Review: Boards of Canada – “Trans Canada Highway”

Much of this six-song EP feels like a road marker between larger efforts, a bit of ambiance and Badalamenti-inspired synth-washes to pass the time.

But the album-opening “Dayvan Cowboy” — with its expansive guitar line, swelling faux-strings and shape-shifting percussion that’s scissored through processors — is alone worth the price of admission.

Favorite Track: “Dayvan Cowboy”

Grade: B- – Jetty, June 2006

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.