Music Has the Right to Children

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That was of course Boards of Canada with, uh, Roygbiv, um, from the Music Has the Right to Children album.

Um, yeah, um, I'm gonna play you some, uh, My Bloody Valentine next from, uh, their most recent album, which is their comeback album, but it is now I think been over, been like 13 years since it came out, so it's not quite so new anymore.

But, uh, yeah, this is...

Yeah, it was intense.

But into the middle of this hyper digital, frenetic arms race, Boards of Canada drops their debut album, Music Has the Right to Children.

And it just completely stops the clock.

Yeah, it abandons everything happening around it.

Because they don't release music often, but when they do, there's a clear evolution of this thesis.

Yeah.

So it starts with that 1998 breakthrough, Music Has the Right to Children.

Tracks like "Roig Biv" and "Aquarius" establish their baseline.

of again those warm woozy yeah

but it's sort of film soundtracks but also horror films but this is not scary it's not scary it's very very very beautiful i mean undeniably um again we'd spent this about war on drugs not much change as has happened across the five albums i mean yeah but when we talked about war on drugs we sort of i implied me you've got two that were really really solid where does he go next and maybe we also discussed what's a gap well interestingly enough this this lot did have a gap 13 years which seems to be about right and in 2026 their most recent album inferno came out which is absolutely more of the same But again, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, in their case, because I thought Inferno was just as good as music has the right to children, which is a wonderful title, by the way, from 1998, which is their debut.

You've then got, in the middle of all that, you've got Geodaddy, 2002, I think, The Campfire Headphase, which was 2005, then Tomorrow's Harvest, that I've already mentioned, and now Inferno.

All much of a muchness, but all a very, very interesting uh sonic palette uh melancholy edgy like you say not not not danceable at all i can't what what would it be like to to experience this sort of as a concert i don't know does it need to be you know dream like yeah yeah definitely i mean Trippy, I guess, would

explore the other ones, but I would start with their first album.

Yeah.

Music has the right to children.

Yeah, it is.