Boards of CanadaBest Boards of Canada Albums Ranked
7.9
Avg Score
17
Opinions
12
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 17 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Boards of Canada's catalog across 12 albums from 17 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated Boards of Canada album is Geogaddi (2002) with a 9.0/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country - EP and The Campfire Headphase. The discography on Wavelength spans 1995 to 2013.
Music Has the Right to Children
“Boards of Canada’s 1998 album is a beat-music touchstone, a record that took the previous decade of home-listening electronic music and essentially perfected it. This reissue offers a chance for a fresh look.”
In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country - EP
“What we have here are more insights into the preoccupations of the Boards of Canada compound. Notoriously journalist-shy (they're rumored to run screaming into haggis-infested forests at the sound of an incoming fax), Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin leave it to their records to inform us of their politics, their preferred abandonments, and the ill winds that blow through the purple-heathered glen”
Hi Scores
“Boards of Canada's first significant release, 1996's Hi Scores EP, has been remastered from the original tapes and reissued. The duo's tonal tendencies were already well developed: all six tracks feature their trademark four-bar chord progressions and cycling contrapuntal melodies. But Hi Scores might be most exciting for the way it breaks from their later work.”
Geogaddi
“It's a bit of a stretch, but a while ago I compared Boards of Canada's seminal *Music Has the Right to Children* with Miles Davis' *Kind of Blue*. I wasn't saying anything about the similarity or relative quality of the actual music, of course; I was just making an observation about how each album has a remarkably wide appeal that stretches beyond fans of its respective genre, while simultaneously”
Tomorrow's Harvest
“Long in the making, Boards of Canada's fourth full-length is their darkest and moodiest record. Clearly inspired by film soundtracks, Tomorrow's Harvest is heavy on atmosphere and richly textured drone.”
The Campfire Headphase
“The reclusiveness and mystery surrounding Boards of Canada has never been of much interest to me. When music possesses such an uncomplicated immediacy, the story of how it was made and by whom is less crucial. The macro of Boards of Canada's music is so well ordered, so complete, that the stories of the constituent parts are incidental. I never much cared for Easter eggs anyway; with art like this”
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