The other thing that separated Music Has the Right from contemporaneous releases by apparent peers like Autechre and Two Lone Swordsmen was the record’s overall sound design, which broke with the clean, clear, clinical aura of the era. Instead, BoC used a mixture of analog and digital techniques to give their music a wavering, mottled quality

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CG: Intentionally rotting your brain in order to make pop music is kind of like method acting, but for music.

ND: It unfortunately really worked—but at what cost? I’m stupid now. I can feel the lag in my brain. Was it worth it? You have to sacrifice something to get something else. So yeah, why not?

One of those albums that lived up the hype after a decade plus hiatus. Always good to learn how these kinds of people think.