Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Vinyl) Goth Happy Daze

Happy Daze

Red Right Hand

Cherry Chapstick

it is very much in the grand tradition of the album as art form

full of songs with hooks and emotional impact that never resort to histrionics

Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Vinyl) Goth Happy DazeForget everything you ever thought was dull or ponderous about ambient music, as Boards of Canada return like Greek heroes unbound from a genre that often sounds like a washing machine begging for a swift kick. Boards of Canada traced a disturbed childhood in the arctic, austere Music Has the Right to Children, but here there's a slightly warmer feeling. More central, tweaked vocals add a new dimension to the "hard beats + bittersweet melodies"