Widely hailed as one of electronic music’s most emotive acts, Boards of Canada have amassed legions of devotees across the genre aisles.
Building a quintessential sound that melded nostalgic, retro-flavoured samples with dense, enveloping atmospheres, interspersed with tranquil melodies and skittering breaks, Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin established their own space within the diversifying electronic music scene of the 1990s.
It was music that facilitated a comforting sense of introspection, beginning with their widely acclaimed debut Music Has the Right to Children in 1998.
