Bleep Update Key Releases Out This Week   New Boards of Canada album with exclusive free items ; Dangerdoom; plus releases from Animal Collective, Blockhead and Audion.
		Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase (Warp)     (Click for the BOC page on Bleep - back catalogue, remixes and further listening) Released in the depths of winter 2002, Boards of Canada's Geogaddi was an era-defining album. Dense, intricate, woven with vocal snippets and arcane-sounding field recordings yet also shot through with a skin-tingling sonic clarity and dark beauty, over time the album took on life-changing qualities for a generation of electronic music fans as it was minutely dissected and discussed to the point of fanaticism across the internet. Now three years on Boards return with The Campfire Headphase, a work that dispels attempts to read too much into hidden mathematical meanings and instead provides a more staightforward, enveloping and contemplative listening experience. Distorted, detuned guitars combine with hip hop tempo beats and echoing organic textures to create an autumnal musical horizon that stretches far into the distance. At first accessible, but then rewarding repeat listenings as it gently worms its way into your subconscious, Campfire Headphase is a crisp, sunny november afternoon on the moors, picking mushrooms and eating a handful along the way. ***Free Bleep Exclusive: Animated screensavers (Mac and PC) featuring a slideshow of the intricate LP artwork, plus desktop wallpapers.***       Dangerdoom The Mouse & The Mask (Lex)     Your second must-have album this week, and Lex Records' biggest and best release yet, is the long awaited collaboration between the world's hottest producer Dangermouse (famed for last years masterwork The Grey Album and fresh from producing the multi-platinum selling Demon Days for Gorillaz) and superlative emcee MF Doom (Madvillain, King Geedorah). Inspired by and loosely themed around the cult Adult Swim shows on the Cartoon Network, this is probably the freshest most fun hip hop you'll hear this year, with Dangermouse totally on form and Doom in upbeat party mode. ***Free Bleep Exclusive: Desktop Wallpapers (all resolutions) of the cover art by Eh?***
		Also Out This Week       Animal Collective Feels (Fat Cat)     Following 2004's Sung Tongs that garnered a shedload of praise across the board, Animal Collective return with their seventh album to date. Where Sung Tongs was largely acoustic-based and the product of just two members of the Collective (Avey Tare and Panda), Feels is in contrast a full group effort - big-sounding, electrified pop with swirling guitars and vocal styles and stomping choruses reminiscent of classic Bowie or Mercury Rev in party mood. Electronic, psychedelic yet also inviting and warming, Feels shows Animal Collective fully on top of their game. “Feels is a strange and at times wonderful record - but even a misstep for Animal Collective bears an excess of riches”.(Dusted) Further Reading1 Further Reading2       Audion Suckfish (Spectral / Ghostly)     New on Spectral from Matthew Dear's Audion side project is Suckfish, a full-length of serrated, jacking techno madness that comes highly recommended. The title tracks from three previous singles (Kisses, The Pong and just Fucking) all appear on Suckfish alongside eight other dancefloor burners. "Audion's on a velvet glove tip, wrapping iron-fisted beats in plush sounds that rub you all the right ways - and leave you red with welts. Acid lashings, stilleto stabs, and knotty, knotty sub-bass - this is the sound of giving in and letting go." Philip Sherburne. As always on Bleep, this comes in high quality VBR MP3, perfect for DJing. Check the Suckfish site for free screensavers and wallpapers of the superb Op-Art style sleeve.       Blockhead Downtown Science (Ninja Tune)     Blockhead (aka Tony Simon, solo artist and top-notch producer for Aesop Rock and others) debuted last year with the stunning Music By Cavelight. He returns with an album of deep instrumental hip hop dedicated to the downtown area of Manhattan where he has spent all of his life, encompassing all the attitude, anger and edginess of the neighbourhood. “less than a year after his debut, Tony Simon is stamping an authority on instrumental hip-hop the likes of which we haven't seen since DJ Shadow. Bringing together swing, jazz, punk, and even disco, Simon evokes a picture of New York from a New Yorkers point of view. Atmospheric, uplifting, raw yet expertly refined - this is a simply terrific piece of music”. (MyVillage) Watch A Video Here         Arab Strap The Last Romance (Chemikal Und.)     More tales of everyday trials from the Scottish duo of Malcom Middleton and Aidan Moffat who continue to craft dark beauty from the bleakest of subject matter. “Raw, tender, emotional, charming, filthy... Arab Strap manage to be all of these, usually within the space of a single song. And, it's wonderful to report, The Last Romance is no different. Outside of great 90s writer Gordon Legge and the Irn Bru producing Barr family, Arab Strap are perhaps the most significant thing to come out of Falkirk. One of the mainstays of the Chemikal Underground label, they've been charting the dark and dirty side of life and love for the last decade or so. 4 Stars.” (Iain Hepburn, Manchester Online).         Vashti Bunyan Lookaftering (Fat Cat)     Vashti Bunyan returns with her first new work in over 35 years. In the '60s she was discovered by The Rolling Stones' guru, Andrew Loog Oldham, signed to Decca and recorded a single written by Jagger & Richards. After nothing else materialised, she rejected the music industry to set off for a creative colony that folk nut Donovan was forming on the Isle of Skye, the experience foming the basis for the album 'Just Another Diamond Day' recorded with Joe Boyd and featuring The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention. Over the years the album gained a reputation as a lost English classic, rediscovered by the new wave of folk experimentalists such as Adem and Devendra Banhart. Her new album 'Lookaftering' is a rich and beautifully arranged record featuring contributions from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), Robert Kirby (Nick Drake), Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker (Espers / Currituck County). Further Reading
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