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Closes Volume 1
Label(s)	Music70
Catalogue No(s)	AOMC16
Release date(s)	1992, 1997 (repress)
Format(s)	Cassette CD
Running time(s)	56:22

Closes Vol. 1 is Boards of Canada's third known release.

The album has not been heard by those outside of the band's family and friends. MP3s labeled "Godever" (1:46), "Treeline" (1:12), and "Trillions" (3:31) are not the tracks from Closes Vol. 1; the latter two are definitely not by Boards of Canada.

4 tracks have the title Close1 through Close4. Some track titles have mathematical connotations: Tends Towards (from analysis, limits, etc.), Numerator (fractions), Trillions, 5d (5-dimensional).

It was originally a cassette, but has been repressed on CD in 1997 ^{[1] [2]}.

In 2014 on PIC's own photography website, under a category called "In Life And In Song" he posted a high-resolution scan of what could be the origin of the cover without the "b.o.c closes vol. 1" marking in the top-right picture which was surely edited before the album's release.

The fact that in the time-stamp present in both the original source and artwork of the album, the year 1997 is present which matches the year in which the album was re-pressed on CD, could mean that the original 1992 cassette release has a totally different artwork. ^{[3] [4]}

Tracks[edit]

1. "Treeline" – 1:02
2. "Godever" – 1:51
3. "True Map" – 5:22
4. "Close1" – 0:50
5. "5d" – 5:21
6. "Focus On The Spiral" – 1:28
7. "Tends Towards" – 8:48
8. "Close2" – 1:04
9. "Eye / Ear" – 6:58
10. "Helios Sound" – 0:30
11. "Ithcus Sound" – 0:30
12. "Found The Way" – 6:06
13. "Close3" – 0:26
14. "Numerator (Original)" – 6:31
15. "Fonec" – 5:42
16. "Trillions" – 3:19
17. "Close4" – 0:34

References[edit]

1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20010619002758/http://www.boardsofcanada.com/discog_closes1.html
2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20010606220519/http://www.boardsofcanada.com/records.html
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170826030640/https://www.peteriaincampbell.co.uk/wp/?skills=in-life-and-in-song
4. ↑ https://imgur.com/a/gT2ir