Geogaddi

All hail the return of the Scottish electronica kings – true pioneers as important as fellow electronic royalty like Aphex Twin, Autechre or Plaid. Geogaddi is the second album from Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison and a follow up to their landmark debut Music Has The Right To Children.

To say that Geogaddi is eagerly anticipated is as much as an understatement as saying Richard D. James is a bit of an oddball. The stakes are high, and BOC raise the benchmark further by opting for a final selection of 23 tracks sprawled across a lush electro-symphonic soundscape.

Cuts like ‘Gyroscope’ are sinister and foreboding, looping dark beats and layering them over childlike melodies and pastoral chimes. ‘Sunshine Recorder’ and ‘Alpha and Omega’ swirl in breathtaking shapes and take a cue from My Bloody Valentine in doing incredible things with reverb to create a fuzzy yet very pleasant spine-tingling sense of disorientation. ‘1969’ uses the devious trick of including the sound of a CD skipping, just before a deranged vodocorded voice takes over and leads us down an avenue similar to something from Air’s 10,000 Hz Legend except even better.

If you own and love albums like Loveless, Kid A, Selected Ambient Works, Skipper or anything by Philip Glass, Kraftwerk or Brian Eno, then you really, really, really must buy this album. Geogaddi is quite simply a thoroughbred masterpiece of staggering supersonic artistry. Go get it.