Boards Of Canada
Music Has The Right To Children

If I had lived in 1969... let's say if I were born in 1943 so I would be the same age in 1969, next to the framed cover of The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, I would definitely have placed the photo of my Scottish friends Boards Of Canada. And if my always-acid-freak friends came to visit me, with some INTERTWINING of ginseng roots and primroses in their hair, and they asked me "and who are these?", I would have answered them "this is the evolution of our beloved psychedelia, that is, it's the psychedelia that will daze the kids in 2080, offspring of that era" and they "wow, but did you live in that era?" and I "no, I'm actually from 2005, but know that the Boards come straight from 2080 in 1998 and they claim to have brought the sound of the routine of their metropolises in CD format. In these megacities, people love each other and work 3 hours a day, then enjoy the silence. The services are super efficient, there's always a shuttle to Mars every 10 minutes, while an ocean liner to Pluto departs at most every two hours. The buildings have 400 floors but are 3 meters high, this is because at the entrance there is a size reducer that makes everyone who enters 2 cm tall... you know, in the future there are space issues. And there will still be fields, what do you think?! Fields where couples lie down at dusk and watch the spaceships improvise a folk dance, on the occasion of the patron saint's day."

Boards Of Canada tell us all this, not in words, but with their melodies that couldn't be more liquid. So liquid that you'll only understand them on the seventh listen, surprised by their simplicity, but damn, they were hidden beneath the beats! If for example, you listen to Roygbiv, you'll understand that music can be perfect, even if it's only 2.30 minutes long, in which various melodic INTERTWININGS overlay to make you feel good. The effect of a drug, I'm not kidding. The Boards, dear friends of mine, just want to tell us that the haste and media control of our times will not always get worse, as Orwell and Dick want us to believe, but there will be a day when we will conquer the peace we so hoped for."

Do you understand why Thom Yorke, after ordering the entire Warp catalog, came out with Kid A? This is from '98 and in 2002 this fantastic duo will come out with an even more psychedelic album, maybe even better, right Cleo? :)