Boards of Canada

The Campfire Headphase

Boards Of Canada’s 3rd studio album: The Campfire Headphase, sees the band steering their sound in an interesting new direction. This album is less electronic than their previous work, focusing on more organic instrumentation with warm guitar melodies often being the backbone of tracks like Chromakey Dreamcoat, Dayvan Cowboy, and Hey Saturday Sun.

This album is a lot more meditative and relaxing. Gone are some of the dense and cold instrumentals and production that were so prevalent on ... read more

The colours dilute the image into a mysterious mesh of feeling.

I am incredibly disappointed that The Campfire Headphase is not regarded as one of the crucial pieces of music, and that it has not been consistently taken up as a source of inspiration by young new musicians. To me, this style of music, this magnificent mixture of downtempo, folk and IDM, should have spawned another genre like jazz. A genre that revels in free experimentation, the communication of feelings and the creative use ... read more

Amazing

I think it's obvious at this point that the Scottish duo Boards of Canada are my favourite group since their notorious 2002 album Geogaddi is my all-time favourite record.

The Campfire Headphase is their 3rd album, which released in October 2005.

It had been in the works from 2001-2004; their intention was to "simultaneously shift and reduce the sound palette, making it more like a conventional band gone over the edge."

This results in a less samples, vocals and cryptic references ... read more