Boards of CanadaBest Boards of Canada Albums Ranked
7.9
Avg Score
131
Opinions
11
Albums
25
Reviewers
Summary from 131 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Boards of Canada’s catalog across 11 albums from 131 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated Boards of Canada album is Geogaddi (2002) with a 8.5/10 average from 10 ratings, followed by In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country - EP and Music Has the Right to Children. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1995 to 2026. Kid for Today ranks as the highest-rated Boards of Canada song on Rate.fm with a 9.8/10 average.
Kid for Today
Boards of Canada • 2000
Amo Bishop Roden
Boards of Canada • 2000
You Could Feel the Sky
Boards of Canada • 2002
Music Has the Right to Children
“Boards of Canada’s 1998 album is a beat-music touchstone, a record that took the previous decade of home-listening electronic music and essentially perfected it. This reissue offers a chance for a fresh look.”
In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country - EP
“What we have here are more insights into the preoccupations of the Boards of Canada compound. Notoriously journalist-shy (they're rumored to run screaming into haggis-infested forests at the sound of an incoming fax), Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin leave it to their records to inform us of their politics, their preferred abandonments, and the ill winds that blow through the purple-heathered glen”
Hi Scores
“Boards of Canada's first significant release, 1996's Hi Scores EP, has been remastered from the original tapes and reissued. The duo's tonal tendencies were already well developed: all six tracks feature their trademark four-bar chord progressions and cycling contrapuntal melodies. But Hi Scores might be most exciting for the way it breaks from their later work.”
Hi Scores
“This just keeps getting better and better. Hi Scores is Boards of Canada's second digitally released EP and release as a whole, and by now, their sound is already so distinct and addictive, I cannot get enough. I have listened to this about 5 times now and it never gets old, so that must really say a lot in itself. The title track 'Hi Scores' tickles my brain when listening in headphones in a unique way that feels like my brain is being shaken in and out of place repeatedly and I love it. It's so very much ahead of its time in terms of the downtempo/ever-growing IDM scene, and that certainly applies for the rest of the EP too. BOC are no strangers to a punchy, chopped and slowed down break and while artists like Leftfield were applying this formula to nasty, sound-system rumbling tunes, Boards of Canada were taking this idea and flipping it on its' head completely. This lead to something so distinct that is almost Lo-Fi, with significant tracks like 'Turquoise Hexagon Sun' and 'Everything You Do Is a Balloon' being something I would happily put on and study to. Now, take everything I just said in the last paragraph and forget about it completely for the time being, as I want spend a bit of time talking about 'June 9th'; my favourite track on this record and my favourite Boards of Canada song full-stop. It's genius. It's simply extraordinary. It feels dirty, with a dirty acid bass-line, and dirty screwed about drums, but at the same time, so freaking melodic.. like ughhh. There are so many little motifs that switch from one tonality to another so seamlessly that really once all put together make for a composition that is beyond perfectly and meticulously crafted. It's such a shame how I would have given this almost-perfect EP 10 stars, but the track 'Nlogax' feels so out of place and just.. bland. That's all I have to say about that really. After listening to it the first time I just skip it every re-listen, which really does suck but that's unfortunately my opinion and it still stands upon my now 6th listen. Top 3 Standouts: - June 9th - Everything You Do Is a Balloon - Hi Scores Worst Track: - Nlogax”
Twoism
“The definition of 'really nice' Twoism has this really warm, fuzzy flare to it (much like most other Boards of Canada records) that has this extremely unique VHS-tinted vibe where everything feels a bit warped, nostalgic, and like a blurry childhood memory that feels comforting. Boards of Canada aren't always necessarily background music, considering tracks like Basefree which have a slightly more deliberate punch probably wouldn't be put on while studying or trying to relax in general. But their debut digitally-released record is really smooth, and much like drinking smooth orange juice which I can't help but associate this EP with - it just goes down really well. Top 3 Standouts: - Oirectine - Melissa Juice - Seeya Later Worst tracks (not necessarily terrible) - Smokes Quantity/1986 Summer Fire - Iced Cody”
Geogaddi
“I honestly think it’s really good, it’s well made it’s cohesive in an odd unexplainable way, it’s just really solid. I don’t think it’s something I’d listen to normally but if it came on I wouldn’t complain at all”