Album: The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada (2005)
Genre: Ambient | Style: Electronic | Mood: Trippy
Format: Album

Description: The Campfire Headphase is the third studio album by Boards of Canada. Released by Warp Records in October 2005, the album featured the addition of heavily treated acoustic guitars and the use of more conventional song structures. The album took the duo three years to make.
“	We usually imagine our music to have a visual element while we're writing it, so we were picturing this character losing his mind at the campfire and compressing weeks of events into a few hours, in that time-stretching way that acid fucks with your perception.
– Michael Sandison

Artist Background: Boards of Canada are an electronic music duo from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, formed in 1986 and comprised of brothers Mike Sandison (born 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born 21 July 1971). They have released a number of works, most notably the studio albums Music Has the Right to Children (1998), Geogaddi (2002), and The Campfire Headphase (2005) on the pioneering electronic music label Warp. Their fourth album Tomorrow's Harvest was released in June 2013. Boards of Canada have had an enormous i... Part of the Edinburgh, Scotland music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Ambient movement. Known for Electronic style.

Music Scene: Part of the Edinburgh, Scotland music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Ambient movement. Known for Electronic style.

Tags: Ambient, Electronic, Trippy, 2000s, Album

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The Campfire Headphase is the third studio album by Boards of Canada. Released by Warp Records in October 2005, the album featured the addition of heavily treated acoustic guitars and the use of more conventional song structures. The album took the duo three years to make.
“	We usually imagine our music to have a visual element while we're writing it, so we were picturing this character losing his mind at the campfire and compressing weeks of events into a few hours, in that time-stretching way that acid fucks with your perception.
– Michael Sandison

The Campfire Headphase

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