Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

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In that case, you're welcome.

Regarding the soccer reaction gif: That's Miguel 'Piojo' Herrera. He's the coach of Club America, one of the most popular mexican teams, and believe it or not, he's actually celebrating.

*presses play*

p cool that universal studios put this out

ears hadn't rly been moved to perk up until 'palace posy' (can we stop acting like all these song titles arent fucking woeful btw)

It's sort of a letdown for me, sounds too much like a 90s warp throwback. Don't know what I was expecting, though. As of this moment the only tracks that have caught my attention are cold earth and palace posy.

Boards of Canada in sounding retro shock!

They've always been retro but in their own particular way. Hard to pin a specific era... they just seemed to be channeling a past from a parallel dimension and that was a big part of their appeal, the undistilled nostalgia ready to adhere to whichever memory you please. In this record, though, they're being more specific, at least to my ears. Autechre, Aphex Twin, Plaid... They seem to be clinging to warp's golden years and it ends up sounding dated and uninspired.

futurism's passé, baby

who wants to go to the future, everything will just be more shit then

Is it really wrongheaded that my only reaction to this record, apart from mild boredom, was, "well, i've got a few Emeralds albums so..."

I think the ET track was before that. But it's all a hazy blur now.

I missed the stream today, but I can ID it once I get the album.

Listened again today and I love it - it's right up there with Colorlux' Parch Marque album.

Can confirm that the 'ET Track' referred to above is "Sundown" into "New Seeds" (liked hearing the music from the Numbers Station RSD promo right at the end of that too)

Well, and "Come To Dust" too. That three song run is a movie of it's own.

listened to a rip of the livestream last night, sounds pretty good. will sound even better with a full quality rip i'm sure. 'sick times' and 'come to dust' the early standouts to me

jacquard causeway is nice

Regarding the soccer reaction gif: That's Miguel 'Piojo' Herrera. He's the coach of Club America, one of the most popular mexican teams, and believe it or not, he's actually celebrating.
― Moka,

thank you!

http://www.spin.com/articles/boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest-first-review/?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

I got to this sentence in Philip Sherburne's blurb and felt my eyes bug out so hard I thought I was having an aneurism: Another surprise is how much more rhythmically focused they've become.

I mean... what? Has he not actually listened to Music Has A Right To Children in a while?

It's out in Japan: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/tomorrows-harvest/id642650309?l=en

To celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s album Tomorrow’s Harvest in the UK and Ireland, the following independent record stores will play the album in full at 12.30 pm on release day : http://warp.net/records/boards-of-canada/album-playbacks-uk-and-roi

http://www.factmag.com/2013/06/03/boards-of-canadas-tomorrows-harvest-live-stream-the-best-comments-quips-and-reactions-so-far/

Early "reviews" of this album have made me hate the track-by-track format more than ever ("This happens, then this happens…") and this Rolling Stone one is the absolute worst.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/boards-of-canada-return-with-tomorrows-harvest-track-by-track-20130531

that link gave me a trojan

It's pretty hard to review an album you can only listen to once, which is what happened here I think (?) - the only obvious thing is to jot down notes, hence the track by track format and the lack of flow/pattern type details...

duh - nevermind ("... that stood out on repeat listens")

You can review an album after only one listen and come up with something better than that. People do it all the time with heavily protected playback-only albums.

i'm no superfan and but i live music has the right & geogaddi....but anyway it's hard for me to evaluate Board of Canada but i guess hearing this, much like my reaction to the new MBV (who i'm also a casual fan of) it's a nice reminder that this group has a really cool, distinctive sound and it was nice to hear that sound again

they could do an lp just consisting of tracks like 'semena mertvykh' and it would be one of the best lps

change is bad. This album makes me feel old because I love it because it makes me remember how much I loved BoC when I was 19

so good though

Nonsense young Padawan. This album reminds me of how much I loved BOC - apart from some of the drum programming - when I was 27.

But wait!

On the Japanese CD it says "I OVERFLOW MAN" on the edge in between the copyright/publishing info.

Which happens to be an anagram of "owl of minerva" - and that may point to a graphic on a still unexplained and - as far as we know - unused site of theirs, newcleardawn.com.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BL8OcdpCUAE27uO.png

Top center.

Totally a Predator ship.

I've decided to hold out until the 10th to hear this, but seriously am having difficulty waiting!

http://anagram-solver.net/I%20OVERFLOW%20MAN

Interview:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic

That interview confirms a lot of my thoughts about the record - that paranoid apocalyptic desert cult vibe. I buy the idea that Jacquard is acually a reference to degrowth theorist Albert Jacquard. The eco-dread brought to mind John Christopher's The Death of Grass as well. I'm glad I had to review this album because otherwise there's no way I would have thought so hard about what it seems to be about.

http://store.tomorrowsharvest.com/skin/frontend/gravdept/acumen/media/promo-slider-right/tour/4.jpg

Are they the absolute hypemeisters at warp, or what?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/971939_10151618331227829_278572989_n.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151618331227829&set=a.10150144932317829.298125.35225672828&type=1&ref=nf

I think I can just make out the text on the stickers: "FRAGILE - DO NOT STACK HORIZONTALLY"

hopefully they remember to add the "DO NOT THROW PACKAGE AT THE DOOR LIKE A FRISBEE" message to mine

Neil Krug, who made the teaser videos and the clip for Reach for the Dead, was at the Lake Dolores listening party too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WKI5Ak9fP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WKI5Ak9fP0

xp ha i live near a park called Dolores. spooky coincidences v much in the spirit of BoC imo

been listening to this non-stop, might be my favorite of theirs if i don't burn out on it

yeah this is dope

Mildly interesting titbit... the boxes from the pressing plant that the LPs came in were labelled 'James - Classics', for purposes of secrecy, I guess.

CD was in my local CD shop yesterday, in a special edition with post cards.

(Had pre-ordered from Warp though).