Walk towards the Campfire
Oh Happy Day!
At last we have some new Boards of Canada to sink our teeth into...
First of all, 'Oscar See Through Red Eye' is available from today as a high-quality download single from bleep.com. If you don't feel like you want to splash out the 99p on purchasing the track (it will appear on the album after all), you can, as usual on bleep, listen to it in 30 second pieces anyway. Which is kind of bearable as long as you hovver over the play button for the duration of the track.
I was also thrilled to find in my inbox this track from the forthcoming album!!!! :-D (Thank You!)
BOARDS OF CANADA - SATELLITE ANTHEM ICARUS
Both tracks tick all the right BOC-ses for me, with crunching beats, head-spinning melodies, the sounds of nature, and beautiful organic synths - all put together with incredible attention to detail. Out of the two i'm liking 'Satellite Anthem Icarus' most. I love the reverberating strings on that acoustic guitar, which sounds particularly beautiful combined with the water washing over it.
I do tend to prefer their more vocal tracks (like Aquarius, 1969, In A Beautiful Place in The Country etc...), and since these are both entirely instrumental it will be interesting to see what surprises the album has in store.... these two tasters have certainly tightened my excitement levels up a notch!
Hopefully there will be one or two numbers as magnificent as this recent remix of Beck, which has become one of my favourite tracks by the duo:
BECK - BROKEN DRUM (BOARDS OF CANADA REMIX)
At last we have some new Boards of Canada to sink our teeth into...
First of all, 'Oscar See Through Red Eye' is available from today as a high-quality download single from bleep.com. If you don't feel like you want to splash out the 99p on purchasing the track (it will appear on the album after all), you can, as usual on bleep, listen to it in 30 second pieces anyway. Which is kind of bearable as long as you hovver over the play button for the duration of the track.
I was also thrilled to find in my inbox this track from the forthcoming album!!!! :-D (Thank You!)
BOARDS OF CANADA - SATELLITE ANTHEM ICARUS
Both tracks tick all the right BOC-ses for me, with crunching beats, head-spinning melodies, the sounds of nature, and beautiful organic synths - all put together with incredible attention to detail. Out of the two i'm liking 'Satellite Anthem Icarus' most. I love the reverberating strings on that acoustic guitar, which sounds particularly beautiful combined with the water washing over it.
I do tend to prefer their more vocal tracks (like Aquarius, 1969, In A Beautiful Place in The Country etc...), and since these are both entirely instrumental it will be interesting to see what surprises the album has in store.... these two tasters have certainly tightened my excitement levels up a notch!
Hopefully there will be one or two numbers as magnificent as this recent remix of Beck, which has become one of my favourite tracks by the duo:
BECK - BROKEN DRUM (BOARDS OF CANADA REMIX)
posted by headphonesex @ 11:14 PM
