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Geogaddi is the second studio album by Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada, released on 18 February 2002 by Warp Records. It was recorded between 1999 and 2001 at Hexagon Sun, their Pentland Hills studio. The album was intended to be—and has been described as—darker in tone than their debut studio album Music Has the Right to Children, released in 1998. Geogaddi received critical acclaim upon release, in addition to being acclaimed by several publications as one of the year's best albums. It was listed by music website Pitchfork as one of the best intelligent dance music albums of all time. Sandison described the album as "a record for some sort of trial-by-fire, a claustrophobic, twisting journey that takes you into some pretty dark experiences before you reach the open air again." The September 11 attacks drastically influenced the tone of the album during its production in 2001, with the duo "glued to the TV for the whole day" and Sandison saying that they had subsequently been pushed "into making a darker record". Mark Richardson of Pitchfork wrote that "the atmosphere on this album is a shade darker than on previous releases, and comparatively tense with a noticeable thread of paranoia." The album has been noted for featuring esoteric references, samples and subliminal messages, including references to numerology, Wicca and the Branch Davidians. Boards of Canada have claimed that the album's title is made up of several words with a specific meaning, but left it up to the listener to interpret it.
One of the best Boards of Canada albums and one of my favorite electronic albums. During the albums the sounds get stranger and the compositions weirder (The Devil Is in the Detail). An absolute must listen!
My fav Boards of Canada LP – while their other albums are uniformly amazing, this one has an uncharacteristic element of darkness and creeping uncertainty. It’s the perfect juxtaposition to Boards’ usual melodic dreamscapes and makes for a more engaging, demanding listen that stands out among their ethereal landscapes
Reminds me a bit of The Books but more psychedelic. Kind of put me in a trance and made me want to take a nap. But in a good way.
A classic Boards of Canada listen, delightful
Pretty damn good
Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Julie and candy, 1969
Nice selection, really interesting album
Chill and a great background listen
Very beautiful. I don't love it as much as the other one, but it is a feast of ideas over an hour
Too art forward for me maybe. I feel like I've heard a lot of this kind of electronica - the repetitive synth lines, the found audio snippets that don't add much for me. I don't hate listening to it, but I also don't feel like I get all that much out of it. It is maybe a genre I just don't get.
This was pretty good. Mildly unsettling and trippy. Some of it gets repetitive as you might expect it to get, but the brevity of most of the tracks and use of shorter interludes keeps this from wandering into the weeds. Fave Songs: Julie and Candy, Alpha and Omega, Music Is Math, The Smallest Weird Number
Prediction: electronica. Ok, it is, but it's also far more experimental than I anticipated. Tripper music, basically. I thought it was going to just be trance or something. I don't know honestly what this is beyond "drug music". End update: it was alright? Just did the same sorta stuff for an hour. Mildly psychedelic, would probably be great if I was off my head. Update update: listened to it stoned last night. The ambient tracks were really cool, the actual music not as effective as expected, but it was still alright. 3/5.
I'm not usually a fan of electronic music, but this was pretty cool. Mostly as background music, but interesting. A few of the songs creeped me out, especially some in the latter half of the album like The Devil is in the Details and Dawn Chorus. 3 stars.
Probably ok 3
Atmospheric and calm. Good as background sounds, but not something I would sit down and listen to
I thought I knew the genre of Boards of Canada, but I was wrong and this wasn’t what I thought it would be. I liked it well enough although it kept fading into the background and I would lose interest. Somewhat unsettling and dark, it didn’t catch fire with me but I didn’t dislike it.
IDM, downtempo, psychedelia, hauntology, ambient. Ni fu ni fa.
Brazy
Background music. Good background music but background music nonetheless. It's hard to talk about it more than that. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3.5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.
Pretty chill. I liked it.
I enjoyed the cerebral dance vibes but not as much as their 1998 album on this list. I am enjoying the image of people deep in thought wigging out on the dance floor to this, though.
Maybe there’s a theoretical day where I’d be in the mood to listen to this but today was certainly not that day.
Quirky
Wasn't high so didn't enjoy it
This was a unique electronic album but yet it was still a fully electronic album that just isn’t for me. It very well may have been great or acclaimed but my ears and mind just can’t fully appreciate this type of music. 3.0/10
Overrated band loved by no one walking around outside in real life.