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― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

they're happy to get mileage ripping themselves off

If by ripping themselves off you mean refining and honing their sound until it's even more fucking awesome than it already was, I hope they rip themselves off some more.

― Zazas Zazas Nasatanada Katzenellenbogen by the Sea (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

hey, i'm not complaining! i don't think you can argue that their self-awareness reading is off the chart though.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

looks like for the first time this year I'm actually gonna buy a cd of material that was recorded this century!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

you can fault other artists for sounding like boards, but you can't fault boards for being boards. boards.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Verily, it's been an age since I trod the boards. But the fun I had. The fun.

Robinson

― Robinson (Robinson), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm brutally excited for this, my fingers are going in my ears as soon as anybody tries to criticise.

― Zazas Zazas Nasatanada Katzenellenbogen by the Sea (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't wait!

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I agree with stevem though.

typeface: good
title: meh
image: they already did that. which wouldn't be as big a deal if geogaddi wasn't totally different, but to go back and retread now... meh.
music: please make just one track as awesome as "dawn chorus" thx!

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I was expecting the cover to look a lot like Push the Button!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

they should remix animal collective

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

the cover is a lot better than push the button's but I think it is bad

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I want this album to be a 35 minute long reinterpretation of "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" followed by 25 minutes of happy hardcore.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

i like it, good cover good title.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

xspost, that was a little joke about how much Geogaddi looked like Come With Us.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

eh, someone likes the album's font? it reminds me of the 'futuristic' fonts from geek-tastic shit like robotech and risk 2210.

― natedey (ndeyoung), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

why would it look like "push the button"?

xpost

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

eh, someone likes the album's font? it reminds me of the 'futuristic' fonts from geek-tastic shit like robotech and risk 2210.

Yeah, I think it's shit. It's the cover of MHTRTC plus some extra mid '90s techo-shit added on top. So, I predict the new album will sound exactly like MHTR with added digital glitchery.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link

The cover also reminds me of a collaboration between Jandek and the Orb.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Because in early 2002 both BoC and Chemical Brothers released albums with ORANGE artwork.

Therefore in 2005....Chems release a [crap] album ..would BoC follow similar artwork, as if !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i like the font. it reminds me of something from my past. a zx spectrum game, probably. very boards of canada, that: a half-misted memory of some long-lost pleasure. or was it pain?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I disagree a bit about the font. It's got a Battlestar Galactica retro 70s sci-fi-ness about it. I understand the critique but I think it's saying something slightly different.

There was a bit more to the Chemicals/BoC artwork similarities than just the orange!

I have come to really like the new Chemicals album!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno, I like the font...not a patch on the (IIRC) Bauhaus on MHTRTC, but it has a nice late-70's/early-80's look to it.

Also, it makes me think of
http://www.8bitclassics.com/images/images_big/atari-logo.jpg,
even though there's no real similarity...

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, i was thinking of Money Mark's "Push the Button" !

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Exciting. If their recent remixes (cloudDEAD, Boom Bip, Beck) are any indication, this will be awesome. Boop Bip remix was incredible.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the cover looks a lot different than the previous two. the color especially is different. it's a different mood entirely....

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.urban-astronaut.com/images/nasa-hoodsweat.gif

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Holy crap. Now that I get a look at this on a better monitor, HIS SIDEBURNS ARE EATING HIS FACE AAAAAA

Awesome color scheme, though. I like the sort-of rotten, aged, almost sepia look.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

xxpost
I don't see how anyone can deny that it really obviously references and in fact looks like a detail from the Music has the Right to Children cover!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Some people may have their monitors calibrated strangely or they are just plain colorblind.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the cover looks a lot different than the previous two. the color especially is different. it's a different mood entirely....

Seriously, how could anyone find any similarities between two green-tinged pictures of out-of-focus human figures standing in front of an indistinct nature scene?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

it's META-RETRO!!! AAIAIIEIEIEIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Definitely looks like a version of the Music has the Right... cover.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

And man oh man oh man oh man - i can't wait to hear this!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Album Tracks: according to Pitchfork

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/10.shtml

01 Into the Rainbow Vein
02 Chromakey Dreamcoat
03 Satellite Anthem Icarus
04 Peacock Tail
05 Dayvan Cowboy
06 A Moment of Clarity
07 '84 Pontiac Dream
08 Sherbert Head
09 Oscar See Through Red Eye
10 Ataronchronon
11 Hey Saturday Sun
12 Constants Are Changing
13 Slow This Bird Down
14 Tears From the Compound Eye
15 Farewell Fire

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone know where the listening party is being held? I emailed them but I didn't get a reply... :(

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

listen people, damnit, i think it looks different!! and im standing by that!

i mean, it's obviously a BOC cover, but it doesnt seem like a copy of Music has the Right. on my screen it seems a lot more blue. in any case, i just get a different feel. nothing worth arguing about of course.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

xxpost You can't get more BoC than those titles! Can't wait for this.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

11 Hey Saturday Sun

Hmmmm.

http://www.american-buddha.com/anickdrakeabol2_small.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

hey wait do we even know that's actually the cover and not just promo/poster art?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i assume the actual cover won't have the release date printed on it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

and will there be any white border, if that is indeed the cover art? i've been assuming there will be, but now i think maybe no.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

the border was really what differentiated the new cover from the music has the right one to me, very similar art but very diff't design approach.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i take it the border is to make it look like a polaroid or something? it also makes it not square so i guess thatt's the cover but the border's not part of it.

where was that thread with the fake boards of canada song titles? i can't find it but it's one of my favourite threads ever.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

it's probably not even the cover art you dicks!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i was just thinking of the fake tracklist jed. i'm not sure where it is either though. xp

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

cutty is right, of course.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, not as funny as i remember it being

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

math in teh nature videoe
colored blocks
cosine tram
paralogic dusk
birdwatching axioms
dodecathedral
measuring the adirondacks

(xpost i like mark p's a few posts below that)

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://real1.phononet.de/cover/small/524/805/r91vrdfw.j31

http://www.warprecords.com/boc/campfire.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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You gotta be in the mood, maaan.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link

I know I felt slightly underwhelmed by Kid For Today first time I heard it - it's kind of repetitive compared to stuff on MHTRTC, but it's a really nice sustained wintry vibe and, as it's BoC, there are lots of subtle little details floating in and out the mix

― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link

Is this the apex of BoC fan art? Taking a 5 note, 2 sec snippet of flash audio from their old website and making a whole tribute style track from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzdsrbRFbOg

― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link

Campfire Headphase gave us Dayvan Cowboy, which is their best album track imho. They hit higher peaks on their EPs, however.

― octobeard, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link

Yeah, Dayvan is all-time. I think BoC is overall better at individual tracks than at entire albums.

― days of being riled (zchyrs), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link

Satellite Anthem Icarus tho

― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link

ignoring the intro, that run of four tracks is their pinnacle imo

― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link

and it isn't especially close. like, chromakey dreamcoat's last minute, all of peacock tail I mean

― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link

the intro is dope! that was the first sound of BOC i ever heard- my fondness for this album probably comes down to that. i didn't have any expectations or concerns about them using acoustic guitars

― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link

there's a lot of electro-rockism in this album's lower status tbh

― imago, Friday, 14 December 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link

Obviously. Guitars! They’ve sold out to become Beth Orton’s backing band!

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link

I'm happy to be ILX's designated "I like BoC when they put the guitars in" opinionaut

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link

I tried this again last night. Still nothing. :-(
I can't hear any melodies. And it's too clean. Generic. No mystery deep time moments. I like how their stuff up to and including MHTRTC had a layer of moss on it. This is just my problem, though. I barely listened to anything these days that doesn't sound foggy and covered in moss or rust.

― brimstead, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link

Shame. What it lacks in occult dread, it makes up with pastoral epiphanies. This is the perfect music I’d listen to in a beautiful place out in the country

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 December 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link

Satellite Anthem Icarus is like a masterclass in counterpoint & arrangement

― flappy bird, Friday, 14 December 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link

Tomorrow’s Harvest OTOH I’ve never gotten close to get into

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 15 December 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link

Felt like a conscious 180 degree turn after all the criticism they got for Campfire

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link

yeah I like Tomorrow's Harvest for what it is: a sustained moodpiece or soundtrack

― frame casual (dog latin), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link

If there was a film to go with it, itd make much more sense.

I'm listening to the opening run of TCH now and yeah this is just stellar stuff

― imago, Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link

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