Boards of Canada

Geogaddi

I like the salad fingers feature at track 3

Boards Of Canada's second studio album is inherently a standout opus in their discography. 'Geogaddi' is full of funny samples, weird and frightening IDM sounds.

Their landmark 'Music Has the Right to Children' didn’t give the group bottom-up prop. Boards of Canada went even further. Having created their new splendor in the history of IDM, unlike some of their brothers, the guys were not going to make their album based on the lush noise. 'Geogaddi', on the contrary, resembles a turn of ... read more

While it sounds familiar to the preceding 'Music Has The Right To Children' 'Geogaddi' takes a different direction stylistically and tone-wise. Themes presented here are more disturbing and thought-provoking, while MHTRTC explores themes relating to adolescence and nostalgia (hence the title of the record). The band were in the middle of making Geogaddi when the horrific events of 9/11 inspired them to explore more dark themes (The Devil Is In The Details is pretty fucked up yeah?) While I ... read more

In the 8 or so years that I've been into Boards of Canada, I've never seemed to have been able to reach a high level of appreciation for Geogaddi as a whole. I respect it as an impressive follow-up to their debut, but it's also a record that I'm rarely, if ever, willing to listen to from front to back. It's their longest album to date, and more often than not it certainly feels that way.

My main criticism is that there are just simply too many interludes. As a matter of fact, close to half of ... read more