| alastair | Add Friend |
Member Since: Oct 17, 2001
Rank: 4
Rated 60 releases, average: 3.78
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Various - Warp 10+3 Remixes - 11-May-02 12:41 AM
Maybe I just don't get it. Too "out-there" for my tastes.
Not exactly MIX-100 FM EZ-listening music. Only the adventurous should apply.
But good luck if you decide to persue it.
Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi - 11-May-02 12:24 AM
I'm not very good at writing reviews. Also I kinda missed the first BoC release "Music Has The Right To Children". However...
Once upon a time I had a friend of mine who wrote a novel. It was published, and critically acclaimed, and so he wrote another one. And another. And another. Each had less success than the last. Although I thought each was better than the original, if it hadn't been for that first novel, he would have really made an impression with each sucessive release.
The conclusion I drew from his experience is that professional critics are lost without something to compare to. If it's a subsequent work by an artist they are compelled to compare to the first. If there is no comparable work, the critics will find one.
Hence if you go searching for reviews of Geogaddi you will find lots of references to the first BoC release, "Music Has the Right to Children".
If you had never heard MHTRTC you will probably be blown away by Geogaddi. For example, I have very rarely had the experience of hearing a new purchase for the first time and felt compelled to replay it immediately. It is awesome. It is beautiful, there is no two ways about it.
It's not just the professional critics who are susceptible to this phenomena. Do you remember the first time you heard the Chemical Brothers' "Exit Planet Dust"? And the first time you heard the follow-up album "Dig your own hole"? Can you imagine what it would have been like to have heard DYOH at the time EPD came out?
And so Geogaddi gets less than the credit it deserves. It is truly an amazing album. The "feel" is one of hippy optimisim, and psychadelic openness. Whilst the beats and sounds are experimental and different, it never alienates the listener. You don't have to be an IDM wanker to appreciate it, it's just so damn beautiful that you can't help going along with the sounds and colours and beats and all that stuff. Hey, in a different universe this stuff would be played on clearchannel radio stations! (OK maybe not).
So if you've heard "Music Has the Right to Children", good on you. If you haven't, then go out and get it. Either way, don't let that stop you from grabbing Geogaddi. It is the best album I have heard this year, by far.
Thanks for reading.
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