from the LP Twoism, Music 70 Records, 1995With the possible exceptions of Eno and mid ‘70s Tangerine Dream, I don’t think any other musicians on this planet have been able to coax such sincere & glowing warmth from a synthesizer the way that Boards of Canada seemingly do in their sleep; honestly, anyone who listens to this stuff and can still walk away claiming that electronic music has no soul needs to get their fucking head checked. It’s the feel of a light snow falling at dawn, the journey of a single dandelion seed drifting about on the breeze, electrical currents moving along their neural pathways inside your brain. The ethereal moods and distanced memories their songs invoke can carry me away at a moments notice, and indeed, there is no “having to be in the right frame of mind” for enjoying this music, as it’s equally able to quell the gnarliest psychic storms or instantly deepen the calmest, most isolated moments in time. Half-assed metaphors aside (sorry, heavy wake-n-bake here this morning… word), for me it all comes down to the same basic measure I apply to anything else in life: this music makes me feel.
