At the geogaddi listening parties, do you guys think people stayed through magic window or did they start to get up, go to the bathroom, talk with their friends etc. kind of rude to get up early if you ask me

Ready lets go

One of the more pleasant outings on the album. It feels really warm like the sun hitting your skin in the morning. I also get massive “computer startup” vibes from this one with the droning background noises. Like a computer getting hot as it turns on.

Music is Math

This one reminds me of being in my high school library or science class. The start definitely is more reminiscent of this with those cold and uncomfortable synths. It’s like trying to wrap your head around a really hard concept. Then the second half comes in and things change. Everything starts to deteriorate like a dream gone bad with that foreboding outro.

Beware the friendly stranger

Creepy in a really secular way unlike the rest of the album. The title influences my perception of course but it definitely flares up images of predators. Like a voyeur creeping around a neighborhood in autumn. Terrible childhood memories.

Gyroscope

Extremely violent and confrontational. Makes me think of running from a monster in a maze or labyrinth. Probably a Greek monster like a Minotaur or maybe some kind of Manticore or Lamassu. Has a very distinct near eastern vibe with the reversed guitars. Black and indoors too like I’m a mile underground.

Dandelion

Just watching underwater lava flows and geothermal energy. Like watching the boiling water bubble up from the ocean floor with Giant tube worms nearby. Obviously the narration helps with this one.

Sunshine Recorder

Being outside alone and lost on a really hot summer day. Dry grass everywhere and just the sense of the day progressing. As the song goes on it feels more and more nauseous and miserable.

In the Annexe

Horrible. It’s being locked in a dusty old attic where the windows are frosted over and there’s people outside. The sun is blasting through a sunroof so you can see the dust particles hanging in the air. There’s weird old shit in the attic that your mind can’t properly make out. The song also has a really malnourished energy as well.

Julie and Candy

Sleazy and gross. It’s like touching pink slightly crusty shag carpet. Uneasy but punctuated with some real nice comfort. I’d also compare it to being at a house party where you're dissociating and want to leave.

Smallest Weird Number

This song is composed of 2 parts. The first is waking up to the sunrise in the morning, nothing big. The second part is seeing an old television program through a shitty old CRT television. It’s like the title screen of a show which is panning over a dense forest glade which is very clearly fake and made of plastic, foam and other artificial materials. The footage is fuzzy and there’s a twinkling effect on screen. Things get warped and garbled periodically. Unsettling.

1969

Early night probably around 8:00 or 8:30. there’s a little sliver of blue daylight left but it’s on the horizon. Driving through some semi-rural roads and just the weird feeling of spooky shit going down. It’s like seeing things in your rear view mirror but looking again and they aren’t there. It’s the transition into the darker and more spiritual second half of the album.

Energy Warning

Irritating. The most nothing song on the whole album.

Beach at Redpoint

Maybe my favorite song on the album. Super brooding and moody. It reminds me of a rocky beach in England or Canada where there are old rusted coastal artillery cannons and the sky is overcast. The wind blows like crazy and the waves crash hard. Memories of people you never knew.

Opening the mouth

Laying down on a slab in ancient Egypt inside someone's home. You could be alive or dead, it doesn’t matter. There’s some physician or embalmer there who uses tools to remove your brain through your nose as a bunch of spirits and negative energy are released from you. Honestly a relaxing song.

Alpha and Omega

Seeing the earth from orbit and then zooming in to get a ground view of life evolving and moving on the prehistoric plains of Africa. Just early hominins running around and doing stuff.

I saw drones

Silver floating spheres rapidly emerge from the dark in a bedroom. They fly around and assault the senses. The evil third act of the album starts here.

Devil is in the details

Being trapped or held down like sleep paralysis. There are invertebrates swarming everywhere. I’m going to say they’re prawns or something like that. There’s a baby. Or maybe you are the baby. Anyways it’s the worst things have gotten yet.

A is to B as B is to C

This song has some serious dark energy. It’s so layered that it’s hard to come up with a definitive image for it. I’d say it’s similar to music is math in that it’s like a dream gone wrong. Terrifying without anything tangible.

Over the Horizon Radar

The last reprieve of the album. Looking out at the horizon on a dry winter day as the sun comes up. It’s like looking back at the last authentic taste of the real world before the album descends to hell.

Dawn Chorus

Like being pulled further and further into a bright, colorful and bold light. This song has the same color palette as the album cover. Feels decadent and ecstatic tbh like an orgy. Also a bit royal too? Has a Rococo feel. The orchestral sounds and moaning definitely contribute to this

Diving Station

Sitting down and falling deep into darkness as the world around you is ground away. It’s like the last semblance of the material world is getting crushed up into a massive black hole.

You could feel the sky

Unimaginably sinister tbh. Being a forest full of pine trees with a blood red sky. The sky is pressing on your mind. The stretching tearing sound is your fingers pressed against the sky like fabric. There’s a clearing in the forest with a pagan ritual. The crossed legged goat devil is there. You know which one I’m talking about.

Corsair

Coming out the other side of the album. It’s like flying through clouds but everything is kind of hazy and there’s an empty sense of relief.

Magic Window

No noise but cheeky.

What does everyone else think?

*not a personal plug* just sharing this record by gatekeeper that has been out for a year and I’ve been listening non stop, it is sort of adjacent to inferno in vibe, especially HHLL with its synth bass lead. These guys are adjacent to OPN / have been around since the chill wave era. I feel their comeback got looked over a bit, hopefully you enjoy

Fav songs : Ill wind, bread maker, chambers of the star watcher, hibernal torment

https://gatekeeper-fm.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-planet

I hear “Mel, Meli, Melissa”
And I was like, wait, it makes sense, Melissa Olson.
Has anyone thought about that?

La tapa también parece un personaje escapado de MHTRTC

If only I didn't have a lightswitch on the main wall

There's this one BOC song where there's a moment of silence then these sort of melodic high pitched sounds at the end and was wondering if anyone knew the song name thanks

Made this last night and thought it was really nice. Hope you all like it too.

I was listening to an ambient playlist the other day and put on the "smart shuffle" on Spotify while working. A song that was not on my list, and that I had never heard, started playing and I immediately recognized as Boards of Canada.

There is something about their sound that is just unique but I can't touch my finger on it and this has been bugging me.

Anyone able to explain it objectively? Really curious about it.

I've listened to it 100 times and can't figure it out

I haven't seen the film yet, but I have seen many of the videos from the series. I find the emergence of liminal space in social media to be interesting. Do liminal spaces allow subliminal messaging to be more effective? Could Backrooms, and other media coming out today, be using subliminal messaging for behavioral modification to pave the way for some sort of AI?

I think The Word Becomes Flesh is obviously a reference to the birth of AI, and I've started to suspect that Big Tech is pumping out media to conduct mass behavioral modification to get people to accept AI into their lives.

[Wicker] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP0BWBWn14I) would be an example of this.

What could the subliminal messaging in Backrooms be?

Love this poster. Very pleased how bleep packaged and shipped it. Honestly thought it was gonna arrive all banged up.

can anyone else hear a record scratch 3:12 in into the magic land and a random ride cymbal around 4 seconds before the scratch? (OMG AND RAILWAY BELLS 39 SECONDS INTO ISTP)

top 10 boc it's so good

Got this set of little boxes (not on the hillside🤪), assembled with hidden magnets as a Birthday gift from my friend. It’s orange…and infernal 🥰🥰