Flying Nun Records 119 views   4 clicks Claim this Business♡

"It's vintage Boards Of Canada --a beautiful, shimmering, electronic maelstrom of liquid, vintage synths and slo-mo beats." - Mojo Magazine"Going back to their 1998 debut Music Has the Right to Children , Boards of Canada have always been rooted in the familiar, albeit in small chunks to prevent pig...

Forget everything you ever thought was dull or ponderous about ambient music, as Boards of Canada return like Greek heroes -- unbound from a genre that often sounds like a washing machine begging for a swift kick. Boards of Canada traced a disturbed childhood in the arctic, austere Music Has the Rig...

A mini-concept LP, Trans Canada Highway follows the Scottish brothers (who spent time in Canada) as they trek from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, B.C., in under a half-hour. Beginning with the only old track, "Dayvan Cowboy" (a highlight of 2005's The Campfire Headphase), Michael Sandison an...

Three years after the dense and complex Geogaddi , Boards of Canada return with a contrasting work that provides a more staightforward, enveloping and contemplative listening experience.The Campfire Headphase reconfigured Boards of Canada's entrancing and idiosyncratic sound in the wake of two criti...

" Geogaddi , the most anticipated sophomore full-length from an IDM act since Aphex Twin's SAW 2 in 1994, certainly looks and feels similar to the 1998 Boards of Canada debut, Music Has the Right to Children. The package design includes artful, bleached-out photos of children playing, while the leng...

Twoism is the first EP released by Boards of Canada, on their own Music70 record label in 1995. It was a self-financed cassette and record distributed privately. Major public releases would not happen until 1996's Hi Scores EP on Skam Records. This EP was, however, the work which got them noticed by...

Sometimes an album is so good and makes its case so flawlessly that it spawns a mini-genre of its own and becomes shorthand for a prescribed set of values. The Velvet Underground's third album, My Bloody Valentines's Loveless and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew spring to mind. It's not a long list, but so...