed fans were convinced they had unearthed. ‘Geogaddi’ continues to be an alluring piece of the Boards of the Canada puzzle, which cemented their already unique sound even as it undermined its optimism."
3LP / Warp Records