Were it not for continuing knowledge of present surroundings, headphone listening to Boards Of Canada's The Campfire Headphase might feel like temporal dislocation. Close your eyes, inhale deeply, and suddenly you're where you were however many years ago you consider your "misspent youth" to have taken place.

Here's the warm summer evening, here's the feel of wind through your car's window, here's the friend's porch where you got high listening to the first music you were truly one with.

Here's the face of your first love and the way you felt when the world was open wide like your eyes. Here's the brightness of uncountable stars from the seat of a bicycle at 3am. Here's the best time of your life in texture and touch and tone.

Here's the excitement of being alive, where everything is new, the unknown is every second of every minute of every hour of every day and what's ahead is a pact between the future and you.

The miracle: it's not dislocating at all. Instead of taking you back, Boards Of Canada brings it here.

In Music Has The Right To Children and Geogaddi, Boards reached across the sonic gap gap to pull you in, grabbed with rhythm then lead to headspace. With their latest release, they don't need to. From opening track to close, this work is all theirs, and yours... no bread crumbs required.

I can't listen to The Campfire Headphase without realizing the best time of my life has been going on since the day I was born. The good, the bad and everything between is all with me, and all of me, all the time.