Geogaddi (2002)

Boards of Canada's second album is a darker shade of their faded-home-movie sound, threaded with esoteric references, half-heard voices and samples tuned just off true. The standard edition runs 66 minutes and 6 seconds, a fitting detail for a record that sounds like a children's nature film recorded over something sinister. Dawn Chorus shows the beauty; the short interludes show the shadows. Intensity: nostalgic on the surface and creepy underneath, but rarely loud.