Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Vinyl) arch hill Originally released on Tugboat Records

Originally released on Tugboat Records (a Rough Trade affiliated label) in February 2001

Anton Newcombe is the leader of The Brian Jonestown Massacre

a record constructed by exploring the edges of what a recording studio is capable of

or more accurately

Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Vinyl) arch hill Originally released on Tugboat RecordsForget everything you ever thought was dull or ponderous about ambient music, as Boards of Canada return like Greek heroes unbound from a genre that often sounds like a washing machine begging for a swift kick. Boards of Canada traced a disturbed childhood in the arctic, austere Music Has the Right to Children, but here there's a slightly warmer feeling. More central, tweaked vocals add a new dimension to the "hard beats + bittersweet melodies"