Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

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"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

Why does sick times peter-the-FUCK-OUT so goddamn early. ?

You’ve just returned from the future, bringing in the harvest. You know what we don’t know: What will we be feeding on from tomorrow onwards?

Marcus: Breakfast, hopefully.

Are you following what is written online about you, especially in these fan forums? The people there are mad for you. In that regard, you’re one of the world’s biggest pop groups.

Um, no.

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

Finally got this a couple days ago (though they managed to fuck up and ship "50 Greatest Hymns" with it instead of the Twinight Soul comp I ordered. fuckers). I refrained from listening to more than a few seconds of any of the leaks but album is exactly what I expected. I dig the early 80s horror vibe and it's really consistent and moody...but I miss the tunefulness and playfulness of the 1st album. None of the tracks stand out, either as significantly better than the rest or significantly different (ie in tone, texture, mood, tempo etc). It all fits together really nicely as an Album, but I'd love to hear stuff they've made lately that they didn't put on it because it wouldn't fit in here. So far, feels like Geogaddi Pt 2 except with higher lowpoints and lower highpoints.

1st listen was while driving over a mountain in the high desert, kinda cool. though feels more like a desert floor type album.

I've never exactly been a starry-eyed devotee but I liked Geogaddi and I really like this. Listened to it on a train back from Scotland and we went past a nuclear power station, really felt the eco-dread at that point.

Coming round to this now ... had to shake off a feeling of "come on, impress me" ... which was really just excitement.

http://boardsofcanada.com/vinyl-reissues/

For the first time in over five years, the Boards of Canada catalogue will be reissued on vinyl.

October 21st
'Music Has the Right to Children' 1998
'Geogaddi' 2002
'The Campfire Headphase' 2006

November 18th
'Twoism' 1995
'In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country' 2000
'Trans Canada Highway' 2006

Pre-orders of reissue products from Bleep.com will receive a 12"x12" Boards of Canada print (one per whole order) and MP3 versions for immediate download. There are also a special discounts available for customers who pre-ordered 'Tomorrow's Harvest' from Bleep.com.

Look out for a Skam reissue of the 'Hi Scores' EP later this year.

Per-ordered a couple of these today. Well done by Warp w/the discounts as well.

re: Tomorrow's Harvest. It has taken awhile but I have really come around to this. Also, I think it sounds much better on vinyl.

Last night a pirate shortwave radio station calling itself BOCHF showed up on 6,925 kHz, played all of Tomorrow's Harvest - signing off with some morse code and a SSTV image. Doesn't appear to be affiliated with the band at all (the broadcaster eventually posted on the Twoism board), but I like the continued mysteriousness.

More info and a recording here:
http://swling.com/blog/2013/08/pirate-radio-recordings-bochf-radio-boards-of-canada-hf/
http://hfunderground.com/blog/?p=105

found this almost absurdly boring, sorry

the leaked track (new seeds) gave me high hopes but turned out to be by far the best thing on the album

something 2 chill 2 dawg

gave it 3 or 4 full listens on a recent European car trip - probably the wrong context for it but I was listening closely & absorbing

I really like their first 3 albums, to clarify

if you want to say that something is overrated pretentious rubbish then the correct phraseology is 'i'm sorry but......'

if you just want to say you don't like something then never apologize

this is a very impressive album but it doesn't really embed itself in the subconscious like the first two and i seldom feel like i want to go back to it

i don't think it's pretentious. i simply found it boring. it's got a far more ambient remit than its predecessors, which i feel doesn't do their ideas as much justice

Yeah, I quite liked it, but haven't not returned to it once.

Oops, I meant haven't returned to it.

there's no need to apologize for finding something boring

although clearly if someone finds mozart boring and thinks that other people need to know how boring mozart is then certain inferences may be drawn

this isn't mozart though, more's the pity

it has taken me into the zone sometimes, and it has put me to sleep sometimes (but I don't think of that as a criticism- that kind of floaty / napping / lucid dreaming state is a positive place)

that kind of floaty / napping / lucid dreaming state is a positive place

listening to music in this state is one of my favorite activities in life

I'm loving this record myself, though I don't really have any defence for it beyond my being way more in the mood for this kind of record than I was in 2005 (or whenever the last one came out).

the last one was a completely different beast. it was practically a rock record!

That I don't remember! Do recall some critics at the time calling it their most "upbeat" record, though. Will have to give it another spin some day.

it's got some really spectacularly beautiful moments. probably more uh conventionally good-looking than the new one. fucking hate myself for saying that. perhaps more apt would be 'more melodically intricate'

the keeley hazell of the sandison oeuvre

oh and the songs tend to develop more loosely on Campfire Headphase - the new album seems to enjoy playing out fairly static themes on each song, as opposed to the builds & dynamics of its predecessor

idk i won't entirely discount anything they have done but it was trite in the extreme compared to the previous two

oh I'm not disputing that. hence 'rock record'

static themes are often weirder, harder to cling to, more oblique

think the first record found a fairly happy medium

The first album is their most explicitly hip-hop album, which is largely why it is my favorite.

There was a guy on the fan forum who said he had hung out with the brothers. Here's his proof:

http://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/boards/mu/img/0401/60/1379744385621.jpg

Shadows are consistent...

You wouldn't expect one of the Boards to wear their hat at a jaunty angle.

I listened to new one once and then never felt like putting it on again (maybe also because it didn't really scream summertime)
it might be me becoming boringly middle age but I think these days my favorite would be the reviled Campfire (+ EP). For me it really sounds like a sunny winter day - ie my favorite kind of days.

The last one (Campfire) was their most 'rock' in terms of having guitars and the way the melodies developed, but I don't think either of those things were bad moves for them to make; it's a really good record. I enjoy the new one a lot, (if enjoy is the right word) especially Palace Posy, but not much of it has stuck in my head. But neither did most of Geogaddi or MHTRTC (apart from Roygbiv). All their albums bar Campfire have needed significant time to bed-in for me, and it's still early days with this one in the scheme of things.

I hate Campfire Headphase. This one is good for sort of just walking around with headphones on. I'm sort of looking forward to the frosty autumn months to dig it out again so I can go for long walks through leafy woods.