Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

I hardly know her!

is this real

Yes it's real

Released: June 10th 2013
Preorder (double vinyl + mp3 / CD + mp3 / 3 t-shirts) https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest

nothing is real

So, no (ft. Adele) track, thank god that rumor was a joke.

i don't really care about boards of canada but i think it's funny because wasn't their whole thing "nostalgia" (like samples of kids voices etc) and now 30-somethings are excited about a new album because of nostalgia for their college years and so it's like double nostalgia or nostalgia squared

...for an age yet to come.

Oh, no. Please don't turn this thread into another Random Access Memories thread when we overanalyze if BoC is for the children.

This album is ripe for an ILM pre-covers, btw.

Split Your Infinities is perhaps the BoCesque track title of all BoC track titles.

Gemeni and White Cyclosa, too

iamokaywiththis.jpg

me too! it gives me that warm, fuzzy, almost nostalgic feeling. reminds me of some forgotten past that i never directly experienced but that i understand in a collective unconscious sorta way! also reminds me of lol college. we should talk about this!

Bleep.com has bleeping crashed, hasn't it?

Tomorrow's Harvest is the top trending topic on Twitter. Probably the first and last time that BoC will achieve that.

Does anyone with iTunes hear anything here? (also: track lengths?)

http://boardsofcanada2013.tumblr.com/post/49193502112

hasitleakedyet

No previews.

we live in sick times

cover connections?

http://nextplateau.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/belbury-poly-from-an-ancient-star.jpg

Anyone speak Russian? Is Semena Mertvykh "seeds of the dead" ?

All the hype, I knew, was just going to result in solely this, but it's a bit disappointing that it wasn't lengthened out for a good time longer... would've loved for the final mystery to be the Buy button for the mp3 album, links for vinyl and all such provided therein.

I follow Warp on FB as well and thought it a bit pre-mature/odd that the label announced the album before BoC did, even if they were working hand-in-hand to promote this. BoC carries the air of mystery, Warp is located in London and contracts hip, young artists

Quick! Someone rename 17 copies of that Rick Astley song & upload them somewhere!

would've loved for the final mystery to be the Buy button for the mp3 album, links for vinyl and all such provided therein.

imo such nerdery just cheapens the final work

if your damn album is so good why do you need viral marketing nonsense

xpost: Dead Seeds.

previews are up... glorious... breathtaing... boc are gods!...

what? were?

where?

http://bit.ly/12URC6y

You have to click all of the tiles in the right order to hear them, though.

if your damn album is so good why do you need viral marketing nonsense

― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:33 (12 minutes ago) Permalink

BoC likely makes more in t-shirt sales than they do albums. considering that the majority will download this - for free - and that they're albums are continually running out of print, BoC would be more successful in selling their aura, mystery of brand rather than actualized product. attempting this whole viral thing and having it run into conclusion would validate the concept itself as well as the idea of boc being entirely nontraditional... hence the fact that they've given like, what, 2 interviews ever?

what i'm saying is that the album would sell regardless of the way it was put forth, and it does no harm to have it sell in a way that benefits both the group and label in really being both a musical group and label that releases art for arts sake, progressive work for consideration rather than transaction

sir, step away from the bong

this whole campaign was pretty half baked no? It seemed as someone started this whole long winded thing and then just became bored early on.
Anyway, album to be released in June as we knew from the start

this whole campaign was pretty half baked no?

its all kinda gone to pot after the whole thing went up in smoke

this news is going to make me go back and listen to all the BoC stuff again and try to hear what everyone else apparently was hearing that I wasn't

Anyway, album to be released in June as we knew from the start

We did?

marketing gimmick was fun. i mean, come on, fuck it. let em have a good time.

kinda better marketing than beyonce atm amirite

Best viral marketing since Blair Witch Project 2

lol --> http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=4516654&ev=rb

would be better to spend that sorta coin on drugs

Wtf! That's not even a real single.

3.00 / 5 (2 ratings)

I was just wondering how much someone would be willing to pay for that but I'm pretty sure it's not $5000

wow, damn. gotta say this is probably the best album of the year.

hard to believe they've not called a track "Gemini" until now.

i miss when these guys used to make *true techno music*

xxpost - omg, you're SO interesting, please tell us more about how we're all wrong about liking this band.

a sports car in a tropical fishtank

I thought we were talking about them as if they were George Michael?

I've got a couple of Tomorrow's Harvest tracks on a compilation and always enjoy them but it's definitely the album I feel least compulsion to play (and there's no obvious reason for that).

The fact that we're all different people to who we were 8/11/15 years ago?

"nothing is real" might be the most boc-like boc track.

x-post. Yes, that.

Just as counterpoint, Campfire Headphase was the first BoC album I heard and is still my favorite of theres. I never had any earlier listening history with them, I guess I'm one of those "stockbrokers" that digs the sound, but it was the first forward-thinking electronics+guitar album that got my attention since those Global Communication/Chapterhouse remixes.

Still listening to Tomorrow's Harvest a lot - mostly when programming fwiw.

I've heard all four full-lengths in the order they were released. I'd say Music Has the Right and Campfire Headphase are my favorites; I'd take both over Geogaddi, which felt a little too woozy and choppy for me. In the years since Campfire came out, that's the one I've probably reached for most.

New one hasn't really clicked for me, but I honestly haven't spent much time with it. It did sound nice while I was falling asleep last night.

Re-issue lp's in the mail to me now!

Tomorrow's Harvest is my new favorite record to listen to while driving through America's southwestern deserts.

Where's the best (cheapest) place to order the reissues? Anybody doing special items (stickers, post cards etc)?

I dunno, despite not returning to it much, the new one for me thematically clicks in a similar way to Music Has the Right. Whereas the first was a reflection on childhood, psychedelia and nostalgia in the post-rave moment, they rework the dread and unsettling elements of their sound along with the retro-aesthetics seems really well in Tomorrow's Harvest with a kind of persistent dark imaginary around ecological issues, especially the return to entropic themes within cybernetics from Limits to Progress to contemporary anxieties around climate change and disastrous pursuit of surplus. I didn't really grasp that kind of unified theme in Geogaddi or Campfire Headphase.

Of course, that's a very conceptual way to approaching the records tho.

Got mine right from Bleep. I believe they came with some sort of sticker set.

http://thevinylword.info/boards-of-canada-25-off/#sthash.2kwXyEA4.dpbs

25% off at Insound, this week only (until Oct 21st) - don't know where they're based though, USA?

Wow, Insound still exists?

thanks. went ahead and ordered the LP bundle from Bleep.

Almost exactly one year later, something seems to be happening @ adult swim :

https://twitter.com/adultswim/status/459795172101210112/photo/1

( not exactly the same as this background but possibly suspicious : https://twitter.com/boctransmission )

I got into BoC big time because of Tomorrow's Harvest. I love their sounds, but I can't shake the feeling that some of the songs would be all too appropriate in films of the adult variety.

like mature relationship dramas

good i hope they make 3 records a year now

They could if they wanted to, they're sitting on enough good material

geogaddi sessions plz kthxbye

o..u have a new 'transmission' ? .. on adult swim?? wow

just put it out this shit isnt fun anymore

But it'd spoil their mystique

was not fun the 1st time either

False alarm.

https://twitter.com/adultswim/status/460499565909512192

Do you think these guys have day jobs? I'm just curious about the economics of releasing music so infrequently and not being a touring group. I guess there's a lot of licensing?

you get paid a lot for music used in mainstream TV & ads, something they've had a lot of success with. plenty of tunes were used in Top Gear for example, which is shown on repeat worldwide, and you get paid for every repeat via PRS and the like. my dad knows a guy who wrote the theme tune to a popular kids TV show that was sold worldwide, he never has to work again apparently.

how have i not posted on this thread

beautiful, beautiful album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naAtv1gdLTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA1zvjb9LBM

An entire Tomorrow's Harvest movie was assembled from band videos, fan-made projects, etc.
https://vimeo.com/93641491

Hi in case anyone forgot this album is fucking poetry in sound.

Okay, have a great weekend everyone.👍🏻

i've started to entertain the idea that this might be their best record

I need to give this it’s due. I love BoC and have never connected with it.

their masterpiece IMO

it's a weird album.. incomparable to TCH. Been enjoying each of them for different reasons. TCH is underrated

It's way better than Campfire but I still maintain that nothing touches the 90s stuff. sometimes I wonder if people even hear/get what's special about the 90s stuff anymore.

People who enjoy the older albums, like Music has the Right / Geogaddi / In a Beautiful Place / Twoism, Boc Maxima et al- do you question their experiences or appreciation of those albums?

Tomorrow's Harvest is very 'unlike' Campfire, I wouldn't say either is better than the other..

tomorrow's harvest is too dark for me to cope with

TH is too boring for me to cope but then again I love Campfire so

The only time I have listened to this all the way through in one go is when it was just released and Limmy improvised a story over it on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/b73ozBQXHFo

TH has some lovely tracks. It's a bit spotty midway through, where it feels kind of like an ambient collage, but it begins promisingly, and finishes strongly. Split Your Infinities, Nothing is Real, New Seeds, Come to Dust, and Reach for the Dead are mostly good to great tracks, and there are nice little moments throughout the entire thing. Sick Times could've been longer (?), and Cold Earth ain't bad!? it took a me while to warm up to Jacquard Causeway. On the whole, it's an 'easy' listen, and it makes for a nice ambient album. It seems to lack the presence or momentum of other Boards albums.

I really loved the cryptic release shenanigans at the time, found it genuinely exciting. For that reason the alum still has a slight glow of magic even if the material is a little uninvolving at times. "Telepath" reliably creeps me out, but then I love Geogaddi so it's unsurprising.

i usually have no truck with "concept albums" but this LP really works for me a single piece with a narrative arc, with an end of civilisation > desolation > rebirth theme - i find it super emotionally powerful on this basis and for this reason need to be in a very particular mood to listen to it - it's subject matter that i don't always feel like confronting

no other record has the effect that this one has on me