The Campfire Headphase, the first Boards Of Canada album in three and a half years, is due out on October 17th, and I couldn't possibly be more excited for a musical release. And I'm pretty excited for new Goldfrapp, DangerDoom, Super Furry Animals and Sigur Rós. I'm a pretty excitable person, all told. But this is the most exciting. Seriously.



Eeeeee!

Music Has The Right To Children is one of my favourite albums ever (and is even recommended by Simon Pegg and Mark Heap in the Spaced second series commentaries!) and Geogaddi is a spiralling, haunting work of immeasurable genius. Both albums make for compelling listening, but are also ideal stoner soundtracks.

Please tell me I'm not alone here. Boards Of Canada are one of the most exciting and imaginative electronic acts in the world and everyone should listen to them.

Both of the albums you mention are indeed awesome, and Boards of Canada a fantastic group. I knew this was coming out soon, but didn't have a release date Thanks!

And, like the rest of us, you've been in this state for the last 3 years? BoC piss me off. Not the music like, that's lovely, just the enforced secrecy - it's so high-school hijinks.

2 years ago, it might have been nice if they'd put something on their site saying "don't expect anything from us this year - but we are working on a new release"

Bloody stupid scottish hermits.

You're wrong, Wookiee. According to allmusic.com, The Campfire Headphase was the most exciting release of 1017.

On the subject of new albums... Allegedly FSOL will be eventually making a new 'proper' FSOL album after this year's Amorphous Androgynous release, but I've been waiting nine years already for the follow-up to Dead Cities so I'm not holding my breath. When/if that eventually arrives I will treat that as a very exciting release.

There have been rumours of a new Portishead album around for ages now, but that doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon either. I think that they've become melded in some way with Massive Attack, which is quite odd.

Boards of Canada did one of the pieces which kept coming up in my GCSE music practice exams. I spent *months* trying to find out about the song and the band...