Geogaddi

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Geogaddi, released February 2002, was the second widely distributed album by the enigmatic electronic music duo Boards of Canada.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Track listing 3 Trivia 4 External links

Overview

The theme of the album continues the exploration of innocent, child-like bliss found throughout the band's 1998 major label debut album, Music Has the Right to Children. The album also has the band moving into darker territory: Haunting references to horned gods ("You Could Feel the Sky") and Branch Davidians cultism ("1969") abound. Although it retains the duo's trademark soundscapes and melodic vignettes, the album can be unsettling and fraught with paranoia at times: Template:Cquote

The album received mixed reviews the year of its release from critics who were unimpressed by the lack of "development" since 1998's Music Has the Right to Children. Since then, Geogaddi has grown to be a strong fan favorite due to the hidden depth of the record Template:Fact.

The duo and its record label, Warp Records, announced Geogaddi with little fanfare. The album premiered in six churches around the world: London, New York, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin. They provided only one press interview for the NME via email.

The album is available in three formats: Standard jewel case CD packaging, limited edition hardbound book packaged with a CD and extra artwork enclosed, and a triple vinyl package. Side F of the vinyl package, with the track "Magic Window", is uncut and the vinyl contains an etching of a nuclear family that one can see by looking at the record. Note that "Magic Window" is a track of pure silence in all three formats.

The band received the idea to make the original record track time total 66 minutes and 6 seconds from Warp Records president Steve Beckett, his reasoning being to joke around with the listeners and make them believe that the Devil had created the album. Similarly, the regular album having 23 tracks may be a playful reference to the occult signifiance of 23, or the numerologic idea that "2/3 is 0.666".

The Japanese edition of Geogaddi features an additional track entitled "From One Source All Things Depend". This short track contains many samples of children talking about who they believe God to be.

Track listing

1. "Ready Let's Go" – 0:59
2. "Music Is Math" – 5:21
3. "Beware the Friendly Stranger" – 0:37
4. "Gyroscope" – 3:34
5. "Dandelion" – 1:15
6. "Sunshine Recorder" – 6:12
7. "In the Annexe" – 1:22
8. "Julie and Candy" – 5:30
9. "The Smallest Weird Number" – 1:17
10. "1969" – 4:20
11. "Energy Warning" – 0:35
12. "The Beach at Redpoint" – 4:18
13. "Opening the Mouth" – 1:11
14. "Alpha and Omega" – 7:02
15. "I Saw Drones" – 0:27
16. "The Devil Is In the Details" – 3:53
17. "A is to B as B is to C" – 1:40
18. "Over the Horizon Radar" – 1:08
19. "Dawn Chorus" – 3:55
20. "Diving Station" – 1:26
21. "You Could Feel the Sky" – 5:14
22. "Corsair" – 2:52
23. "Magic Window" – 1:46
24. "From One Source All Things Depend" – 2:10 (Japanese edition only)

Trivia

• Song titles may allude to the gyroscope (4), a deep sea variant of the dandelion flower (5), a weird number (9), the year 1969 (10), the Alpha and Omega (14), the golden ratio (17), an over-the-horizon radar (18), the dawn chorus (19).

External links

• Geogaddi at the official Warp Records discography (features audio clips).
• Template:Musicbrainz album
• Analysis of the meaning of Geogaddi titles, with quotes