i remember in 1998, previous to a million blogs and p2p's that allowed to get whatever whenever, when there were a lot of murmurs about boards of canada's then new album on warp records (which was in a bit of a rut at the time). i can honestly say that i was apprehensive to hop on the bandwagon, but a friend of mine somehow got a copy of the 'hi scores' ep on skam (the release previous to 'music has a right') and we listened to it three times back to back to back one night. i ordered the album from a cd store that allowed me to special order anything in their distributor's catalog and were nice enough to call me when things came in (leaving messages trying to pronounce names like funkstorung and nobukazu takemura)

'music has a right' is one of my favorite albums all time. i listened to this a hundred times during college and probably a hundred times since and i can still listen to it today.

for some fun, check out the page and pages of possible religious references throughout their music (including the reason for 'magic window', a silent track at the end of 'geogaddi', and a possible hidden picture of david koresh on the liner art of 'in a beautiful place out in the country').