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The Campfire Headphase
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0801061012328
Label: Warp Records
Manufacturer: Warp Records
MPN: 123
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warp Records
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Studio: Warp Records
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Editorial Review:
This Scottish duo's third album is their most shoegazer-y and gorgeous. For the first time, acoustic and electric instruments intrude on their landscape, which brings them closer to the work of artists like Four Tet and M83. But there's an intricacy to their beats and a strange, underwater quality to their samples that's strictly BoC. It's weird woozy music that's lovely and alien. "Dayvan Cowboy,"for instance, is a slow-paced bit of moody psychedelia; the drums don't even kick in until two thirds of the way through. The hypnotic, analog synth-driven "Farewell Fire"sounds like some lost tune by space-kraut pioneers Cluster. This is music you listen to when drugs don't work anymore; it's more reliable and a whole lot cheaper besides. "Oscar See Through Red Eye,"one of the more percussive songs, is perfect for languid late night dancing, but most of the album is sublimely made for the bean bag chairs. --Mike McGonigal
One of the world's most revered and mysterious electronic acts, Boards of Canada re-emerge from the ether with "The Campfire Headphase" their first album since 2002's mystic "Geogaddi". "The Campfire Headphase" will satiate the groups massive, rabid fanbase. This is classic Boards of Canada touched with acid-drenched folk music, atmospheric dissonance, deceptively tough alien beats and mindbending melodic creations.
Japanese pressing includes the bonus track 'From One Source All Things Depend'. Campfire Headphase is Boards Of Canada first release since 2002's Geogaddi! The album is very much classic Boards, building on themes and sounds that can be heard in their intervening remix work for Beck, Clouddead and Boom Bip. 16 tracks. Beat Records. 2005.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Through the Red Eye
I first picked up on BOC in 2/2002. Geogaddi is the album that did it for me. Perhaps I've had a different experience than many long-time BOC fans, but I thought Campfire was pretty decent. I picked up MHTRTC about 5 years after the fact and have loved it ever since.
For me, 'Dayvan Cowboy' was actually one of my least favorite tracks on the disc. I think many people might be looking for more beat-populated songs and faster paces, as many didn't like this album.
Boards always ... Read More
Rating: - brilliant!
a fresh direction for a sublime outfit that is BOC.
More nostalgic and dreamy as ever, you can't possibly
rate this album under 5 stars. All who do are fools!
Rating: - Not a child, or a teenager, but brilliant nonetheless...
I've been listening to the new Boards of Canada album, and while I love it, my feelings and thoughts are somewhat mixed.
While on many levels, it's their strongest work to date - breaking out of the more artificial background of groundbreaking electronica that was their first and previous albums, the guitar/acoustic-based approach to IDM is truly the absolute best possible direction they could have contemplated going-
at a time when many, like myself, grow to resent the somewhat hollow artifice ... Read More
Rating:  - The Campfire Headphase & the polar extremes.
Boards of Canada's new album. Though out in 2005, I'm writing the review now, when it's nearly 2008.
As I scanned through the reviews of this album I saw two things: "THIS ALBUM IS HORRIBLE AND BORING" and "NUH-UH THIS ALBUM IS GREAT THEY'RE DOING ROCK EXPERIMENTS."
Wow, what a contrast. The first thing I would like to point out is that the only new ground BoC is covering on this album is the addition of a guitar. Other than that... I notice no real difference in style, aside from ... Read More
Rating: - Infinite Nostalgia
I love this album so much....the music takes me back to my childhood and reflect on old times. I listen to all their albums quite often. Music is very original and well done. Anyone can appreciate these albums. Check them out if you'd like to escape the everyday crap you hear on radio and TV.
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