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| On the day I listened to Music Has the Right to Children four times
in a row whilst working in my office, I was constantly bothered by other
people.
Most of them came in to say something along the lines of "Why do you get such
good speakers with your computer and we get those crappy little one-watt
Advent
things?", though a few were sufficiently intrigued by the music to ask the
group's
name. All responded to "Boards of Canada" with a vacant "Oh. Cool." Perhaps
that's going to be a problem. BOC have the spare electronic sound that
characterizes
the bulk of the WARPrecords roster, with the clean compositional paranoia
of the
Aphex Twin. Their music can percolate gently, and quite unobtrusively, in
the background
of almost any setting. These aren't five and six-minute dancefloor epics,
either -- many
of the tracks on Music... time out within ninety seconds. The
masterfully
emotive "roygbiv", which makes distinct inroads into the pop arena, is only
two and a
half minutes long...the perfect pop song, circa 2100 A.D. Long or short,
these songs
have a fever-dream element of fractured reality, like skipping in and out
of time and
space at random, never able to fully interact with your surroundings. Well
trippy
indeed. If you've never heard of Boards of Canada, spit in the eye
of risk
and give this disc a try. Sure, you may not have heard of them, but
they've got a
discography longer than the average male reproductive organ. And yeah,
Music...
has been licensed by Matador, a label as well known for electronic music as
Egypt
is for fine wines, but if you were really that label-conscious you'd
be reading
Raygun.
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