Music Has The Right To Children

enjoyed it but it didn't blow me away. Love the title and the band's name though.

Another tough-to-rate album, but thankfully in a much better way than, say, Roni Size/Reprazent's epic-sized "New Forms". I have a bit of a soft spot for interesting ambient music, and this definitely fits that description to a tee, and I liked it that there was a sense that this was an album of loosely-adjacent songs/tracks/whatever-you-can-call-them. But while this isn't exactly the weird conundrum of Brian Eno's "Music for Airports" (as in, is this really music meant for listening to?), many of the tracks kind of veer into that territory. And it suffers from the same limitations of most ambient music, which is just that it's hard to actively listen to this album as it seems designed to be in the background. Either way, though, I really enjoyed the entire experience from these Scottish brothers, and some of the tracks' very creepy samples of distorted voices (apparently mainly from North American PBS shows) kind of invoked a sad Northern European horror movie; my favorites are probably super creepy "The color of the fire", "Telephasic workshop", "Sixtyten", the too-short "Roygbiv", "Aquarius" and the strangely upbeat bonus track "Happy cycling". So maybe it's not that hard to rate after all, given how much I enjoyed it.

I'm very conflicted about this album. I liked all the sounds I was hearing. But, with maybe 1-2 exceptions, this album didn't go anywhere. "Here's a cool beat" *5-6 minutes go by* *same beat fades out* "Pete Standing Alone" was honestly the only song that truly felt like a song, and not just hold music. I liked the sounds, but wish they actually did something.

2 oder 3

I couldn't really tell you what any of this was, but it sets a good atmosphere and is pleasantly hypnotic. I liked the sort of cosy-creepy fuzziness, and though I didn't like the first half much, it really gets cooking in the second half.

Only able to hear this on my phone today as without electricity all day. Some tracks were ok but as many weren't. I like electronic/synthesised music generally but some of the beats here were just too repetitive. They start with promise but don't seen to go anywhere e.g. Kaini Industries and Telephasic Workshop. Rue the Whirl was one of the worst with more than the first half exactly the same droning beat before any change On the other hand Aquarius, Roygbiv and Open the Light were better by omitting the incessant hip-hop type rhythm. Probably need to hear it again via proper speakers or at least headphones but on first listen, 6/10.

I was looking forward to this as BoC were very popular with friends when I was growing up but I just never got into them. Unfortunately, I am still not amazed by them. The record was okay when it was more something to listen to in the background however, it sometimes just got a bit annoying. So basically sometimes to boring to listen to intently and sometimes too annoying to ignore.

I absolutely love Boards of Canada, part of the Warp holy trinity of early alphabet all-time super duper acts, alongside Aphex Twin and Autechre. Their debut isn't my favourite, but it's still a fantastic listen, the trick of combining hip-hop inspired beats with woozy ambient soundscapes still sounding as fresh now as as it did a quarter of a century ago. 'Roygbiv' is the track you play to people who don't know/like this sort of thing, 'Aquarius', 'Telephasic Workshop', and 'Turqouise Hexagon Sun' are three of their career best tunes, but really I love it all.

Fairly interesting, wouldn’t be bad background music except for the few tracks with repetitive vocals. I don’t know enough about why the political statement was added, but I dig it.

Why are there so many late 90's UK electronic artists on this list?! Man was this album boring. It's mostly ambient sounds and the same looping beat played over and over again. Maybe you can use this as background music in a student film.

Where ate the dynamics? There seems to be two levels of dynamics, boring and really boring. Very flat and uninspired.

It was alright but I occasionally felt like I was being put on hold

They're not even Canadian...

I’m far too late for the Boards of Canada party. I only discovered the band in 2026 through their latest album "Inferno".On first listening, their debut album "Music Has the Right to Children" is even more abstract and austere, yet fascinating at the same time. It's an impressive debut and definitely a reason to delve into the band’s entire discography.

- Atmospheric, ambient vibe. I tried listening to it in the bath one time (before today), and it didn't really fit that vibe because, like someone else said, there's a bit of an eeriness to it. - Overall, I enjoyed the soundscapes, especially after the first disc ended (my least favourite of the 4, minus the cool Telephasic Workshop). The album felt too long for me, and I would basically cut out most of that first disc. - I'm going to go through some of the things that I didn't love, but I don't want it to sound like I didn't like the album. Overall, I find it interesting and hypnotic, though I definitely like some songs more than others. - Some of the higher register synth tones feel kind of shrill to me (e.g., Turquoise Hexagon Sun, Olson). - I mostly don't love the vocal/talking samples (especially the kid voices, e.g., Color of the Fire, Aquarius). In general, I wish the album was fully instrumental. - Also, put me in the I don't get the title camp. - For me, it's a 3.5, but I think I'll round up since I ended up listening to it a few times.

pretty creepy

I like me some downtempo, chill IDM. I prefer more modern versions of this genre, but this list has none of those. And artists like BoC are really the precursors of this type of sound.

Is this pedophile music? Either way, it’s awful.

Sind ziemlich coole electronic Ambient beats. Cooles Sampling auch

Life’s too short and this list is TOO long for another EDM record.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Oh good, more electronica. There are times this project feels like being dragged to a rave that I don't care to attend, but everyone else is going so I end up tagging along. I am sure "real" music fans will state they like this album. They very well could. For me, it was elevator music and I have no intention of revisiting this. Music Has the Right to Children is not as aggressive as other electronica and is the shoegaze version of the genre, but I have had enough of it and I don't see a reason to hear this album unless you want to pretend you enjoy "real" music. Roygbiv sounded (initially) like something that would be on the Stranger Things soundtrack.

It's like DJ music, i don't hate it but I also don't know what the hell I'm listening to so like, probably 2 stars

meh, not for me. might have just been my mood...

Honestly a tough listen, wasnt able to get through it in the environment, maybe in a different setting but not while working. I think this deserves an active relisten.

1/1

I've gotten more into ambient music recently so I enjoyed this much more than the first time I heard it. Perfect album to chill out to yet still engaging. Favorite track: Turquoise Hexagon Sun

Down voted by bud light Americans who should be more worried that evolution has stopped in their country. Nice album, ambient sounds.

A really mixed album for me. A few songs were nice and easy to listen to but most of them I didn't really vibe with. I can't specify what I didn't like. I just wanted to switch songs and see if the next one was better. Most of the time it wasn't. I can se where it inspired later artist but I would much rather listen to them instead.

This album was right place right time. I knew the name but had not really listened to them, but the music was the right mix of chill, engaging and varied to appeal to my tired, rainy morning. I will check out more!

Listened to most of this while in the car playing games on my phone while waiting for church to start, and this seemed like good music for that activity. I'm just not into this genre and that's OK. Everyone doesn't have to like everything. Funnily enough, yesterday I also got a digest e-mail from Reddit that included a post in the 1001 Albums group where someone was complaining about this list not including enough electronic music. Just minutes before seeing it, I had told my wife (while listening to today's album) "This guy likes electronic music a lot." So I guess it's a matter of perspective...

The original release of this record has 17 tracks, and that is the version I listened to. Boards of Canada is two guys from Scotland, and they do electronic music. The album title is confusing, although I do like some of the song titles. As for the music, it’s too much of the same thing. The album would benefit by shortening some tracks.

Now we're talking. Actually, although boards of canada are on a lot of my electro playlists and mixes and whatnot, I've always found them boring and background-music-y. But I have never listed to a full album, so let's see. OK, I still feel this way. It's pleasant but definitely not a 100% attention kind of listening experience for me. Lotta color + shape talk (in the titles). Highlight: the title 'Rue the Whirl' is like something I would come up with (therefore: good)

11,5 bon ambient

A new band for me. I liked it.

I don't know, I was really taken by this sound

What a bore

Probably one to revisit and listen again - as it stands just some solid chillaxation

1. 3 2. 4 3. 3.5 4. 4.5 5. 4 6. 5 7. 4.5 8. 3.5 9. 2.5 10. 5 11. 4.5 12. 5 13. 4 14. 5 15. 3.5 16. 4.5 17. 3.5

I nuovi king dell’ambient

Good work music

It’s just frigging noise. Annoying and distracting noise. Needs a negative score.

Enjoyment: 8/10 Replayability: 6/10 Cohesion: 7/10 Flow/Pacing: 7/10 Artistic Merit: 8/10 Weighted Average: 7.25/10 Review: I'm actually surprised how much I liked this. I dig ambient, electric keyboard music, but this gives early synthwave vibes, which is a subgenre of synth music that I love. The samples were fun to listen to, especially in Aquarius. Overall, a relaxing album that I'll pick up again while I'm working. Liked Song(s): An Eagle In Your Mind, Roygbiv, Aquarius, One Very Important Thought, Happy Cycling Disliked Song(s): (None) Recommend? Yes Heard Before? No

This website’s obsession with shite 90s trip-hop will be the death of me.

Background noise: the album

Might need to give this more time, but I am not seeing much here. Maybe it was hugely influential in the electronic music world, but that doesn’t make it great Frankly, it’s far from it.

Whoa this takes me back. I tried this and bounced off it about fifteen years ago. I would listen to it on my commute for a bit and I think it invaded my dreams when I would sleep on the bus. Revisiting it now, and it's all banger after banger. This is perfect 6am driving to the gym vibes, as well as driving through a sunny afternoon vibes.

I’m more of a Sigur Ros fan, the band is a bit too sedate for me. However, it’s excellent background music.

Weird stuff but I like it. Scottish producers naming their band Canada though? Not for the geographically challenged American

This music gave me anxiety I had to turn it off

I think this tried to take me to strange places in my mind, but I wasn’t high enough to get there.

This was incredible! Almost didn't make 5 stars, because I have no idea what situation I'd play this in. But it was so good!

Are you fucking kidding me I'm just over all the electronica bullshit. I was already agitated coming into this one and instead of soothing me like I think was the goal it just made me more agitated instead. Someone smarter or maybe more patient or something could probably tell me what I'm missing but as it stands this was just a big waste of time for me. 1/10 this is about to be my worst reviewed month if the last few days doesn't pick it up. If I get another electronica album in that time I'm going to scream.

Perhaps I wasn’t listening closely enough, or maybe I’m too used to these sounds… it seems like this album was incredibly influential. But nothing really captured my attention. Every now and then, I’d listen more closely. And it made me think of my own worst impulses as an electronic musician: playing repetitive beats with microscopic changes that only I like or notice. Perhaps I’ll listen again and reconsider, but for now, I found it quite middling.

I see electronic music from the UK and my hackles get raised. Too much of it on the list, all the same, no real meat. So I decided to for the first time skip an album. But then I think I've already tried so many that what's one more? And I try it and its outstanding and sound like what Radiohead had playing while feeding the masterpieces Kid A and Amnesiac. Loses one point for being very long but man is this a reminder to not hit skip

Tuskastuttavan tylsää taustahälyä. Tunnin kesto tuntui ankaralta.

Strangely enough I kind of liked it. Very relaxing and would be good to listen to for falling asleep.

Sadly I am not Boards-of-Canada-Pilled so this didn’t do as much for me as I thought it would - still great but not their best (that goes to Campfire Headphase what a god damn bop)

Bored of Canada more like

This is exactly the sort of album I knew everyone on here would hate, and that I'm very smug that I love.

So bored

I'm not sure how to rate this because it almost certainly is a good album but my brain just does not like the sounds and is trying to escape out my ears

👓🍁🔊🗯️🫧

pleasant enough, but very background music. Wingspan music but 20% more turnt (still not very turnt)

lovely bit of ambient. I'll listen to this again for sure

I was listening to this while driving and started worrying that it would put me to sleep and I'd crash the car. But then I thought, if i crashed the car I might die and I wouldn't have to listen to this album anymore...so, swings and roundabouts

Amazing atmosphere. Love the slightly worn sounding synths with those drums. Very much my thing.

It's giving aphex twin.

Down right depressing

Listened to 1 and half songs and couldn't carry on.

I really like this band and I was very happy. I was ready to give it a 5 right away. But when I listened to this album it turned out that there are only few songs actually worth listening to and those was the ones I knew before. This was a sad day :-(

I feel like I got it by the end, but I'm still not convinced that I can love music this atmospheric.

Chill/BPM electronica

This was cool, I'm not usually one of those people who wants like a lo-fi background playlist but I enjoyed this Playlist: "Roygbiv"

Maybe a 3 when you're on acid but not my kind of thing

(2/5) I tried. I really did, but this is just so fucking boring. It's not even that good as 'mood music' (which I wasn't in the 'mood' for..) as far as my ears can tell. It's like a worse Tron Soundtrack. This project has definitely shown me I really don't have any taste for this type of music. I really doubt I ever did, but now I KNOW I don't. It didn't piss me off, but boy did it fade into the background. I couldn't tell you what it even sounded like after the listen. Just fade away, please.

This one is very, very hard to give the benefit of the doubt to, particularly considering how much great stuff like it came before (mostly introduced to me by this list). Also, it feels very monotonous and repetitive with every track sounding like an ever-so-slightly different version of the one before it. While I don't hate it, it hits its head on a 2.5/5 that I won't round up.

203. Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada (1998) 9.13.26 Variety: 3 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 5 Emotionality: 3 = 4.2 rounded down to a 4 "We'll sail into the stars/ We'll sail into the stars/ We'll sail into the stars/ We'll sail into the stars" "The holts are nearly always close to the sea in fallen boulders, old ruins, in cliffs Or at the top of a stack, like this- high above the sea: A safe place for cubs" This is one that I heard way back when I started to get more into ambient and related genres, and was listening to stuff like Godspeed You Black Emperor, lots of modern more electronic soundtracks, and I got really into them for a while. Enough so that I would play this album as background music when reading or just at work. It became a bed of relaxing, slightly spooky noise that I could sit in for an hour or so. It also le me to discovering other weirdo ambient stuff like Hiroshi Yoshimura, and David Bickley and Tom Green, as well as introducing me to the concept of hauntology, which then led to finding artists like the Caretaker. When this came out in 1998 it was just as forward looking as it was backwards looking, and in theme and concept I think was very ahead of the game in anticipating that late 2010's revival and then flood of hauntologically adjacent art projects that focused on liminal spaces - the Candle Cove Creeypasta, the Backrooms videos, the Dungeon Synth and vaporwave subgenres of music, films like Skinamarink, I Saw the TV Glow, and even down to kids video games like Five Nights at Freddy's. The concept that the ill-remembered past is a well of uncomfortably creepy nostalgia is mainly mined for horror now, but when this came out it was more about awe and strange beauty found in the warbly, analog past that was going extinct. All of this stuff appeals to me on a gut level, and if I had to reach in and try and wrestle with why that is, I might say that it speaks very strongly to the nostalgia of childhood where there was still mystery left in the world. Without sounding too much like a luddite or some sad "things were better" proponent, I feel I just happened to be at the right age to experience that sense of comfortable eeriness that came with only seeing a movie by chance, sometime partially so that you misunderstood plot points, or playing a weird video game at a friends house that you found weird and interesting, but never saw again, but have always wondered about. It's the feeling of having a VHS tape of Ridley Scott's Legend suddenly drop into slow motion and the audio and video sound like Tim Curry's demon character is trying to crawl out of the tv and then realize the tape just got eaten. It's that dream sequence in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness of the grainy tape of the mystery figure emerging from a blue light, rewound over and over again, and played on repeat. All that stuff could still be just a tiny bit scary and weird, but also exciting, and that feeling is so rare and hard to come by now when it seems like the only scares we get are so unspectacularly real and sad, that it makes you long for the thrill of being creeped out by waking up to the static on your CRT TV at 2:00 AM. It's probably been more than a decade since I've heard this one all the way through, but I hope I can get some of those vibes off it still. THE TRACKS "Wildlife Analysis" - It's immediately all coming back with this short track. The wistful yet uncanny, and still relaxing atmosphere is all there. This feels like waking up on a cool Fall morning and looking out your window to see a herd of deer all gathered on your lawn. Pretty majestic but are you still dreaming? The hazy pastoral feel remains intact as we cut away just before they all simultaneously stop to look up and stare you with their the cold, empty black eyes. "An Eagle in Your Mind" - Your in a cavernous dark place. A phantom church organ echoes around while some looped trip hop beats play, maybe on a discarded Walkman that's nearby. If you fumble in the dark you might be able to find it. But then another beat comes in, this one has a fat, sizzling bass to it and is emanating from your own head. A barely audible distorted voice is there. Is it trying to tell you to wake up, guide you through the maze of dark tunnels, or is it just reading instructions of some sort? "The Color of the Fire" - The ghost child is back. Don't look at it! You saw it once out of the corner of your eye, flickering in the dark, it's body made up of wobbly vhs scanlines. It'll go away in just a minute or two if you can wait it out. For god's sake though, keep the covers over your head. "Telephasic Workshop" - "Zoom in on a small van, labelled in French as the 'Laboratorie Municipal'; A scientist in a white lab coat sits inside, studying test tubes running into a large machine, with the public seen through an orange window besides him. Close ups on bubbling test tubes and beakers, part of an experiment. A box for housing animals on a podium in a river. A sticker labelling it as owned by the US government. Scientists in lab coats use pipettes to drop liquid into a beaker." "Triangles & Rhombuses" - "The line of a reflectional symmetry cuts the square into two pieces which are interchanged by that reflection. The line of a reflectional symmetry cuts the square into two pieces which are interchanged by that reflection. Perpendicular Reflections generate a group of order four, consisting of the identity two reflections and their product. This product is a half turn. two mirrors set on lines of symmetry intersecting at angle Pi/4 generate the square from 1/8 of the square. With every cube is associated a regular octahedron. The nine planes of symmetry meet a concentric sphere." "Sixtyten" - "Armature laminations are formed from metal strips continuously fed into multi tool presses. They're then automatically stacked and passed the armature core assembly. After this the winding is fitted in the shape of a series of preformed coils connecting the end conductors of these coils to the commutator fathers. After being soldered and impregnated they are growler tested. From here the armature is passed through yet another examination thence secondsto assembly into complete machines." "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" - "This is Gemini COntrol - The weather in the Cape Area at scheduled lift-off time of 9 AM EST is predicted to be partly cloudy with scattered and broken clouds conditions , winds of l0 mph from the SE, visibility of seven miles. Wave heights in this Cape area expects to be 2 to 4 ft. and the temperature predicted for lift-off is 68 degrees. In the down-range recovery area the Weather is also reported as satisfactory. In the prime recovery area at the end of the third orbit, winds are running 15 to 20 MPH, the waves 3 to 5 ft. The visibility 10 miles." "Kaini Industries" - "Unlike many of today's adults, the next generation will accept computers as normal and use them without hesitation or fear. One of the most important uses of the home computers is as educational toys even very young children can interact and learn from. This child is learning about shapes but perhaps more importantly she is learning about computers. To motivate the children, attractive and easy to use graphics must be available. The computer can access teaching material on its own discs and combine this text with pictures. These systems will revolutionize computer assisted learning." "Bocuma" - "The results of this method can be clearly seen in this comparison of two plants, one of which has been bred to resist the disease. The study of insects and of disease has resulted in the production of a vast range of insecticides and fungicides. Insects are bred in large numbers in order to observe the ways in which they attack the plant. Before the new chemical compounds can be produced on a commercial basis they must undergo a series of tests to show the potential of the product at varying strengths." "Roygbiv" - "This is Pat. He likes to paint. He has a lot to say and he likes to say it with color. Sometimes he draws with crayons, but best of all he likes thick tempera paint. A few strong colors and black are all he needs to make a good picture. He's not very careful about mixing the colors. Pat explains that you must let one color dry before the next one is put over it. Pat has learned a lot at school about making pictures because his teacher is ready to help him express his thoughts and feelings. Of course the first step in having real fun with pictures is to be properly equipped." "Rue the Whirl" - "External respiration as we have seen takes place in the lungs. Internal respiration takes place in every cell of the body blood which has circulated in the lungs. Let us look at part of a muscle, in this case the type of muscle which enables the body to move. Such muscles are made up of bundles of fibers supplied with blood from an extensive network of capillary blood vessels. As blood passes slowly along the capillaries, oxygen leaves the hemoglobin of the red blood cells and enters the muscle fiber as it gives up oxygen the blood becomes darker" "Aquarius" - "You will need the shape board and some rubber bands. Now fill each box with sand using a cubic inch. The problem has reality and it has interest for the child. We must accept that they learn at this level purely through concrete situations, things which they can do and handle and touch and not through a world of abstract symbolism and things devoid of reality. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand, and it's this understanding that we're after." "Olson" - "Millions of years ago a vast sea covered all of Western Canada. Then very slowly islands began to appear as the bottom of the sea was forced upward. As the land continued to rise, the islands joined together to form a solid mass of land. This new land is now known as the coastal mountains. Since there are so few people and roads are so hard to build the opening up of the interior of the mountain region is a long slow process. But by using modern machines and modern methods the people of the mountain region are building roads into areas that were once considered too difficult to reach." "Pete Standing Alone" - "my grandfather used to bring me here when I was a kid. It's the older people think it's important to come here. They were born in teepees, and they know what the signs mean. In my great-grandfather's time there were still herds of antelope and buffalo on the plains and every man was a hunter and the tribe had thousands of horses. I remember when it got hot we used to run over to the belly river and jump in the cold water up to our necks." "Smokes Quantity" - Fires involving loss of life nearly always reveal some human mistake or failure to follow the rules. In the event of fire, knowledge of the correct sequence of actions designed to protect you and your patients is essential, and if you are to carry out this sequence correctly it's necessary for you to understand fire. The use of makeshift fuses in plugs is common. This is dangerous. Correct fuses should always be fitted and all repairs carried out by a qualified electrician. Always report defects immediately. Now let's look at likely places for fires to start or risk areas as they are called." "Open the Light" -let us watch a total eclipse of the sun. The clouds darken and the false semi-twilight announces the approach of totality. Through the telescope totality itself let us look at this again, stopping the camera at certain points. Just before totality we see a thin crescent of the sun's chromosphere. This is a gaseous atmosphere around the sun. The spots at the opposite edge are called prominences. Here are the prominences shown in detail with a special lens. They are really tremendously hot portions of the chromosphere thrown out in long, flame-like tongues with explosive violence they can travel outwards as far as a quarter of a million miles." "One Very Important Thought" - "One ounce of LSD makes 300,000 doses. An amount of LSC the size of an aspirin tablet can make 3,000 doses. The normal dose is a hundred micrograms. An experienced chemist has no difficulty in making it at home, however we have found that this amateur stuff contains many other substances dangerous and is often deadly. The strength of this amateur stuff is always uncertain it may contain none or ten or a hundred or three hundred or maybe 3,000 micrograms. We have produced convulsions and death in animals with large doses of LSD. Nevertheless, in spite of the risk, the word was out - LSD was it. One pill and all unhappiness with vanishes. The real meaning of existence would become quickly clear." NOTE: All text in quotes taken and remixed from educational videos from the Huntley Film Archives, official NASA mission transcripts, and narration by Pete Standing Alone from the Canada NFB documentary from Circle of the Sun. FINAL THOUGHTS If you bothered to read any of these, did they bore you? Were you annoyed at the repetition, and did the similarity make you inpatient? I would think for a lot of people, even listening to the best of this type of music could evoke a similar response. It's definitely not meant for active listening. At least in my opinion. This is the sort of thing I could thrown on while doing a mind numbing task, or use as a sleep aid. Or just to relax to. And that's partly why I could not justify giving it much of a higher rating. I love it, and I'm glad I listened to it as it proved to be a good gateway to a lot of other stuff. But I've found so much that I like better than this, and while it's very, very good still, it just can't compete with the ones I think truly deserve that 5. Note: I would recommend finding a version where it plays continuously if you can so when tracks flow into one another you get the seemless quality and not the hard cuts that can take you out of the vibe. Possible turn-Offs might include: - repetitive motifs - bleeps and bloops - long run time - a bit of a pretentious vibe You Might enjoy this if you: - like ambient stuff - are into weird, experimental, but still accessible music - enjoy the eerie and uncomfortable - lean more into the abstract than the concrete PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Nah. FURTHER LISTENING - I Hear a New World by Joe Meek - Ambient 4: On Land by Brian Eno - Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura - Uchū Nippon Setagaya by Fishmans - Erebus and Terror by David Bickley and Tom Green - Haha Sound by Broadcast - Shake Hands with Danger by TRS-80 - Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom by the Caretaker - Caverns of Endless by Erdstall - Mark of the Worm by Landsraad

Inoffensive and ambient 2/5 That has been my assessment of most of these ambient type albums. It doesn’t say much to me, but it was fine to fall asleep to so there is that.

It’s not terrible, just boring and uninteresting. I never felt compelled to hit stop, but my brain tuned it out at some point

One of the best electro-ambient albums ever made. 5 rats (apparently).

this is music for the dead

4,5 stars

Not bad....but not their best

Boring, electronic crap but not without a low sort of artistry.

Too many beeps and boops. I keep thinking I could get into this, similar thoughts to what I had when first listening to The Avalanches... "How the hell is this music"? Which eventually clicked for me, while this has not A couple of standouts here and there, but a long nostalgic album for some that falls short for me

Otherworldly and even today, it sounds like the future. Equal parts calming and unsettling, there's an introspection and immersion to these songs that set the stage for the next 20 years of electronic music, at least. There's something about the album cover of the faceless family, the allusions to nature and the snippets of found audio from Sesame Street and elsewhere that evokes the search for a past that is steadily disappearing. Identity dissolving and reforming from nothing like naturally forming crystals.

Ambient electronica has its place; but it’s nit on the list of “1001 albums you must listen to …”. This could be passingly interesting or astonishingly boring, depending on one’s mood. For me, it’s a 2.

This band's name should be spelled B-o-r-e-d-s of Canada (RIP Norm). Really dry, semi-ambient electronica album that tested my patience. An hour and twelve minutes is too long for any album, let alone something as inconsequential as this. Droning beats and sleepy mixes do not make for a good listen, but it's still better than the low bar set by The Shamen, so it's a low 2/5

This made me loathe the sound of children’s laughter. It is genuinely, thoroughly, pointless. It only serves to steal your time.

Infelizmente não rolou

Over an hour of pure torture. I hate electronic music. It all sounded the same. No lyrics. It sucked.

Some cool beats but a dud in totality

It's near-ambient electronic music, which I'm not against, but it didn't really catch me. I eventually was waiting for it to finish, which isn't a good sign. I wouldn't say it's a bad album, but I prefer most albums on the list over this.

1.5 it sounds like video game cut scene music for the My Dinner With Andre video game

A beautiful record that earns is place in this list with ease. I listened to this as a 16 year old and it was so far above my pay grade it passed me by. Returning to it later when i had begun to enjoy electronica and ambient i realised what a seminal album this is. Listening now, i'm amazed at how timeless it sounds and still holds up. The confidence to take something relatively new in musical terms and apply it so effectively, simply and confidently is where the genius lies. This synth, sample and programmed beats combo alongside other ethereal sound sounds like modern classicsl music as it swells and ebbs and hypnotises. Its not a pop record with hooks, but a journey in sound that leaves you better than when it found you. A lot of my favourite music built from here so i am a big fan

This is why I am on this list. An album I don't have the patience to listen to all the way through that makes me sit down and listen to it, and I'm grateful for it. There are albums on here that are more traditional pop albums that are more repetitive and boring then this. They seem to know how to create music that changes just enough to keep the music interesting, and they also seem to understand when to end a song. This is what I want Brian Eno to be. Also so many musicians I like now I hear they blatantly stole sounds from this album. its really good.

Apparently, it’s TripHop Week and 1001! I didn’t hate this album, but I didn’t particularly care for it either. If I was in a different mood and hadn’t just got done listening to Throbbing Grizzle album may enjoy this one a little more. Also, if it would have been half the length. Some of the songs on here like Rue the Whirl felt like the artist had listened to Revolution #9 too many times and decided to update it for a modern audience. Overall this was…okay, but I don’t think I’ll ever come back looking for it.

Random thoughts: * I had actually heard of and listened to this one before as it kept coming up on hidden alternative/electronic gems. * I wasn’t overly impressed when I listened before but I actually liked it better this time around. Was it because it followed Throbbing Gristle? Maybe. * anyway, I listened to it several times with the each listen growing on me more. * Roygbiv was probably my favorite track but all the tracks have good flow and cohesion throughout. * it reminded me of a Caribou album I love. Not quite as good as that one but has a similar feeling about it. A kind of sad and melancholy feeling. * I’ll be back to this one again.

I enjoyed this. It's exactly what you would expect from Boards of Canada: quite intricate deep electro. It never really gets too carried away like a lot of similar artists or bands. Overall I liked it and I'll definitely be back. I definitely prefer Inferno, which is my favorite Boards of Canada record, and I probably just edge Tomorrow's Harvest. With Boards of Canada, even for me, it's one of those bands where you've got to be in the mood to listen. Sometimes I really love them and sometimes I don't, so I imagine my opinion might fluctuate. Overall this is great and I really enjoyed it