The artistes in the crowd find it unbearably old hat, and persons not in tune with electronica may hate it, but I’ve just discovered Boards of Canada’s 1998 album Music has the Right to Children, and the damn thing has hardly been off my player for the past month. For certain mildly autistic personalities such as mine, this stuff is the musical equivalent of crack.
Fave moments: the finely diced, chanted voices that gradually bubble up over the rhythm line in “Telephasic Workshop”, the wacky, scratched soul chorus of “Sixtyten”, the hypnotic stomp of “Rue the Whirl”, just about everything about “Aquarius”, and the seagull’s cry that forms the hook in “Happy Cycling”.
So, any other BoC aficionados out there? I’m contemplating getting their most recent, Geogaddi, but am afraid it may tread the same ground to too great an extent