Owing to a failure of intelligence (i.e., mine) it appears that Boards of Canada's "The Campfire Headphase" was left off of the previous, somewhat haphazard, run-down of the current year's music.
I would like to know, apropos the blanket of negativity that this record was greeted with, by what definition the phrase "sounds like their previous records, but with guitars" could be a bad thing. (Reminds me of the time several of us huddled around Anthony's Bose speakers circa 1982 and debated whether that was an actual bass guitar being doinked on Kraftwerk's "Tour De France" single, and whether, on the - seemingly misguided - assumption that it was, we would have to thereafter forever abandon our loyalty to Ralf und Florien.) Purism, kids, will get you nowhere. Look at the Americans in Iraq. (Whoops, where did that come from?)
