There are records you grow into, and there are records that arrive when you are ready for them. And then there is The KLF’s The White Room. It landed in March 1991 and, much in the way that modern EDM works for kids today, it was the stepping stone from the pop end of electronic music into everything underneath. A gateway record. The first taste of something deeper waiting on the other side.
Thirty-five years on, with everything we now know about Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (the dead sheep, the burning currency, the long retreat into art and rumour), it’s easy to forget that The White Room is, first and last, a serious…
