Line #1 NightmareFuel/BoardsOfCanada


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5	!!Albums with their own page:
6	[[index]]
7	* NightmareFuel/{{Geogaddi}}
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10	!!Examples:
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12	[[AC:Old Tunes]]
13	* "House of Abin'adab" from ''Old Tunes Vol. 1'' practically lives off of NothingIsScarier; the only sound throughout the entire track is a low, quavering drone that occasionally [[JumpScare pipes]] [[HellIsThatNoise up]] in intensity.
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15	[[AC:Music Has the Right to Children]]
16	* The cover of ''Music/MusicHasTheRightToChildren'' anyone? TheFaceless...
17	** The inside of the album has each of their faces magnified. Ugh.
18	** Plus, the ''"I... Lovveee... You..."'' samples on "The Color Of The Fire."
19	** Though maybe not ''outright'' Nightmare Fuel, "An Eagle In Your Mind" and "Sixtyten" are subtly ominous.
20	** Not to mention the more subtly ominous "Pete Standing Alone". Brr...
21	** "Smokes Quantity" is very ominous too, especially those droning... ''sounds'' repeated throughout the whole thing. The icy keys that join partway through don't help either.
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23	[[AC:In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country]]
24	* ''In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country.'' The whole EP has an unsettling atmosphere, especially "Amo Bishop Roden" and the title track.
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26	[[AC:The Campfire Headphase]]
27	* "Sherbert Head", with the intense static filter, sound clips of people who are either loudly talking, laughing, or screaming, and the minimal melody that can be both beautiful and strangely empty. It is incredibly reminiscent of something one would hear on ''Geogaddi'', rather than this otherwise placid album.
28	* "Slow This Bird Down" is fairly ominous, especially compared to the rest of ''The Campfire Headphase''.
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30	[[AC:Tomorrow's Harvest]]
31	* ''Music/TomorrowsHarvest''. An apocalyptic dread is present through the whole album, from the opening bleakness of "Gemini" to the DownerEnding of "Semena Mertvykh".
32	** And speaking of "Semena Mertvykh", the title is a Russian translit for "Seeds of the Dead". Creepy, that is.
33	** "White Cyclosa" can easily put the listener on edge, whether or not they've seen ''[[Film/DayOfTheDead1985 Day of the Dead]]''.
34	** As with most [=BoC=] works, fan interpretations are ubiquitous, but a Redditor came up with [[https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/87u1l4/tomorrows_harvest_storyline/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 this particularly horrifying one]].
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36	[[AC:Other Releases]]
37	* Their remix (under the "Hell Interface" alias) of Colonel Abrams' "Trapped" turns an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNWeXGZMcU upbeat pop song]] into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug0y1ZhdHT0 a horrifying song about love gone wrong]].
38	** Speaking of Hell Interface, the AntiChristmasSong "Soylent Night" is arguably one of the most unsettling tracks ever heard from [=BoC=]. The main melody is a sample from the fifth movement of Music/JohannSebastianBach's Magnificat twisted into a dissonant, haunting loop. Partway through a passage from "Silent Night" can be heard, but it has been treated in such a way that it sounds more like a faint and ghostly wail than any human vocal. To top it all off, the song concludes with a distorted robotic voice reciting the Lord's Prayer.
39	* Some of the tracks on the "Random 35 Tracks Tape" can be unsettling. Case in point? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Z-XOBdypY Audiotrack B08.]] Tense atmosphere, dissonant, clanging melody, the perfect soundtrack to a lost ''Franchise/SilentHill'' area.
40	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLqkPuGxnE Audiotrack B06]] is very quiet and empty. In fact, it feels almost a little ''[[NothingIsScarier too]]'' empty...

Context NightmareFuel / BoardsOfCanada