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i feel like honestly the appeal of this album lies purely in the performances. its such a passionately performed album. how lound and heavy the guitar strums, how jeff mangum sings. the horns. idk i feel like this album would be hard to cover. i think from a purely musical and compositional point of view i think it might be kind of basic but the level of passion and performance really makes this album.
What I take away most from this album are just these unrelenting, dissonant, mathy songs where the band just go full throttle for like 7+ minutes at a time. most of these songs are quite linear and dont have any sense of chorus or verse, which is not necessarily a bad thing at all. Like this album is so long and somehow just so densely packed. The interlude moments on this album (new intro for example) where the band ease up basically just sound like normal songs and not 10 minute long bricks ... read more
Boards of Canada takes quite an analog and organic approach to electronic music, taking the usual pallet of sharp, glitchy percussion, heavily kick drums, then pairing it with detuned synthesizers, heavily manipulated, robotized, other worldly/creepy vocal samples (listen to the track 1969 for the clearest example of this), as well as sounds and samples of nature and everyday life (water, birds, children laughing, train sounds, old television programs), all of these elements come together to ... read more
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