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All the mystery and magic and all this kind of nonsense that built up around the last record got to a point where it was just silly. People were understanding things from our music that we didn’t put in there and were saying there was an evil undercurrent to everything. And we are not like that at all. It was a theme that we wanted to persue on that record but people have understood from that that we always put secret, dark, sinister, and satanic things in our music. And that became more important than the music itself.

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After a few failed attempts at reviewing the real deal, we’ve been able to authenticate this recording as genuine bona-fide. You can listen to previews at Warp’s music shop Bleep.

This new album introduces stringed instrument samples into the sound chest. Violins and guitars acoustic and electric nestle into the familiar and beloved music mesh aesthetic of Boards of Canada, creating the distinctive sound of Headphase. Surprisingly, it’s hard to find a break-out track on this record, a stand-out, rather accessible track that might garner some more listeners. Instead of delivering any sing-alongs, the Boards offers us highly nuanced sound collages and deeply melancholic sound structures.

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Nevermind our earlier review of a forged copy of Boards of Canada’s eagerly anticipated The Campfire Headphase. I came across an authenticated leak copy today.

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Forgeries circulate for new BoC album

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Update: This review originated as an accidental response to a forgery release that has been circulating on the file sharing networks since the track listing was released by Warp records. It was shortly retracted. The album was passed on to me as an MP3 CD from a close associate with an understanding of how much [...]

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