The first American release by the Scottish duo Boards Of Canada managed to score well on both sides of the Atlantic. The scope of the music goes from funny retrotechno (á la Perry Kingsley), to ambient (sometimes surprisingly close to Eno's Ambient Music I), to just about anything imaginable with a few synthesizers and a drum. machine. Boards Of Canada's music has been compared to the music that
… was classified as nature documentaries in the 1970s, but you have to wonder which nature film would let distorted drum machines and strange voices in and out of the mix. Strange? Just say downright crazy. For example, the flashback with laughing gas from The Color Of Fire, in which an upset girl's voice through dizzying mist keeps repeating the phrase I ... love ... you keep repeating. Between the long tracks, which offer new discoveries with every listen, are beautiful sketches scattered all over the record. With the unabashedly lo-fi sound, this is the soundtrack for the kind of drug comic for which no drugs exist.more
