Music Has the Right to Children

Music Has the Right to Children built its whole world from half-remembered childhood, decayed tape and melodies that seem to have faded before you hear them. Boards of Canada made nostalgia sound faintly sinister, creating one of electronic music's most imitated textures. The second half drifts more than the first, but even that drift belongs to the record's weather. The drift is why it is eighth. The texture is why everyone since has tried to copy it.

Two brothers in rural Scotland turning nostalgia into a production technique. Detuned tape, half-heard children, and an atmosphere so complete that an entire strain of electronic music still cannot escape it.