Boards of Canada The Essential Boards of Canada

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/20/the-essential-boards-of-canada/

For those not wanting to bother reading it: No mention of upcoming albums... only a brief mention of the Radio Silence.

Yeah good read. I couldn't be bothered to paste it up, knew somebody would!

All in all, it's just pleasent to be reading something about BOC.

It's weird how this Radio Silence quote you used Joyrex seems to of caught on.....

Is that now the official name for the years between 2006 and 2012?

New album title if I ever heard one

I've always just used it to describe the lack of information from Boards of Canada regarding a new release

A bit harsh on Campfire Headphase; i agree it's not their best, but hardly a Zero 7 soundalike record.

Other than that, a decent read.

  On 5/21/2012 at 5:36 PM, Joyrex said:

I've always just used it to describe the lack of information from Boards of Canada regarding a new release

then why capitalize it

"the Radio Silence"

because the new album will be on R&S Records?

  On 5/21/2012 at 6:46 PM, sirch said:

because the new album will be on R&S Records?

lol, good one sirch

  On 5/21/2012 at 6:43 PM, david said:

  On 5/21/2012 at 5:36 PM, Joyrex said:

I've always just used it to describe the lack of information from Boards of Canada regarding a new release

 

then why capitalize it

 

"the Radio Silence"

There's always a method TO my madNES...

nothing in there that i already didn't know but i guess it would be a good read for people just getting into them.

i did enjoy the odd quotes from the brothers though

Never heard the other version of Olson before... wow... ethereal.

Great article too

Good article. Like the point about their influence - there's a lot of that lazy Instagram aesthetic around music these days.

  On 5/24/2012 at 11:23 AM, westhead said:

Good article. Like the point about their influence - there's a lot of that lazy Instagram aesthetic around music these days.

There's a lot of that lazy Instagram aesthetic with everything these days. I thought there was a problem with my TV the other day when I watched an advert break and every single one was desaturated and used obscenely unnatural colour grading.

i'm surprised people are getting it just now. i remember writing about it on some early chillwave write up in 2009 (i'm very cutting edge, and it was in print, no blogs). i'm sure it really blew up later, but stuff like midas touch and especially trapped really foresaw the chillwave movement and greatly influenced it. it's nice seeing credit where it's due.

Don't get me wrong - I do like Ariel Pink and Washed Out, but it's turned into a shorthand for 'cool' or 'meaningful', which fucks me right off.

After such a great article, although the writing is a bit pedantic, it's pretty disappointing how he tosses TCH aside so cavalierly. If it's so bad, clearly it warrants some discussion. It almost feels like he got tired of writing at the end there.

Why does this journalist refer to them as Eoin and Sandison? We've known they're brothers for years. All in all, could be a better article, but I suppose it will expose more people to Hell Interface.

  On 5/26/2012 at 9:33 AM, vproc said:

Why does this journalist refer to them as Eoin and Sandison? We've known they're brothers for years. All in all, could be a better article, but I suppose it will expose more people to Hell Interface.

I think it was to give the article some sort of plot... later on (during Campfire era) it is revealed that they are indeed brothers, which they do address

Meh