In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Label(s)	Warp Records
Catalogue No(s)	WAP144
Release date(s)	17 Nov 2000
Format(s)	CD, 12" (sky-blue vinyl)
Running time(s)	24:04

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In a Beautiful Place out in the Country is an EP by Boards of Canada. Encompassing four tracks culled from the same recording sessions from which Boards of Canada would later produce Geogaddi (OOR Inteview, 2002), the ep tends to favor a more pastoral, even elegiac atmosphere than its predecessor Music Has the Right to Children

Although musically the EP is no great stylistic departure for the group, In a Beautiful Place out in the Country does represent a significant change in tone and subject matter. Of particular note are the references in the music and album art reflecting an interest by the brothers in the history of David Koresh’s millennialist sect, the Branch Davidians.

The most overt of these references is found in the track title Amo Bishop Roden, the real name of a woman who parted ways with Koresh before the 1993 Waco Siege. A less obvious reference to the Davidians is also found in the title track’s mantra “come out and live in a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country,” alleged to be a slogan used by Roden to proselyte for the Davidian sect.

On a somewhat more speculative note, the picture found directly beneath the disc on the CD release of the EP is thought by some to have been cropped from this picture (widely circulated by the media) of David Koresh.

References to the Davidian sect would continue to spill over into other Boards of Canada releases, notably on Geogaddi’s 1969, as well as their remix of Slag Boom Van Loon’s Poppy Seed.

The EP was released by Warp Records in both CD (WAP144CD) and 12” (WAP144) formats on November 17, 2000. The latter was pressed on sky-blue vinyl.

In 2002, the song Kid for Today was featured in a BMW 7 Series commercial for British television.

Tracks

1. "Kid For Today" – 6:23
2. "Amo Bishop Roden" – 6:16
3. "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country" – 6:07
4. "Zoetrope" – 5:18