Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

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.

I'll reserve judgement about any of this til I hear the record. Which is a boring thing to say, I know.

lol al

Can I put this record on eBay for $3,000 already?

finally, the acoustic singer-songwriter album they'd always promised us is here!

Excellent news!

the gangster yankee hotel foxtrot

Haha, that was in response to the thread title

whats everyones favorite track so far

i like the dead seeds one, it;s such a mysterious metaphor

is that supposed to be a nuclear blast on the cover

could be, could just be "sundown"

*makes u think*

sunset on humanity

He's put that copy of the Record Store Day 12" up on ebay now

L@@K

getting a Chernobyl/Lem vibe from those song titles
the cover image seems to fit well with the name of this website registered to "Hexagon Sun, Edinburgh" http://newcleardawn.com/ maybe an earlier name for the album?

Cover looks some apocalyptic extinction event that was imagined in the 70's but is going to happen now.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TGlnlXHxKFI/AAAAAAAAA-w/osoyfRb-ZiU/s1600/DA-VolvoShelter.jpg

sincerely hope this album is composed solely of tracks that sound like "zoetrope"

sincerely hope this album was recorded entirely in a white volvo station wagon

can we quit putzing around ffs and finally address the cover font being used here

it's not particularly interesting tbf

I'll buy this I guess

works great as vague nuclear bomb

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

― frogbs, Monday, April 29, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boards-of-Canada-RSD-Promo-Record-XXXXXX-/281100905866

Time left: 6d
Current bid: $4,150.00
63 bids

*eats a bird*

but maybe some of these fools are like "if i can just score this copy on ebay for under $4500 or so, i can make a big profit by selling it on discogs. there's a copy of it going on there for $5000!!"

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