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Geogaddi

Universal acclaim
Based on 21 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 24 votes
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Album Info
Label: Warp
Release Date: 19 February 2002
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient
Summary
The Scottish duo finally return with a full-length follow-up to their acclaimed 1998 debut, 'Music Has A Right To Children.'
Also By This Artist: In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country [EP] The Campfire Headphase Twoism [EP]
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
PopMatters
Geogaddi is successful as few other albums are. Whereas many artists and groups tend to released records composed of series of unrelated songs, songs based on single concepts, or songs written and recorded during single studio sessions, Boards of Canada's latest has done something exponentially spectacular and commendable.
Read Full Review >Uncut
More of the same, only more so. [Apr 2002, p.94]
Billboard
"Geogaddi" finds the Scottish duo ever adept at pushing the boundaries of electronic music without abandoning the hypnotically pacific nature of their sound.
Read Full Review >Mixer
For the most part, Geogaddi only hints at new directions. But then, if it ain't broke, why fix it? [Apr 2002, p.78]
Magnet
A rare second album that matches a brilliant debut. [#54, p.76]
Dot Music
Represents a considerable stride in ambition, reaching into dark unchartered territories and repaying close listening with the kind of organic insights that great music excels in unearthing.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
It's easily the electronic album of the year, but for all that, it doesn't break particularly new ground. The point more is that what ground is broken is done so with exquisite artistry.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
While some will complain about Boards of Canada's failure to cover new territory, the rest of us will delight in what we see as a very accomplished album packed with great music.
Read Full Review >Almost Cool
People wishing the group would change up their style a little more might find themselves a bit disappointed, but everyone else should be happy to know that they've again put forth a very solid effort, and one of the best electronic releases yet this year.
Read Full Review >Spin
It's a thoroughly satisfying album, but surprises are in short supply. [May 2002, p.120]
Q Magazine
Satisfying in every way that Aphex Twin's Drukqs wasn't. [Apr 2002, p.110]
Launch.com
Geogaddi is even more stripped-down and beautiful than Music Has..., BOC using simple circular rhythms and eerie samples to create an airless, ethereal ultraworld.
Read Full Review >Urb
Perhaps it's one of those unlikely Warp releases that manages to pair technical precision with an all-too-rare feeling of humanity. [Apr 2002, p.119]
Armchair DJ
"Geogaddi" improves on "Music Has the Right to Children" by taking the Boards of Canada sound into darker, more disturbing and fragmented directions.
Read Full Review >Trouser Press
Whereas Music Has the Right to Children's pastoral atmospherics were airy and open, Geogaddi is faintly claustrophobic and tense.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
The results can be overwhelmingly moving, but also overbearing after 66 minutes of breathless wonder.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
Where Music flowed with a pastoral warmth, Geogaddi feels colder and more mortal, bound to the tension between its upper and lower registers. [May 2002, p.78]
Playlouder
Too much of 'Geogaddi' just rests on the Boards' well established tricks.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Geogaddi is marvelously vague, as unconcerned with the real world as gangsta rap is obsessed with it. It's also a lovely, strangely comforting collection of electronic introspection, mood and shadow.
Read Full Review >The Wire
Of the 23 tracks, only four truly stand out. [#218, p.58]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Maxwell gave it a10:
Just like KID A two years before it, GEOGADDI is an electronica masterpiece, not because you can instantly pluck a handful of classics out of its tracklisting, but instead because it is an album in its truest form; it reveals its many layers with each listen. You will be pulled into a unique world; unique because it will be different for every single listener who interprets it in their own way-- and this is the beauty of art: Boards of Canada have created an album so personal, so real, no two people will have the same experience deciphering its endless intricacies. This is music in its highest form; full marks.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
A great follow-up to 1998's "Music Has The Right To Children", this one has some truly outstanding songs. "Over The Horizon Radar" might just be the best Boards of Canada song ever written.
ikram c gave it a 10:
dark and brooding music, the type you would play to freak your friends out. the impact of boards of canada's music can not be understated, i feel they are the one of the few electronic music producers around who can actually create either playful or haunting melodies running around in your head for a long long time. if only all musicians put more of their thought and feelings into their work. sigh
Benjamin Bunny gave it a 9:
Like listening in on a series of disturbing childhood dreams--or reliving your own.
mnky gave it an 8:
sonically evolved from the "Music Has the Right....cd" Geogaddi is less produced (less butter......more trips)......BOC is one of the few bands that either cares too much or don't give a damn.........either way......revolutionary.
Mac M gave it a 10:
Music as daring, scopic and inventive as this just doesn't seem to be made any more.
Nick P gave it a 9:
There is so much to explore on this dark journey into occultism, childhood, drug use, nature, paranoia and eventual releif. What sets Geogaddi that mark above Music Has The Right... is simply that it is more polished, more cohesive and thought out. Astonishing attention to detail.
