Boards of Canada: Music is Math

BOC plays with numbers a lot. Their usage of numbers generally falls into 2 categories: spiritual/occult and nostalgiac. You could likely break these down into further divisions, but I personally enjoy the room they hold. BOC is a truly engimatic band and their music contains magnitudes, so broad categories are useful for discussing bigger-picture/general ideas in their work. This will certainly not be a "comprehensive" view of their music, it will just be my opinions from personal observation and limited research

The Numerology of Boards of Canada is one of the first things most people would pick up on upon digging a bit deeper into their work. Six in general is a prominent motif of their music. Geogaddi has a runtime of 66:06 (unless you have the woke Japanese edition with an extra song about god). The hexagon is a six-sided shape; the cover of Geogaddi depicts a red hexagon, in contrast to the turquoise and orange hexagons referenced in their other songs, though the Geogaddi hexagon is surrounded by orange. MORE COMING SOON