The Campfire Headphase

The Campfire Headphase

ASIN: B000AP2ZQC

Editorial Reviews
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This Scottish duo's third album is their most shoegazer-y and gorgeous. For the first time, acoustic and electric instruments intrude on their landscape, which brings them closer to the work of artists like Four Tet and M83. But there's an intricacy to their beats and a strange, underwater quality to their samples that's strictly BoC. It's weird woozy music that's lovely and alien. "Dayvan Cowboy,"for instance, is a slow-paced bit of moody psychedelia; the drums don't even kick in until two thirds of the way through. The hypnotic, analog synth-driven "Farewell Fire"sounds like some lost tune by space-kraut pioneers Cluster. This is music you listen to when drugs don't work anymore; it's more reliable and a whole lot cheaper besides. "Oscar See Through Red Eye,"one of the more percussive songs, is perfect for languid late night dancing, but most of the album is sublimely made for the bean bag chairs. --Mike McGonigal

Product Description
One of the world's most revered and mysterious electronic acts, Boards of Canada re-emerge from the ether with "The Campfire Headphase" their first album since 2002's mystic "Geogaddi". "The Campfire Headphase" will satiate the groups massive, rabid fanbase. This is classic Boards of Canada touched with acid-drenched folk music, atmospheric dissonance, deceptively tough alien beats and mindbending melodic creations.

Tracks:

Into the Rainbow Vein
Chromakey Dreamcoat
Satellite Anthem Icarus
Peacock Tail
Dayvan Cowboy
A Moment of Clarity
'84 Pontiac Dream
Sherbet Head
Oscar See Through Red Eye
Ataronchronon
Hey Saturday Sun
Constants Are Changing
Slow This Bird Down
Tears From the Compound Eye
Farewell Fire

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This Scottish duo's third album is their most shoegazer-y and gorgeous. For the first time, acoustic and electric instruments intrude on their landscape, which brings them closer to the work of artists like Four Tet and M83. But there's an intricacy to their beats and a strange, underwater quality to their samples that's strictly BoC. It's weird woozy music that's lovely and alien. "Dayvan Cowboy,"for instance, is a slow-paced bit of moody psychedelia; the drums don't even kick in until two thirds of the way through. The hypnotic, analog synth-driven "Farewell Fire"sounds like some lost tune by space-kraut pioneers Cluster. This is music you listen to when drugs don't work anymore; it's more reliable and a whole lot cheaper besides. "Oscar See Through Red Eye,"one of the more percussive songs, is perfect for languid late night dancing, but most of the album is sublimely made for the bean bag chairs. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

One of the world's most revered and mysterious electronic acts, Boards of Canada re-emerge from the ether with "The Campfire Headphase" their first album since 2002's mystic "Geogaddi". "The Campfire Headphase" will satiate the groups massive, rabid fanbase. This is classic Boards of Canada touched with acid-drenched folk music, atmospheric dissonance, deceptively tough alien beats and mindbending melodic creations.

Customer Reviews:

Not understanding other reviewers here.......2007-03-10

I don't see where the addition of guitars into BoC's music is a bad thing. At all. I don't think it adds or dectracts from their style. I like it. I have listened to most of their other songs, and this is just another really great album. Boards of Canada are one of the best bands ever. They have managed to take their darker emotions and turn them into something staggeringly beautiful. I don't think there is another band that does that.

Their best. More music, less noise. .......2007-03-09

I think this is the best the boys have put out. The songs all have melodies and structures, where some of the previous material had drums and a lot of noise.

Keep it up!

takes you away.......2007-03-08

I had no idea what this group was like but I like the feel to it.

Remote Music.......2007-03-02

This is not music you listen to; it is music you HEAR. It doesn't emanate from your player or radio, it comes from (& covers) the WORLD, and ALL WORLDS. And it is not "with" you, but rather ALL AROUND you. Even if shipwrecked in treeless Nome, Alaska, Saturday Sun can permeate the Rainbow Vein, and Constants are always Changing, even if for a brief period of time.

After a few playings, these pieces pay pleasant visitations to your psyche, your immediate environment, your soul. Witness the dawn and the subsequent sunrise, and Satellite Anthem Icarus will rise along with. Watch the dusk, and then the moonrise, and the Tears from the Compound Eye shed an unearthly cascade into the environment. When caught in a traffic jam, dream of Peacock Tails & then the Dayvan Cowboy rides by freely, without being summoned. During a thunderstorm, or an argument at work, or even a party, visions from Oscar See-Through Red Eye combine reality with fantasy, with a sudden but not rude awakening. And after a church service, Farewell Fire quietly flares up, then almost as unnoticeably fades away. Can't Slow This Bird Down, since it is always both ahead of you & behind you simultaneously.

This disk has to be played at higher volume, since the music is multi-textural and the fadeouts are gradual & lengthy. The final selection begins fading only halfway through, and it is 8 minutes plus! (Turn it up then to introduce a Mobius strip of denouement). Since the melodies are the aura of the music, while the instrumentation is the body, the sounds connect with the notes. Like, the Chromakey Dreamcoat fabric is woven with that banjo-like guitar; other instrumentation would alter its identity directly.

Good remote companions for the player in your head & the campfires of your awareness, and a critical chapter in the Boards' fine work. And it COULDN'T BE ANY BETTER.

Pure Genius.......2007-02-11

Boards of Canada is one of those few gems of complete originality that exists in the music world today. Their music is hauntingly emotive, and appeals to those that don't normally listen to electronic music. They have an uncanny way of elucidating a sense of nostalgia from the listener that trancends normal longing for the past and borders on some sort of psychic time travel into a past you may not even have had. A visionary work...this is my favorite of all their albums, but other listeners clearly prefer others. I think this is because each album is unique in its exploration of your memories, and you need to find the one that resonates with you. I like this one based on the strings. The prior album to this is more solid and deep electronica.

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The Campfire Headphase
Boards of Canada
Manufacturer: Warp Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Into the Rainbow Vein
Chromakey Dreamcoat
Satelite Anthem Icarus
Peacock Tail
Dayvan Cowboy
Moment of Clarity
'84 Pontiac Dream
Sherbet Head
Oscar See Through Red Eye
Ataronchronon
Hey Saturday Sun
Constants Are Changing
Slow This Bird Down
Tears from the Compound Eye
Farewell Fire

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A view from the far side
aural.

Campfire Headphase

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B000BB6JHQ
Release Date: 2005-10-18

Album Description

Japanese pressing includes the bonus track 'From One Source All Things Depend'. Campfire Headphase is Boards Of Canada first release since 2002's Geogaddi! The album is very much classic Boards, building on themes and sounds that can be heard in their intervening remix work for Beck, Clouddead and Boom Bip. 16 tracks. Beat Records. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

A view from the far side.......2006-11-07

Having listened to much of this bands past output, this would be their most tuneful, accessible and interesting to date. The bonus track available on the Japanese version is also woth the extra few yen. If you imagine being transported to frozen tundra under perma-sunset or aurora borealis, this comes close to the experience of listening to BOC. It's rare that a review accurately describes a band when using the term 'unique' but this is precise when applied to BOC; no one else does anything close to what they do. Buy it, at least to observe the beauty of the remote outer reaches of electronica.

aural........2006-01-06

The only reason I didn't give this album 5 stars is that it is not, with all due respect, a PERFECT album. This version (which I take is the Japanese Version) of The Campfire Headphase is amazing. I think it holds much more emotion, is more ethereal, and the songs are ultimately more beautiful then the English version.

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