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01-09-2016, 02:35 PM | #2571 (permalink) |
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Title: Music Has the Right to Children Artiste: Boards of Canada Genre: Electronic, Ambient Familiarity: I've heard, and was not impressed by, Tomorrow's Harvest Recommended by: TechnicLePanther Expectations: It had better be a whole lot better than the other album: that really bored the hell out of me, and given the respect these guys get here, I had expected much more. This is their debut however, so maybe it'll be different. Side note: Why does TLP insist on choosing albums with a million tracks every goddamn time?? 1. Wildlife analysis: Okay, nice ambient opening, quite short 2. An eagle in your mind: Slightly more upbeat, bit more in it, some very sparse vocals, not bad but hasn't convinced me yet. Not crazy about the scratching. 3. The colour of the fire: Nice vibraphone, the usage of children's voices is uber-annoying. Yeah, I really hated that. The colour of the fire is red. 4. Telephasic workshop: This one's alright. Sort of a mix of ambient and some samply/electronica stuff. 5. Triangles and rhombuses: Short, nice relaxed ambient instrumental. Goes a little weird towards the end. 6. Sixtyten: Some cool percussion and some odd samples. Meh. It's okay I guess. 7. Turquoise hexagon sun: Is this Fender Rhodes? Whatever, it's a lovely smooth luxuriant start to the track, which then moves along in a slow, I guess trip-hop way? 8. Kaini Industries: Too short to make any impression 9. Bcomua: Nice little ambient instrumental 10.Roygbiv: Got a kind of progressive rock feel to it, with the squealy keyboard and the sort of loping pace. The one-word vocal sample is again very annoying though. 11. Rue the whirl: Repetitive but kind of entrancing. Like this. I guess you'd class it as trip-hop, would you? 12. Aquarius: Okay, this sounds like it has some potential. Again quite sort of proggy-like, slow beat, warbly synth, nice guitar riffs, very raw. Oh, crap! More ****ty voice samples. Jesus! I know it's called Music Has the Right to Children, but does it have to have so many ****ing samples of kids in it?? Grrr! Gone from Green to White. If that **** says “Orange!” one more ****ing time.... Alright, **** you! It's Red now! Happy you prick? 13. Olson: Pleasant but very short. 14. Pete standing alone: This is good. Uses vocal samples too but they're not annoying. Nice kind of rattling feel to the music. Sweeping synth and ticking percussion. 15. Smokes quantity: Don't like the kind of whiny, screechy nature of this too much. 16. Open the light: This is much nicer. Light piano, guitar and a sort of flutey sound to it. 17. One very important thought: Political crap. Meh. End result: Better than the other album I listened to. Some very good tracks but some really annoying ones. I'm still not sure it would make me a fan of the band, though I might be prepared to listen to something else in the future. Jury's still out, I guess. So, Love or Hate? Overall though, best I can manage is quite a weak Like.
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01-09-2016, 02:52 PM | #2572 (permalink) |
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I normally wouldn't but in this case, I implore you to listen to:
Happy Cycling It was only released on the US release, but today it's considered an essential part of the album. I agree that "One Very Important Thought" doesn't feel interesting enough to be the album closer. Just give it a listen, it's one of their best songs period. Especially the last couple of minutes.
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01-09-2016, 03:26 PM | #2573 (permalink) | |
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01-09-2016, 03:41 PM | #2574 (permalink) |
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Not checking to see if reqs are still being taken. Too tired.
One of the most unique virtuoso rock albums. Nothing else like it.
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I'd just like to point out that Boards of Canada spell "color" without the "u", so you need to change that.
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Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (CD, Album) at Discogs http://rateyourmusic.com/release/alb...t_to_children/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_...ht_to_Children http://www.amazon.com/Music-Has-The-.../dp/B0001RVTWA
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And here's the tracklist from the band's own site. Notice anything?
BOARDS OF CANADA - VINYL REISSUES 2013
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