Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

nb that was a reply to markers

the review condenses all of the main tropes about boards of canada but it doesn't do anything more than that, which is maybe fair enough in the context of slate.com

jeezus christ "nilmar" "honorato" "da" "silva" wtf is wrong with you

lol you are such a little fuckboy

anyway, sorry to highlight geeta's awesome review and then provoke the inevitable reflexive ilx asshole response

yeah it's just people maybe exploring ideas beyond 'so jealous of the talent of so many ilxors!' reacharound dogshit

what an asshole

people people why are we fighting?

tlg have you heard this yet?

a tru wildcard

nilmar what do you think of the new no age single

i know you aren't asking me but i haven't heard it

Wtf Nilmar, calling ZS a "fuckboy"? Smdh

Interesting - or not? - that so many of these electronic cats operate under the proverbial "veil of secrecy." Autechre, BoC, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk ... And then even beyond those usual suspects, I bet it's the rare IDM-y dude or duo that gets stopped on the street. Makes the fame chasers seem all the more like doofuses.

(Though you're welcome to keep talking about stuff other than the record, sorry to interrupt)

i have, i picked it up yesterday and listened to it three times

i think it's good, solidly constructed w beautiful sound but agree w reviewers who've pointed out that it is somewhat emotionally one-note compared to best previous work and also somewhat less unique as there is a ton of brooding synth stuff out there right now

i think the most derivative pieces might also be my favorites though

it's pretty great but i don't think it assimilates all that easily into the prior narratives about them, either the transience/saudade/childhood awe that gets trotted out predominantly in relation to the first lp, or the sort of half-lit occulted defamiliarized feel of the second.....they are recognizably themselves but doing something quite new and distinctive

which is why i sympathize with reviewers because these lps are best appreciated after weeks or months, and that can't expedited just by playing it on repeat for several days

I travelled back in time and buried a copy of the LP in my backyard 10 years ago. Tomorrow I will dig it up and listen to it to see how well the years have treated it.

solidly constructed w beautiful sound = i wonder how much various slightly lesser (or lesser acclaimed) electronic ppl would be improved by the having the means to spend 7 years on one lp

although i am just assuming here that even in the age of free music, they still get enough royalties / fees from tv / ads / movies etc to live on fairly easily? which might be wrong, idk

tell you what, as beautiful as it sounds it doesn't sound like seven years of wirk

werk

uh oh i haven't heard the new no age and i wasn't aware this was a major omission -- i did quite enjoy their first lp back in the day

God that snaking synth line from 1:04 onwards in "Cold Earth" is ruling my headphones today.

Cheers for that Don Paterson poem upthread, dog latin. "Movement of hour hand perceptible." is a terrifying concept. When he is on form I find his work connects with me with an emotional directness that few others manage. I love these lines from "The Circle":

But Jamie, nothing’s what we meant.

The dream is taxed. We all resent

the quarter bled off by the dark

between the bowstring and the mark

lol at the happy clappy horror aroused by nilmar's perfectly reasonable enquiry

they are recognizably themselves but doing something quite new and distinctive

ya but as tlg says isnt the whole point of contention that it's only n&d for them in isolation. or are you arguing they take the angle further?

it's a bit more generic idm than their old records but given how little people take the form seriously anymore it's still quite welcome to me

― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:21 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

i think this heartstring-tugging post is the only bit i've read about this album that has given me pause in dismissing it

anyway, sorry to highlight geeta's awesome review and then provoke the inevitable reflexive ilx asshole response

people would "comment freely" (to say the least) on any review if it was by someone who doesn't post here, we don't have to police our own yay ilx society, it's already mostly insufferable "otm" circle jerks anyway.

^^^this guy fucking knows

yes speaking of mostly insuf... oh god i can't be bothered to tap this zing in

that's the kind of zany colloquialism I wish this site held more of :)

I thought it was a little one-trick and shallow at first. But I have listened a lot and am changing my mind quite quickly. And I remembered a time when I used to listen to all my records until they changed in this way. Fun to do it again.

i recently got into them and have everything available on cd and just ordered this one so we will see.

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reacharound for the dead

"We are emailing to advise that your MP3 version of 'Tomorrow's Harvest' has been upgraded to a lossless version. You can now log in and download your choice of 16-bit WAV or 16-bit FLAC from the Music section of your account."

^^ fascinating stuff

was thinking this is kind of spotty, but keep listening to 9-10 tracks of the 17, endlessly. "come to dust" recalls amber -era autechre for me. "teartear" in particular.

I'd say it's their most 'of a piece' album - I think of it as one long listen than anything to do with separate tracks.

that's fair, possibly also a nice way of saying the songs have less individual personality than they used to

it's definitely the "BoC album most likely to be forgotten about while playing" (not a value judgment, i like ambient music)

I'm listening to it now and I forgot I was listening to it. Definitely a mood piece and any descriptions of 'dark apocalyptic documentary music' are completely accurate. There are no '1969's or 'Aquarius's or 'ROYGBIV's on here - it's a sustained feeling through and through as far as I'm concerned, albeit with moments I really enjoy. Love especially the lapsed robot voice on Telepath, for example.

this has been listed as "shipping now" to me from amazon since monday wtf

Amazon

"sick times" is essentially "hi scores pt. 2"

Finally realized what "Cold Earth" reminds me of- more than classic BOC, all the little pings and boings and one-off sounds make me think of Moon Wiring Club, especially the Ghost Box 7" with the Advisory Circle.

I'm picking up a big Ghost Box vibe on some of the tracks - the third song "White Cyclosa" owes a bit of a debt to "Nuclear Substation PIF" by The Advisory Circle.

fair do's really cos it's pretty hard to imagine ghost box existing without BOC

i think it would have been impossible to do "tomorrow's harvest" as a foreboding 70s bbc-style synth soundtrack and not have drawn comparisons to ghost box, they've got that territory pretty firmly staked out

cf the cover connections i posted upthread

http://de-bug.de/musik/10677.html

Another interview, quite interesting imo

We’re not literally talking about plants when we use the term “seeds”, so you have to think sideways about the song titles.

:-(

torrenting