Boards Of Canada ‎– Geogaddi

'Geogaddi' is arguably one of Boards of Canada's most intriguing works, the kind of album that you could spend hours and hours with, constantly unpicking more meaning from its immaculately textured depths. Released in 2002, the first thing that is clear is its darker way with mood. Still operating in a nostalgia-tinged analog world, the textures seem to carry more weight. The heavier rhythms and hypnotically crackling samples on 'Music Is Math' and groaning voices on 'Gyroscope' are laced with something approaching menace. There are sparse, almost playful moments too though, which add to the album's beguiling quality. 'The Devil Is In The Details' is a skittering piece of electronics and barely-there voices, 'While Dawn Chorus' is all widescreen, chunky beats that sound like the sun coming up.

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