With expectations running maybe the highest they've ever been for an electronic album, the extremely elusive Scottish duo Boards Of Canada have finally released The Campfire Headphase; their follow-up to Music Has The Right To Children and Geogoddi, their only two and generally universally proclaimed masterpieces.

The problem however with such ridiculously high expectations is generally they're never met and here that is exactly the case. Not to say that The Campfire Headphase is bad, far from it in fact. It's just that sooner or later Boards Of Canada (just like Daft Punk did earlier this year with their very average Human After All album) had to eventually show that they were…well…human after all.

A new addition to Boards Of Canada's soothing computer born drones are very small bits of electric guitar thrown into the musical mix. Most of the time the guitars are too miniscule and tedious for their own good, but on "Dayvan Cowboy," those guitars are basically responsible for earning three stars of this review all on their lonesome. The Campfire Headphase as a whole never reaches a haunting or breathtaking apex that Music Has The Right or Geogoddi achieved, but it is overall a generally pleasant listen.