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It is 1998 and, in Europe, the record label Warp Records releases Music Has the Right to Children, the debut studio album by the Scottish duo Boards of Canada, composed of brothers Michael and Marcus Sandison.
Twenty years after its release, music critic Simon Reynolds paid tribute to the duo with an article published on the New York webzine Pitchfork, titled Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s.





The quintessential psychedelic album of the 1990s features numerous samples from 1970s and ’80s cartoons, particularly those from Sesame Street and the National Film Board of Canada, the Canadian public film production company—from which the name Boards of Canada is derived.

At the bottom, in a marginal note on the debut CD, it reads: Boards of Canada believe that everyone should try trepanation.