Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

the futurist manifesto is pretty retro tbh

posts that read like a doseone line

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― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HFS

it's up to $4,600 now, with 5.5 days to go.

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.

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.

I'm definitely more impressed with the Radiohead/MBV method of just saying, "welp, here it is"

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

otm

I reckon if BoC released as much as Autechre we'd all be sick of them by now

frogbs otm

Dear Boards of Canada and Autechre,

Just release an album every 3 years. It works out to recording a new song every 3 months or so, you can do it.

Your friend,

Leif.

and Stevo.

still waiting to be bored by an ae release tbh

me too - they certainly put the work in and I'm impressed with the way they continually push the envelope. but it's kinda strange to think that BoC has been around nearly as long.

longer if you include the tapes that only their close friends have supposedly heard

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, May 1, 2013 2:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people have different working methods and they don't owe anybody anything IMO

BoC and DP both emerged into general consciousness around the same time, part of the whole semi-mainstreaming of "IDM". this is around the same time the you could catch aphex twin videos on MTV. ATT it seemed like it was kind of an explosion. squarepusher fits in there too. come to think of it all of these bands had in common is their cultivation of a mystique.

i love BoC but their music has dated in a way that I don't think the best music by the other high-profile folks of that "moment" has. it's still quite beautiful, but their then-usual span of influences have become name-dropped so often (and by bands who were arguably willing to push the aesthetic further into obscurantism/difficult-listening/etc.) that their work seems almost a little... overfamiliar to me when i listen to it in 2013.

is the skyline on the cover like an actual skyline of an actual city somewhere in the actual world

that's for YOU to find out! Once you get there, carve an hexagon in the sand and all will be revealed.

xxp: nobody's saying they're *owed* anything. this hype cycle is kind of strange though. no idea how true or untrue this is but it seems that you can be one album removed from your "classic" period and still garner this sort of hype but that's it. in fact I think Louie CK said there's a similar thing for comedy specials, if you do one that's not very good people can overlook it, but after two people just forget about you. for both Daft Punk and BoC it feels like the stakes are high for this one if they want to be relevant in 2020 (or whenever the "next" one will be)

i love BoC but their music has dated in a way that I don't think the best music by the other high-profile folks of that "moment" has

i think this is true, particularly the dj shadow boom bap beats. also the textural mood that they at least partially pioneered has become like a default patch setting on music making software.

what makes boc worth listening to in 2013 (for me) beyond how engaging i still find that mood is how well the songs are arranged, that is, unlike many of their contemporaries and followers they engage with dynamics etc. eg "kid for today." of course there is a certain amount of formless dicking around too. i'm into it but i can understand how it could be found frustrating or dull.

san francisco!

I would love a whole "BoC Do The 80s" album with stuff like 'Midas touch' and 'trapped'.

is the skyline on the cover like an actual skyline of an actual city somewhere in the actual world

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:37 AM (8 hours ago)

it looks vaguely like San Francisco as seen from Treasure Island or Oakland, but it looks like parts of the skyline have been photoshopped around for symmetrical purposes?

Apparently, it's the view from the Alameda air force base where Mythhusters do their car stunts.

10. Palace Posy

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compare cover to:
http://vimeo.com/7753335

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2013/04/boards_of_canada_tomorrow_harvest_san_francisco_cover.php

Yep thats it

cover reminding me of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_(film)

(about nuclear bomb dropped on san francisco)

that movie freaked me the fuck out as a kid

i hope the album isnt like that

yeah the movie is not an upper, let's say

I would love a whole "BoC Do The 80s" album with stuff like 'Midas touch' and 'trapped'.

― brimstead, Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:09 PM (2 hours ago)

this would be awesome.

that midas touch remix is an all time classic

yes!

May 22nd 24:00 @ 1-23-10 Jinnan Shibuya-ku Tokyo

so google tells me this is the ... Hello Kitty store?

I reckon it's one of the big screens overlooking Shibuya Crossing

That's 22 hours from now?

http://pitchfork.com/news/50834-boards-of-canada-are-doing-something-in-tokyo-today/

Someone's streaming the scene at the intersection from their cell phone (?) - including sound... (11 minutes to go)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/unofficial-boards-of-canada-shibuya-live?utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=14492273&utm_medium=social

duh. stream offline with 4 minutes to go :-/

stream back up - the big screen at the intersection went all black....

http://boardsofcanada.com is down!

top flight strategic marketing there Warp

"Like the legend of the phoenix..."

(just kidding - possible noises now)

traffic lights down

ghostly synths