Love or Hate?

Trollheart · 01-09-2016, 01:35 PM

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.

01-09-2016, 01:35 PM	#10 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	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*. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018*