Monday, December 28, 2009

albums of the decade - 16. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi


16. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi (2002)

Maybe the most sinister album of all time, Boards of Canada are not as obviously frightful as Aphex Twin and don't exactly need to make a music video like 'Windowlicker' to show it. Instead, Geogaddi incorporates compressed children's voices counting over geometric beats, along with unnerving robotic voices and it's like those bad childhood dreams, where you'd wake up and not be able to get back to sleep. This album had an OCD with Mathematics as well with song titles such as 'The Smallest Weird Number' and 'A is to B as B is to C' and the satanic running length is 66:06. To make things even more fucked up, if you listen to the album on drugs, you're supposed to be transported to a place of jumbo absurdity.

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