Released: 2000
At this point it all looked like it might be straightforward. Boards of Canada’s self-mythologising, frustratingly unavailable back catalogue of for-friends-ears-only releases didn’t really matter, because by the turn of the new millennium the brothers Sandison had made public a regular supply of both official and bootlegged material, including Music Has The Right To Children, an album that would ultimately change the course of electronic music history.
Out In A Beautiful Place In The Country arrived blinking in the light of the next thousand years, a four track odyssey which in theory could’ve cemented the duo’s position as one of the movement’s most enigmatic but distinctive auteurs. And then the painstaking process of decoding it’s contents began. Few fanbases are as obsessive and what emerged were references to David Koresh and his Branch Dividian cult, then only a few years on from comitting mass suicide on his whim; the song Amo Bishop Roden shared a name with one of his followers.
Kid for Today as with so much other BoC material, appeared to have been salvaged from a part work originally produced several years earlier. It’s more drone like quality shared a kinship to some of the group’s publicly unheard early work, whilst there was speculation that the interspersed rhythmic clacking was the noise of an old slide projector.
It seemed then like this frequency of output would become the norm, but after 2005’s The Campfire Headphase it was eight years until the next album Tomorrow’s Harvest; it’s now been eleven years since, and remixes and the odd hoax aside, silence has become Boards of Canada’s only constant.
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