The Campfire Headphase

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The Campfire Headphase
Boards of Canada studio album

Publication
(s)

October 2005

admission

2002 to 2005

Label (s) Warp Records

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

electronic music
IDM
ambient
trip-hop

Title (number)

15
16 (Japan version)

running time

62:05

production

Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin

Studio (s)

Hexagon Sun Studios , Pentland Hills , Scotland

chronology
Geogaddi (2002) The Campfire Headphase Trans Canada Highway
2006

The Campfire Headphase (German: Die Lagerfeuer-Kopfphase) is the fourth album by the Scottish electro duo Boards of Canada . It was released on Warp Records in October 2005 .

The Campfire Headphase focuses primarily on the heavily manipulated sounds of acoustic guitars and uses more conventional song structures. It took the duo three years to produce the album.

concept

In an interview with Remix magazine in December 2007, BoC member Michael Sandison spoke about the concept of the album:

“We usually imagine our music to have a visual element while we're writing it, so we were picturing this character losing his mind at the campfire and compressing weeks of events into a few hours, in that time-stretching way that acid fucks with your perception. "

“We tend to think that our music has a visual element as we write it. So we imagine this character sitting by the campfire losing his mind and compressing weeks of events into a few hours. In the time-warping way that acid changes your perception. "

- Michael Sandison, Boards of Canada
Kittinger in the world record parachute jump out of the open balloon

Publications

The track "Oscar See through Red Eye" was digitally released on September 5th, 2005 by Bleep.com , an online shop of Warp Records . The track "Dayvan Cowboy" followed on October 4th, 2005 via iTunes .

In April 2006, a music video for the song "Dayvan Cowboy" was posted on the Warp website. The video includes footage of Joe Kittinger's infamous world record parachute jump , who jumped from an altitude balloon from a height of 31.3 km. It is replaced by slow-motion shots of the surfer Laird Hamilton . The video was directed by Melissa Olson.

reception

The reactions to the album were mixed.

Pitchfork Media awarded the album 7.6 out of 10 points. But other critics also knew points of criticism. This is how John Bush writes at allmusic on the occasion of the award of 3.5 out of 5 stars to the album:

"The Campfire Headphase lacks the transcendent grace that made Music Has the Right to Children and even Geogaddi classics in their field. Working the same territory over and over again may have improved their touch, but it has assuredly stifled their innovative powers. "

“ The Campfire Headphase lacks the transcendental dignity that made Music Has the Right to Children and even Geogaddi classics. Plowing the same area over and over again may make your job even better, but your innovative strength is certainly more rigid. "

- John Bush, allmusic

This criticism led the Guardian , which gave it 3 out of 5 stars, to the question:

"Fans will be pleased that they can now have the real thing, but will they think it's been worth the wait?"

"Fans will be happy to have the real album now, but will they think it was worth the wait?"

- John Burgess, The Guardian

Track list

All titles from Boards of Canada.

  1. Into the Rainbow Vein - 0.44
  2. Chromakey Dreamcoat - 5.47
  3. Satellite Anthem Icarus - April 6th
  4. Peacock Tail - April 6th
  5. Dayvan Cowboy - 5.00
  6. A moment of clarity - 0.51
  7. 84 Pontiac Dream - 3.49
  8. Sherbert Head - 2.41
  9. Oscar See Through Red Eye - 5.08
  10. Ataron Chronon - 1.14
  11. Hey Saturday Sun - 4.56
  12. Constants Are Changing - 1.42
  13. Slow This Bird Down - 6.09
  14. Tears from the Compound Eye - 4.03
  15. Farewell Fire - 8.26
Bonus track of the Japan version:
16. Macquarie Ridge - 4.57

swell

  1. ↑ Hutton, Erin. " Emotional ABUSE ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. " (Dec 2005), Remix magazine . Retrieved February 20, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / remixmag.com
  2. ↑ Steve Marchese: Sky's the Limit . RES Media Group. 2006. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved November 25, 2006.
  3. ↑ Review at Pitchfork Media
  4. ^ The Campfire Headphase review
  5. ^ John Burgess: The Campfire Headphase

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