Tape 05

[2026]

Boards Of Canada - Tape 05

Gotta say, sounds better than anything on the last record which was pretty disappointing. Tape 05 isn't so much the idyllic or even deliciously eerie Boards Of Canada sound, it's more on the ominous tip and then there's a harp! There's even a hint of a post-rock vibe here as well as an anthemic quality. I kinda don't even wanna contribute anything to the discourse because just shut up everyone, I hate all your dumb and boring opinions and speculations and theories and lame youtube channels. Sometimes I think half these twits are just marketing nerds in it for the obscure advertising campaigns... 

In 1998 they were my private group. Maybe I want it to be just like it was in 1998 when my mate, an electronic music fan, a so called aficionado, didn't even care or buy the cd after I told him it was the best album of the year. Simon Reynolds didn't even review it. I wasn't ever on the bloody internet so I was oblivious as to whether dorks were on there talking about it or not on their message boards and what not... so Music Has The Right To Children was my private little joy. It was just me, my discman and the memory-delic oscillating off-pitch yet glinting analogue synths and hypnotic beats of Boards Of Canada. 

Smokes Quantity [1998]

My malfunctioning brain trying to conjure meaningful long lost memories but only getting nostalgic glimpses of a sci-fi wildlife documentary from the 70s I probably didn't star in as a child then again...