A masterpiece. That's all I have to say of this album. This was the first album I heard of Boards of Canada and it just changed my concept of music in a whole.
I give this one star for the effort of actually publishing this noise. I've listened to the whole album in its entirety and let me tell I give this one star for the effort of actually publishing this noise. I've listened to the whole album in its entirety and let me tell you, it was a battle! The only purpose I see for this album would be to put you to sleep, but I have a fan that does that well enough. If you found this album thought provoking, creative, or a masterpiece of any sort, do me a favor and lay off the drugs.…Expand
Overview
Boards Of Canada Geogaddi Reversed
The artistic nature of Scotsmen Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison, the pastoral ambient-psychedelicists who are Boards of Canada, is secretive, meticulous, and glowingly warm. They give few interviews, don't play live shows (they're not DJs), and release Whitman-meets-Satie proclamations on the world's beauty in limited vinyl editions. In the process, Boards have unwittingly cultivated a rabid fan base, who have been breathlessly anticipating a follow-up to their epochal 1998 debut, Music Has the Right to Children. Geogaddi, a crystalline 23-track sprawl, is quite worth the wait, cementing the duo's digi-log electronica aesthetic while moving their sound towards the pan-global techno-pop Xanadu of Björk and Timbaland. Their basic musical elements remain: filtered analog-synth melodies, crackly-wack hip-hop beats, and sampled voices of innocence, sometimes manipulated beyond comprehension. They're also still fond of composed fragments that are more couplets than full-blown stanzas. But when they do get to dreaming in long form -- this time with tablas and artificial gallops for rhythm beds -- the result is akin to a Ripley's natural phenomenon. And there, amid the rhythmic minimalism of the darkly cloudy 'Gyroscope,' the Arabic wistfulness that accompanies the keyboard trance of 'Alpha and Omega,' and the gamelan-infected ambient spirits of 'The Devil Is in the Details,' lies Boards of Canada's idealized terra nova. It is a wonderful place.