The difficult album that has virtually split the BoC fanbase, and the first BoC album to contain guitars. Personally, I think its a great move, and a more perhaps commercially viable album which has opened the illusive BoC duo to an entire new audience, and plunged much of BoCs older material into advertisement's on TV and BBC drama series to express dark or weird moments.
You have probably never heard of BoC, but you have most probably heard their material at some point.
Anyway, on with the review.. Containing the excellent "dayvan cowboy" later released as an EP, "Campfire headphase" is an eclectic mix of ambiance, dark breaks and meandering atmospherics. Opening with "into the rainbow vein" the album takes you on a 15-track ambient journey of grainy textures, wobbly guitars and hefty down tempo beats. Highlights of the album are the wonderfully upbeat "Sattelite anthem icarus" and the fantastically chilled summer song "hey Saturday sun". The only thing lacking in perhaps the more hardcore fans eyes are the retro subliminal samples which originally gave BoC the huge underground appeal. The album ends with the astoundingly ambient "farewell fire", reminiscent of aphex Twins "ambient works", taking a whole 8 mins to fade out.
An album certainly worth getting, especially if your into the more chilled side of intelligent electronica. Great for post-club comedown, or stoned Sunday. Not the best of BoC but certainly worthy of the BoC catalog.

8/10

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I may give them a listen.

I always planned to listen to them... since I listen to similar music to them but I never have.