Boards Of Canada ‎– Music Has The Right To Children

I can describe this outfit very simply. Minimal repetitive loops strung together by non-sensical interludes over trip-hop beats.

One of my top 20 albums, maybe even in my top 10 of all time ever. I would seriously consider spending a lot of cash on expensive audio gear so that I could hear the vinyl album.

This CD makes me want to create photographs that "sound" like the album.

You can't think of this so much as music as a journey, as a ticket to a trip. This is one of those albums you should not be casual about. This is a recording where you sit or lay down and just kind of let it enter your head. It is perfect listening for a lazy Sunday, as daylight is fading but the air is still warm. I think that is why I like this album so much. It completely transcends sound and takes you a place, mood and maybe even a time in your life.

It also would work as a make out album.

Absolute timeless masterpiece of the semi lo-fi, low key experimental electronic genre. It is too bad BOC never recorded anything as good but then, how could they have? It takes several listens to "get it" and it probably isn't for everyone but as far as I am concerned, BOC were able to sneak inside my mind, figure out all of my triggers and turn them into an album.

5 out of 5.

If anyone was wondering about the track "Roygbiv" and why it was named that, it is actually a common way to remember the order from top to bottom of the color spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green Blue, Indigo ,Violet).

This album isn't for everyone. Despite the positive comments and opinions, I find this music very dull. The lack of anything remotely interesting makes it difficult for me to sit down and listen to. The sounds are there, floating around, with seemingly no purpose.

I realize I'm definitely in the minority here, but for me, Music Has The Right To Children is a considerably lacklustre affair. I think it's unfortunate when an album such as this reaches 'automatic classic' status; that point where so many people own it, and it's so frequently raved about, that its greatness is essentially presumed.

There are a few decent moments on this album, and I think BOC definitely took their music in a direction that had seldom been explored up until 1998. I guess my problem is that this just feels like a series of very simple compositions. Most of the pieces operate around three or four layer loops, often consisting merely of a sampled beat and a few treated keyboard riffs. At times the layers do waft and float about with a certain majesty, but in the long run I struggle to find a level upon which this can hold my interest.. Particularly for an entire sixty minutes. I understand the concept of minimalism, which has been explored countless times to stunning effect throughout the history of electronic music. I'm not sure if BOC would consider themselves minimalists, but even if you take a view of this album from that point, it simply doesn't amount to much.

Additionally, many of the beats sampled here are quite 'of their time', and don't leave much to the imagination. I can't help but feel that in ten years time, this album won't have aged particularly well at all.. And repeat listens or not, there really isn't a great deal more to be discovered. If anything, I feel that Geogaddi was the more rounded, complex and captivating product of this curious, yet ultimately shallow debut LP.

Theres something strangley familar about the sound of this album.Like its always been around since the seventies but no ones noticed it before. For me this is one of those albums that demands your attention .A modern electronica classic.

A good album if you're in your thirties, as I am, and remember, with fondness, the first wave of electronica in the late seventies and early eighties. The sounds of analogue synths, minimoogs, and botched-together drum machines, are obviously things that the boys from the 'Boards' remember too.