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- Date Released: December 9, 1996
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: IDM
- Label: Skam Records / EPM Online
First proper release from the electronic music titans who brought you Music Has the Right to Children.
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We Say...
Scottish brothers Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison originally released this mini-LP in 1996, two years before their iconoclastic album Music Has the Right to Children. It’s considered their first "official" release, even though the super-prolific pair had been actively making music since the late '80s in a variety of guises. Boards of Canada’s eerie, atonal electronica can be a rich and indulgent experience, so a six track dosage like this is a good way to ingest it.
Boards of Canada's music often brims with a childlike sense of wonder, wide-eyed and open-minded. On “Nlogax,” the rhythm thumps unsteadily, like a toddler learning its steps; a soulful vocal sample scuds through a tremolo effect that renders it indistinct. The lugubrious electric piano in “Turquoise Hexagon Sun" plods over faraway voice recordings as muffled as Charlie Brown’s teacher. Huge, lumbering rhythms — not unlike the earthy folk rock momentum of Fairport Convention — transport the imposing mass of “Everything You Do Is a Balloon." Although the weirdest stuff was yet to come, Hi Scores shows BOC already in full possession of their unique gifts. -
They Say...
Like Autechre and Bochum Welt, Boards of Canada draw heavily from both new wave and electro in appreciable measures that, when recombined in the context of the group's tugging beats and simple-but-effective songwriting, end up sounding like way more than either. Hi Scores is a near-perfect six-tracker of gorgeous, building ambient electro and loping downtempo electronic breakbeat tracks that are as pleasing to the ears as they are head-bucking funky.
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| 01. |  |
Hi Scores |
4:57 |
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| 02. | |
Turquoise Hexagon Sun |
5:08 |
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| 03. | |
Nlogax |
6:53 |
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| 04. | |
June 9th |
5:18 |
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| 05. | |
Seeya Later |
4:12 |
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| 06. | |
Everything You Do Is A Balloon |
7:03 |
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06 Total Tracks, 33:31 Total Length
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