![]() The most incredible thing about Geogaddi is that you don’t hear the fucked up noises, bleeps, and blops that seem to characterize most ‘IDM’ releases these days. You’ll get soaked up, taken to another place, and be released after 66 minutes and 5 seconds of pure beauty. All winding up together to form an album full of beautiful, melancholic melodies. Instead of being the next fad in shouting angry lyrics over distorted guitars, they use their synthesizers, added with drumbeats and distorted children voices. As you have probably noticed, Boards of Canada don’t make nu-metal. They’re a duo, both in their early thirties, from Scotland, and they have released their latest full-length on the experimental Warp label. Too Much Information 320 kbps Maximo Park are pleased to announce their return early. Find this Pin and more on My Culture 2014. ![]() Strange Music Aphrodite Hamilton Special Guest Hollywood Decay Parks Youtube News Track. ‘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.īoards of Canada / Geogaddi / Warp Records. ‘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. ![]() 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. 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’. 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. ![]() Instant MP3 download with all Vinyl / CD purchases. ![]()
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