Boards Of Canada ‎– Music Has The Right To Children

98 videos?! I know they have this cult following but it'll take a week to listen to at this rate!

This has to be the best BoC album. Nostalgic, dreamy, ambience mixed with good beats and unusual samples. An essential album for electronic music buffs.

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For me this is the best Album By Boards of Canada, very deep, emotional, melancholic and dark. "Music has the right to Children" is a perfect soundtrack for my current life, the sunny days, the old and desert streets where i wander, my job door 2 door...and a melancholic atmosphere in the zone where i live. My favorite music is :"An eagle in your mind", very deep and melancholic. The rest of the Album provides different kinds of experiences such as being surprised by ghosts e.g. "Sixteen" . This is definitely one of the most prominent Albums within its genre. Certainly a highly recommendable Release in my opinion.

Boards of Canada's debut, MUSIC HAS THE RIGHT TO CHILDREN, was a revelation when it was released, and remains a revelation today. Mixing modern production and child-like innocence, this album has a dreamy, ethereal quality which set the standard for IDM at the time. The crunchy hip-hop beats of "An Eagle In Your Mind" counterbalance the quiet atmosphere atop it that grows increasingly mysterious, while "Telephasic Workshop" brings in disembodied vocal snips as a rhythmic element. The deceptively simple melodies add a fascinating, modal quality, and the various interludes between the longer tracks help to keep the mood light, from the proclamations of love on "The Color Of The Fire" to the factory-inspired chug of "Triangles & Rhombuses." "Rue The Whirl" has a thick chug that leads into the more psychedelic, trippy funk of "Aquarius." "Pete Standing Alone" goes back to chunky beats and bucolic harmonies, while "Open The Light" introduces an epiphantic joy. But the track that stands out the most is the achingly beautiful "Turquoise Hexagon Sun," with its crystalline melody and melancholy glow. A magical album through and through.

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).