History NightmareFuel / BoardsOfCanada

* 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 ''VideoGame/SilentHill'' area.

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* NightmareFuel/Geogaddi

[[AC:Geogaddi]]
* The entirety of ''Music/{{Geogaddi}}'' is deeply unsettling, with deceptively sunny keyboards filtered through tape recorders that make them sound broken and distorted and to this day, people and fans argue about what the album's themes truly are (not helped by the album's references to cults such as David Koresh and the Branch Davidians). Particularly creepy tracks include:
** Right out of the box with "Ready Lets Go", which is little more than an oscillating drone (used to ''very'' creepy effect during ''Film/BabyDriver'').
** "Music is Math", the second track and the first full song on the album, sets the tone. The lyrics are hard to make out (as they're being sung in a near-incomprehensible, tribal wail filtered through a vocoder) but consensus seems to be that they are: "we all fall down... we all fall down... down..."
** "You Could Feel The Sky". The ripping/tearing beats, the eerie drones, the backmasked "a God with horns" sample, and the yelling at the end all add up to create a track that is disturbing as much as it is beautiful.
** "1969" crosses Boards of Canada's ''Right to Children''-era sunny sound with unsettling vocoder bits and references to cults. In fact, it's about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians Branch Davidian]] cult, which maintained a StepfordSmiler facade while their leader sexually abused children.
** "Opening The Mouth", which consists of eerie flutes and ominous breathing in the background, is a good case of NothingIsScarier.
** "A is to B as B is to C", with its strange, garbled loops and samples. Towards the end of the track, an ominous backmasked chorus chants something that sounds astonishingly like "O Geogaddi! O Geogaddi!"
** "The Devil is in the Details", which is about hypnosis. Not a good idea to listen to in a dark room.
*** It doesn't help that the backing beat sounds vaguely like an insect moving its wings back and forth.
*** Someone [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210722222548/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iolvzeQuTMg backmasked]] it in its entirety, and used the end result in a [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] webseries known as WebVideo/TribeTwelve. The result? '''''A completely different track''''' that feels like UncannyValley in sound form. ''Shudder''.
** "Alpha and Omega", which gradually becomes more and more frantic and incomprehensible, and three-fourths into the song a loud and unexpected "yellow" is spoken.
** "Gyroscope" makes you feel like you need to be running from something. Not to mention the small child repeating numbers throughout the song.
*** Even worse, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020713121921/http://www.ncf.ca:80/~ep521/hexagon_sun/colour_the_fire_of_the_cosseted.html according to an interview]], Marcus had actually ''dreamt'' this song before creating it, and unlike others he dreamt, he did this one extremely quick, and yet still ended up '''99 percent''' like it was in the dream. That's right, '''''this song was entirely created from someone's subconcious.'''''
** "I Saw Drones" is short, but downright threatening.[[note]]Though it sounds rather lovely when it is reversed[[/note]]
** "Diving Station" features a serene piano melody contrasted by these horrbile metallic droning sounds akin to a faulty engine. Near the end of the song, [[LastNoteNightmare the droning completely overpowers the piano and leaves the listener with nothing but harsh noise before fading]]. It genuinely wouldn't sound out of place in a horror film.
** "Corsair" is fairly tranquil compared to any of the other tracks, but still retains some ominousness.
*** Not to mention the track after it, "Magic Window." [[NothingIsScarier Which is entirely silent.]]
** "Beware the Friendly Stranger". The more you look into the song, the worse it gets.
*** ...Not to mention its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-V7xJ1D8X0 fan]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtaifr7qC_8 made]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eBkPoHg_Lk music]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWsavGOS7QA videos]]...
** "Dawn Chorus" is a bit odd at first, but starts getting really disturbing when you start to hear what appears to be a [[BreadMilkEggsSquick woman moaning as she's having sex]].[[note]][[NightmareRetardant In reality]], it's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQEYRxLJnIc&t=1881s "same sample of a kid saying "bye"]] that was also used in Sunshine Recorder.[[/note]]

** "Diving Station" features a serene piano meledy contrasted by these horrbile metallic droning sounds akin to a faulty engine. Near the end of the song, [[LastNoteNightmare the droning completely overpowers the piano and leaves the listener with nothing but harsh noise before fading]]. It genuinely wouldn't sound out of place in a horror film.

** "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

*** Someone [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iolvzeQuTMg backmasked]] it in its entirety, and used the end result in a [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] webseries known as WebVideo/TribeTwelve. The result? '''''A completely different track''''' that feels like UncannyValley in sound form. ''Shudder''.

* 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 VideoGame/SilentHill area.

* 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.]]

* Some of the tracks on the "Random 35 Tracks Tape" can be unsettling. Case in point? [[https://youtu.be/Z2Z-XOBdypY Audiotrack B08.]]

* Some of the tracks on the "Random 35 Tracks Tape" can be unsettling. Case in point? Audiotrack B08.

** Not to mention the more subtly ominous "Pete Standing Alone." Brr...

** "Music is Math," the second track and the first full song on the album, sets the tone. The lyrics are hard to make out (as they're being sung in a near-incomprehensible, tribal wail filtered through a vocoder) but consensus seems to be that they are: "we all fall down... we all fall down... down..."
** "You Could Feel The Sky." The ripping/tearing beats, the eerie drones, the backmasked "a God with hooves/horns" sample, and the yelling at the end all add up to create a track that is disturbing as much as it is beautiful.

** "A is to B as B is to C," with its strange, garbled loops and samples. Towards the end of the track, an ominous backmasked chorus chants something that sounds astonishingly like "O Geogaddi! O Geogaddi!"
** "The Devil is in the Details," which is about hypnosis. Not a good idea to listen to in a dark room.

** "Alpha and Omega," which gradually becomes more and more frantic and incomprehensible, and three-fourths into the song a loud and unexpected "yellow" is spoken.

** "Beware the Friendly Stranger." The more you look into the song, the worse it gets.

** "Dawn Chorus" is a bit odd at first, but starts getting really disturbing when you start to hear what appears to be a [[BreadMilkEggsSquick woman moaning as she's having sex]].[[note]][[Main/NightmareRetardant In reality]], it's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQEYRxLJnIc&t=1881s "same sample of a kid saying "bye"]] that was also used in Sunshine Recorder.[[/note]]

* ''Music/TomorrowsHarvest''. An apocalyptic dread is present through the whole album, from the opening bleakness of "Gemini" to the DownerEnding of "Semena Mertvykh."
** And speaking of "Semena Mertvykh," the title is a Russian translit for "Seeds of the Dead." Creepy, that is.

[[AC: Other Releases]]

** "I Saw Drones" is short, but downright threatening. [[note]] Though it sounds rather lovely when it is reversed[[/note]]

*** Not to mention the track after it, "Magic Window." [[Main/NothingIsScarier Which is entirely silent.]]

** "Dawn Chorus" is a bit odd at first, but starts getting really disturbing when you start to hear what appears to be a [[BreadMilkEggsSquick woman moaning as she's having sex]]. [[note]] [[Main/NightmareRetardant In reality]], it's the [[https://youtu.be/oQEYRxLJnIc?t=1881 "same sample of a kid saying "bye"]] that was also used in Sunshine Recorder. [[/note]]

** [[https://youtu.be/cgLqkPuGxnE Audiotrack B06]] is very quiet and empty. In fact, it feels almost a little ''[[NothingIsScarier too]]'' empty...

** Plus, the ''"I... Lovveee... You..."'' samples on "The Color Of The Fire." Downright UncannyValley stuff right here.

** Not to mention the [[Main/UpToEleven more]] subtly ominous "Pete Standing Alone." Brr...

** "A is to B as B is to C" , with its strange, garbled loops and samples. Towards the end of the track, an ominous backmasked chorus chants something that sounds astonishingly like "O Geogaddi! O Geogaddi!"

** "Alpha and Omega", which gradually becomes more and more frantic and incomprehensible, and three-fourths into the song a loud and unexpected "yellow" is spoken.

*** Not to mention the track after it, "Magic Window". [[Main/NothingIsScarier Which is entirely silent.]]
** "Beware the Friendly Stranger". The more you look into the song, the worse it gets.

** Dawn Chorus is a bit odd at first, but starts getting really disturbing when you start to hear what appears to be a [[BreadMilkEggsSquick woman moaning as she's having sex]]. [[note]] [[Main/NightmareRetardant In reality]], it's the [[https://youtu.be/oQEYRxLJnIc?t=1881 "same sample of a kid saying "bye"]] that was also used in Sunshine Recorder. [[/note]]

* ''Music/TomorrowsHarvest''. An apocalyptic dread is present through the whole album, from the opening bleakness of "Gemini" to the DownerEnding of "Semena Mertvykh".
** And speaking of "Semena Mertvykh", the title is a Russian translit for "Seeds of the Dead". Creepy, that is.

** 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]].

** 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.

* 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]].** 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.

* 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]].

** 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.

[AC:Old Tunes]

[AC:Music Has the Right to Children]

[AC:In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country]

[AC:Geogaddi]

[AC:The Campfire Headphase]

[AC:Tomorrow's Harvest]

[AC: Other Releases]

** "[[HellIsThatNoise Opening The Mouth]]." My God.

* The cover of ''Music/MusicHasTheRightToChildren'' anyone? TheFaceless...
** The inside of the album has each of their faces magnified. Ugh.
** Plus, the ''"I... Lovveee... You..."'' samples on "The Color Of The Fire." Downright UncannyValley stuff right here.
** Though maybe not ''outright'' Nightmare Fuel, "An Eagle In Your Mind" and "Sixtyten" are subtly ominous.
** Not to mention the [[Main/UpToEleven more]] subtly ominous "Pete Standing Alone." Brr...
* ''In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country.'' The whole EP has an unsettling atmosphere, especially "Amo Bishop Roden" and the title track.

* "Slow This Bird Down" is fairly ominous, especially compared to the rest of ''The Campfire Headphase''.
* "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.

** [[https://youtu.be/cgLqkPuGxnE Audiotrack B06]] is very quiet and empty. In fact, it feels almost a little ''[[NothingIsScarier too]]'' empty...
* Something about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgpCJxDDIg 5d]] is very creepy.

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