Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase

Three years ago Geogaddi was released. We loved it. Now BoC is back with The Campfire Headphase and it is exactly what I was hoping for, but also exactly what I was expecting. It is beautiful, peaceful, and grainy; a nice existentialist beach vacation. A familiar location; just the frame for your thoughts you were hoping for.

The album art invokes child hood vacations, and pictures of your parents when they were happy and you were small. The photos have taken a beating, they look weathered and loved on. Album production reflects the same attention, and I encourage the listener to absorb the album art before and while listening the first couple of times.

I wait for a new BoC album like few others, and I buy it w/o listening to a single sample. I trust these guys because they keep making the music I need for my other moods, and in that they have never disappointed. Let this album be a sound-track for the pre and post climactic moments in your story.

Stand-out tracks: None. The album is a whole and cohesive unit.

Not Available on Rhapsody, but available on Amazon