Campfire Headphase is incredible

that video is something else. it's simple, but you can feel their undying love for nature seething through it. i couldn't stop smiling when i saw it (esp the seagulls).

tree hugger extraordinaire

i just listened to this the other day and i still cant escape the feeling that it sounds like watered down boc. one of the aspects that i always liked about them was the sense of darkness lurking underneath. now, with the addition of strings and guitars (that are not being used in an interesting way) it just feels kinda blah. or meh, if you will. thats not to say it doesnt have some great tracks, but i miss the old boc.

Campfire headphase is my favourite BoC. It's totally psychedelic, love all the warped guitars and live percussion. It's like listening to folk music evolved 20 years, after far too many mushrooms. A melted cassette of old folk tracks, reinterpreted by aliens.

FFS. Cobblers, a load of cobblers.

it isn't scary enough

An amazing album .

Yeah , it's most definitely not a mediocre album.......Geo still rapes the shit out of it though .

  On 10/21/2009 at 11:38 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

An amazing album .

 

Yeah , it's most definitely not a mediocre album.......Geo still rapes the shit out of it though .

hahaha, agree.

I love relaxing to this record on a Sunday evening

Feels kind of weird listening to this in the cold weather though as this album usually gets a lot of play time during Spring/Summer. I tend to find myself playing a lot of Campfire tracks early in the mornings, they usually set me in a positive frame of mind.

I don't think anyone anticipated BOC going in this direction with the guitars after Geogaddi. It works really well but I sort of hope that they come back with a completely different direction in the new record. Looking back; their albums do not stay consistent (themes aren't repeated) so let's see what happens..

TCH changed my life, I had drifted away from electronic music for many years after being heavily into Aphex, Autechre, Orb, etc. in the 90's. For some reason I never picked up a BOC album back then, and ended up getting into world music and artists like Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble.

Then by chance a copy of TCH ended up in my house and I put it on repeat while working at the computer - just listening casually on and off as the hours went by. It slowly sunk in and eventually I had an epiphany - I realized that it was the most interesting and fresh music that I had heard in years.

Then I got every BOC release and I love them all in their own right. They re-ignited electronic music for me and I never looked back, branching out into the hundreds of artists (both famous & unknown) and sub-genres of electronic music. It's an absolute gold mine of creativity.

I'm one of those that feels BOC is 1/3 of a holy trinity along with RDJ and Autechre.

Farewell Fire is one of my favourites

Macquarie Ridge should have replaced Farewell Fire

  On 11/9/2009 at 4:00 AM, Capsaicin said:

Macquarie Ridge should have replaced Farewell Fire

wholeheartedly agree. Don't like Farewell Fire and the whole fadeout is too precious by far. doesn't ruin the album but I always skip it.

The songs that I specifically like on this album are Chromakey Dreamcoat, Satellite Anthem Icarus, Oscar See Through Red Eye, and Constants Are Changing.

The rest, except for '84 Pontiac Dream, are really forgettable to me. =\