[92 -> 97]
[92] Expect my score to change in the future, because I'm going to have to listen to this album a lot more over the coming weeks. As of now, I know it's phenomenal. I'm just not sure HOW phenomenal it is.
[97] The simulation runs on sound. Clear sound. Distorted sound. Sound of the future. Sound of the past. Sound of the future of the past, and sound of the future shaped into sound of the past.
The simulation runs on desire. Desire for a time when you could ... read more
Nothing like some no-nonsense post-punk to wake you up in the morning.
Three decades later, Boards of Canada still manage to haunt and enchant at the same time. Out of this world and out of this time, "Inferno" is lush with new sounds and melodies, whilst still packaged in that familiar nostalgic sheen. As the coming Summer drags on, I can see myself retreating more and more often into this cryptic world of mysterious whisperings and brooding electronics.
Before listening to "Inferno", I felt it was only right to first familiarise myself with Boards of Canada's catalogue a little. And so I stumbled into this world of hypnotisms; an endless trance of malformed memory. By modern standards, the duo's approach to technological music may seem a little too minimalist, but it's the starkness that makes each note and each sound stand out. It's what makes "Music Has the Right to Children" so achingly nostalgic: its ... read more
feeble little horse have managed to carve out their own niche of Indie Rock: bitcrushed and disorientating, yet still familiar.