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Boards of Canada Announce New Album, Remix cLOUDDEAD

Goateed hipsters across the land execute simultaneous chai spit-takes on coffeeshop backgammon boards
[Posted Thursday, November 6th, 2003 02:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Brian Howe reports:
In the course of human history, events sometimes transpire that are so momentous, so all-encompassing in scope and ponderous in implication that we are compelled to report them immediately and render them up into the reservoir of hipster consciousness that sustains us all-- even when there is precious little information to convey. This, comrades, is one of those moments.

According to Boards of Canada's Music70.com website-- not their official website, which, in lieu of information, features a weird union between the point-and-click excitement of Myst and the charmingly low-key execution of a Newgrounds.com game (without all the hyper-offensive suicide bombing /school shooting /donkey punch Britney Spears stuff)-- these most felicitous blenders of post-rock drama and IDM glitchery will release their first new studio album since Geogaddi in 2004.

That's pretty much the long and short of it, folks. There is no extant title or tracklist, and no indication of whether the album will be released by Warp (who make no mention of the album on their official site), no intriguing innuendo regarding bold new stylistic directions. For all we know, the Boards might be recording a two-step garage record this time around, with a limited-edition first pressing packaged in the hand-stitched, die-cut skin of white neo-liberals.

This "story," if a one-sentence announcement followed by a cryptic remark about leap years (we'll get to that presently) can be rightly construed as such, was quickly picked up by electronic music resource We Are the Music Makers. WATMM claims that a UK source has informed them that several press releases have pegged the album for a February debut. This supposition is strengthened by the observation on Music70 site that states, sans context, that 2004 is a leap year. Further wild conjecture has led to WATMM's consensus opinion that Boards of Canada are planning to release the album on February 29th, the leap day. Of course, this is impure speculation; Boards of Canada might just as well be reminding us that we have an extra day to pay the rent in February. I'll suggest a working title: Red Herring. Keep checking back as we sort through these and other varicolored fish, in our quest for more concrete information.

In more tenable news (also courtesy of Music70.com), the Boards have collaborated with Mush Records /Big Dada /Anticon associates cLOUDDEAD on an "ultra-psychedelic" alternate version of cLOUDDEAD's upcoming single "Dead Dogs Two." The original version of the single will be on cLOUDDEAD's next album, Ten, which will be released in January of the looming leap year. The Boards of Canada remix will appear on the "Dead Dogs Two" twelve-inch, out January 27th on Mush in the U.S., a day earlier on Big Dada in the UK.

.: Pitchfork Review: Boards of Canada: Geogaddi
.: Pitchfork Review: Boards of Canada: Twoism
.: Boards of Canada: http://www.boardsofcanada.com
.: We Are the Music Makers: http://www.watmm.com
.: Music70: http://www.music70.com

and Chris Clarke has an album out too
I've read that it sounds very BOC-like
one journalist even thought that he was the third man of BOC in their starting days...

so is this a new album or a remix album?

speaking of BOC... my roommate found a copy of their hi-scores ep at a record store last weekend... we were just looking throught the vinyl and i noticed the plain grey sleeve with boards of canada written across it and nothing aside from the label name on the back... i couldn't afford it so he took the chance... we damn near pee-ed our pants when we realised what it was hehehe...

well, the original doesn't really go for much these days because originally it was only pressed as 3000 (7000 in cd format), but i picked up the re-release when it came off of skam about a year a half ago...it would be great to have, but unfortunately, it's not worth all that much anymore...

and to say "the third member of BOC" is a bit out there, the 3rd member, well one who worked with them on "Twoism", actually performs under the name of "Christ" and has put out the Pylonesque EP and Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle on Benacabula (sp?), and both are great pieces of work...

well I just wanted to say that this Christ has a new album out, I thought that might interest you

yes, didn't I just mention it in the previous post? "Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle" ???

yeah we don't really collect music for value... we were just excited at finding the ep... hehehe

yeah, and this is suppose to be an actual album...

do you think they can top Music has the right to children?

never...that was "their sound" and people always refer back to that album as being one of their faves, or the starting point of listening to that style of music...if they were to change styles a bit, possibly, but I doubt it. Geogaddi was a disappointment to me, but I still have a copy of it because I do like listening to it from time to time...In a Beautiful Place out in the Country is probably their most underrated album, even tho it is just an EP, I find it to be my favorite behind MHTRTC.