stripesworths wrote:My take would be that all of the early tape music of BOC are shit but it's probably because of the sound quality and how it probably makes it OBJECTIVELY sound like shit.
Other than that, the sort of more trip-hop feel that Music Has The Right To Children had, especially with the scratching and more heavy sample usage should've 100% been expanded upon more and I feel like they'd be a more interesting group if they continued with that sound. Not for the rest of their discography but just for another album and maybe an EP with a transitory period into the sound they develop on Geogaddi.
man i disagree so much on this. While i still appreciate every moment of every one of their records, i find the more traditional electronic, beat centered elements so boring and lame. Those elements also are precisely what have not aged well at all. What the band’s true creative genius export has always been is melody within songwriting. True duende, if you will. This is almost always most evident within the negative spaces, vignettes etc. I think the closest they have come to who they really are is Campfire. I have believed for many years that their final form would be a seriously heavy lean into those colors- an evil 70s pagan folk record of sorts. The traditional trip hop, IDM element in my opinion is boring and dweeby.
Also, all the old tunes records, while certainly not the best albums, are definitely the most interesting.