i miss when these guys used to make *true techno music*
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
xxpost - omg, you're SO interesting, please tell us more about how we're all wrong about liking this band.
― StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
I'll reserve judgement about any of this til I hear the record. Which is a boring thing to say, I know.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
lol al
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
Can I put this record on eBay for $3,000 already?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
finally, the acoustic singer-songwriter album they'd always promised us is here!
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Excellent news!
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
the gangster yankee hotel foxtrot
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Haha, that was in response to the thread title
whats everyones favorite track so far
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
i like the dead seeds one, it;s such a mysterious metaphor
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
is that supposed to be a nuclear blast on the cover
― frogbs, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
could be, could just be "sundown"
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
*makes u think*
sunset on humanity
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
He's put that copy of the Record Store Day 12" up on ebay now
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Monday, 29 April 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
L@@K
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
getting a Chernobyl/Lem vibe from those song titlesthe 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?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
Cover looks some apocalyptic extinction event that was imagined in the 70's but is going to happen now.
― Jason Dowd, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TGlnlXHxKFI/AAAAAAAAA-w/osoyfRb-ZiU/s1600/DA-VolvoShelter.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
sincerely hope this album is composed solely of tracks that sound like "zoetrope"
― clouds, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
sincerely hope this album was recorded entirely in a white volvo station wagon
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:09 (ten years ago) link
can we quit putzing around ffs and finally address the cover font being used here
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link
it's not particularly interesting tbf
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:24 (ten years ago) link
I'll buy this I guess
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 09:31 (ten years ago) link
works great as vague nuclear bomb
― i wouldn't mistake myself for anyone. (wolves lacan), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, April 29, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boards-of-Canada-RSD-Promo-Record-XXXXXX-/281100905866
Time left: 6dCurrent bid: $4,150.0063 bids
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
*eats a bird*
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
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!!"
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
there are only six copies of this thing in existence, right? which makes it an ultra-limited edition. if you look at the art world, for example, people pay four-figure sums for limited run editions all the time. don't see how this is any different really.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
do they? I figured it would only be worth upwords of $1000 because it's just a 20 second record and it's not like having a rare BoC thing is as cool as say an ultra-rare Elvis thing. but BoC fans are quite insane and apparently have lots of spare cash.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
how come no one's paying four figures for my limited edition CDR of songs i recorded in late high school up to my junior year in college? that was my classic era shit right there
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
I meant visual arts, stuff like Banksy for example (of whom there are prints going for c. £6000 on ebay at the moment)
xp
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah I'm not really sure what you'd compare this to...maybe that GY!BE debut tape? what if the album is awful?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
― kelpolaris, Monday, April 29, 2013 10:36 PM (Yesterday)
man i dunno. lots of common elements, but nothing i can think of puts them together this way.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Apparently Avalanche in Edinburgh got one of the 12''s in the post today!
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), martes 30 de abril de 2013 21:13 (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's Avant Garde Bold. The apostrophe doesnt fit the typeface, though. Dont know where it comes from.
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
ding ding ding. the 'R' is a little different, too, but everything else is otm.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
i think it would be awesome if this album had nothing to do with nostalgia and came with, like, a futurist manifesto in the liner notes.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
the futurist manifesto is pretty retro tbh
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 08:08 (ten years ago) link
posts that read like a doseone line
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 08:09 (ten years ago) link
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
HFS
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 08:51 (ten years ago) link
it's up to $4,600 now, with 5.5 days to go.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 08:52 (ten years ago) link
Am genuinely excited by the thought of a new Boards album but have to confess the *stuff* that has happened over the last few days has left me cold.
― djh, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Agreed, very psyched for a new record but I don't have the energy or interest for all the games and especially hate the absurd secondary market that this kind of thing knowingly generates.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I'm definitely more impressed with the Radiohead/MBV method of just saying, "welp, here it is"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
i'm more impressed by electronic musicians/producers who release new shit all the time instead of waiting 10 fkn years to drum up interest before deigning to release an album
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
otm
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
I reckon if BoC released as much as Autechre we'd all be sick of them by now
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
frogbs otm
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
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
― umsworth (emsworth), Monday, 11 March 2019 06:58 (five years ago) link