A seminal release which gained the introspective, mysterious sounds of
Boards of Canada a powerful following, and helped define Warp’s place in
electronic music’s hall of fame.
The album created a strange influence in its singular combination of hip-hop
rhythms and more nostalgic elements drawn from a mid-20th century electronic
culture that was distinctly British and remains a cornerstone for countless
musicians today, where naïve synth lines and crunching hip-hop beats manage to
induce the listener to a state at once pastoral and urban, recalling the past
while avoiding mere replication of it.
Music Has the Right to Children offers a rich and mind-boggling a listen, and one cannot comprehend the landscape of contemporary electronic culture without it.
“Boards of Canada’s 1998 album is a beat-music touchstone, a record that took the previous decade of home-listening electronic music and essentially perfected it” 10 PITCHFORK