Child's View - Funfair (Bubble Core, 1999)

I remember simpler times, when Aphex Twin was our greatest new discovery, and we would listen to Boards of Canada while getting high on our way to marching band “parties”. The cops would only show up at the geekiest trombonist’s house, and we would have to play it cool. We were still only children, having been in high school for three years, but we wanted to reclaim our true childhood. Now our taste stretches beyond those of Pitchfork’s preordained “classics” and blogs are our main source of musical nutrition. We have jobs and responsibilities and wish we weren’t such pricks in high school. Still, that feeling of nostalgia creeps in every once in awhile, and that’s about the time we throw on Funfair by Child’s View. To me, this record is for being nostalgic about nostalgia. Aphex, Fennesz, Gutevolk, B.O.C.’s fascination with childhood, and the soundtrack to Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic all come to mind at various points throughout the record. Put it on on a lazy Sunday afternoon and feel like your age creep forward in time.