Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s | Pitchfork
pitchfork.compitchfork.comSaved by Jonathan Simcoe
Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s | Pitchfork
Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
You could read a song like “Idioteque” as a song about the evils of consumerism. (“Here I’m alive / everything all of the time.”) Or you could experience it as the primal manifestation of a collective subconscious that just happened to come out of Thom Yorke’s mouth when he was in a recording studio. I suspect he would prefer the latter.