Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children (Nialler9 Podcast)

The Scottish duo’s 1998 debut album is the subject of this month’s Listen Closely listening party and podcast.

Boards Of Canada’s debut album Music Has The Right To Children on Warp Records/SKAM is a modern classic, a highly evocative collection of music, operating like a fading childhood memory, a creeping nostalgic collage of analogue electronic music, samples from public service broadcasting programming, with inspirations from to hip-hop beats, ambient techno and psychedelia.

Join Niall and Andrea to discuss the liminal legacy of Music Has The Right To Children, and discover how library music, Sesame Street and nature documentaries all inform the album, and we chat about the album’s childhood nostalgia, and its preoccupation with memory.

Join us at the Big Romance on Wednesday October 30th for our Listening Party for the album. You won’t want to miss the chance to hear this on vinyl as loud as possible!

The Listen Closely series of listening party nights in The Big Romance, featuring a focus album from an artist we love on the last Wednesday of every month. It’s a chance to appreciate a modern classic album played loud on vinyl through the bar’s beautiful Toby Hatchett soundsystem with a chat about the record before and after, whether you know it and love it, or if it’s brand new to you.

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Show notes

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