Day 11: A song from my favourite band—Palace Posy
30 Days of Music, except only Boards of Canada, day 11.
Let's not try anything clever. This is a chance to share a BoC song I really like that might not fit future criteria: Palace Posy.
This is an odd one, even by BoC norms. A song of two halves. The first, while sounding like them, doesn't work for me at all. That might be BoC toying with is, or there may be a layer of subterranean brilliance I'm yet to unearth. A bit of both, I suspect. But today, I'd say this was the worst BoC recording by a margin—if it ended at 2:30. Which it doesn't.
At 2:30 there's a turn, and after another 30 seconds the song is transformed into BoC at their sublime (and sumliminal) best. It has perhaps the best use of a voice sample in any BoC record, which BoC Pages suggests might be from a Minneapolis TV ident from the 1970s (sounds plausible).
And, as is so often the case with BoC's best moments, it's over cruelly quickly.