Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

http://i.imgur.com/U0AK3sX.png

TRACKLIST

1. Gemini
2. Reach For The Dead
3. White Cyclosa
4. Jacquard Causeway
5. Telepath
6. Cold Earth
7. Transmisiones Ferox
8. Sick Times
9. Collapse
10. Palace Posy
11. Split Your Infinities
12. Uritual
13. Nothing Is Real
14. Sundown
15. New Seeds
16. Come To Dust
17. Semena Mertvykh

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.

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!!"

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.

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.

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

I meant visual arts, stuff like Banksy for example (of whom there are prints going for c. £6000 on ebay at the moment)

xp

yeah I'm not really sure what you'd compare this to...maybe that GY!BE debut tape? what if the album is awful?

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

― 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.

Apparently Avalanche in Edinburgh got one of the 12''s in the post today!

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

― 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), 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.

ding ding ding. the 'R' is a little different, too, but everything else is otm.

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.

the futurist manifesto is pretty retro tbh

posts that read like a doseone line

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

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Current bid: $4,150.00
63 bids

― 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

http://www.theposypalace.co.uk/images/logo_index.png

Welcome to The Posy Palace, a truly delightful flower shop situated in the picturesque village of Walkern, near Stevenage in Hertfordshire. We specialise in creating beautiful floral displays for all occasions to suit all budgets.

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

3 minor accidents already, 1 major

make that 4 minor accidents

internet!

synthy drones and an unreadable lcd screen

come on dude, turn down your brightness

Interesting - that was it, it appears. But what was on that screen?

something grainy and nostalgic

sounded pretty good, imho

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/636340bocshybuia.jpg

http://boardsofcanada.com/ now has 403 forbidden (was an invalid redirect only minutes ago - I bet the video's going to be there soon)

wtf is heppening

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

that's only the last minute or so

here, from about 7:40

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

site's back http://www.boardsofcanada.com -> redirects to http://stash.warp.net/boc/tomorrows-harvest/ -> preorder links

this dude's uploading a 1 Gb video... http://ikimasho.net/2013/05/22/may-22nd-2400-1-23-10-jinnan-shibuya-ku-tokyo/

Kind of amazing how much more ridiculous internet hype has become since 2005, nothing like this happened when The Campfire Headphase was being released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGGo4ggIiAE

link was found on Dutch music store Plato's site : http://www.platomania.eu/album/2268862/tomorrow-s-harvest/boards-of-canada

did campfire headphase get any hype beyond 'normal excitement upon reading press release'? it had only been three years since geogaddi, it wasn't an event album like this, now it feels like they're reintroducing themselves. it has been eight years

(that video was uploaded 3 weeks ago? possibly unrelated to this whole Tokyo thing but according to the tracklist upthread Sick Times is 4:16 indeed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QH06BUk6pM

best one yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=mdZFsQTUbbY

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

Everyone's order at Bleep.com has had its status changed to Sent_to_warehouse!

Obligatory backlash - I liked them better before they were back, man. (too soon?)

Some footage from the original stream. http://nowth.is/11Yrlab

better sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Gn2CXFsoE

BBC Radio 1, Zane Lowe, tonight -> http://twitter.com/zanelowe/status/337564289126764544

new track at 7:55 UK time, 56 minutes to go

aw nice of them to save people from having to listen to zane lowe

Yeah, first time I'm hearing him and he's a lot better when he shuts up :-/

Alistair OTM

http://i43.tinypic.com/35ircwk.png

Other radio stations will be getting it too, apparently, but BBC gets to play it first.

It's going to be that Tokyo track, is what people seem to expect.

and it is

this is a bit whatevs

oop beatswitch hello

no that's it

^^ me irl

"Reach for the Dead"

https://soundcloud.com/warp-records/reach-for-the-dead

if you preordered via bleep.com, the mp3 download for this track is in your account now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjE_Ro21-d4

i would actually srsly like to know how that guy got it on youtube within four minutes

i like this but it's way different from their old stuff

seems like they've gone x-files

bit of a regression from wicker man steez but at least its not blissed out earth hippy guff i guess

― r|t|c, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:36 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

yeah that's fair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTg-q6Drt0

(linked from www.boardsofcanada.com )

it's a bit more generic idm than their old records but given how little people take the form seriously anymore it's still quite welcome to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SxSnjL3nZ0

better rip

Not gonna pre-judge the whole album from this but I'm not exactly super hopeful it's going to be more interesting than the campfire headphase was.

liking what i'm hearing.

pretty ambiv on this track just put on soundcloud, too portentious for me

Reach For The Stars! Follow your hearts desire! do do do do! (damn you, r|t|c)

Unambivalent about spelling: portentous. And while I'm at it: "pretty ambiv???"

snappy pants morelike

not getting the lukewarm reaction - this is ace. I'm guessing Gemini could be a short Ready Let's Go type interlude cuz this feels like a proper opener

Same feeling that Bjork gives me. I like it but I loved it when they were fun instead of artsy.

Sorry about that flappypants this sometimes happens when I post from my phone

you don't need to apologize for that

srsly whatev, if that kind of stuff puts a flap in your pants then idkwaoucpdaijcm

xxp This is "artsy" BOC?

i like it!

Well, not precisely artsy but they're not fun anymore. They've slowly transformed into this cryptic, somber, hauntologic act when there used to be a very playful and naive quality to their sound.

This is all scary drones and harsh beats.

Then again, I'm judging a whole album from the snippets and this song. The whole album might actually be awesome so I'll reserve my opinion.

They've slowly transformed into this cryptic, somber, hauntologic act when there used to be a very playful and naive quality to their sound.

they've always had elements of that in their sound, from day 1! i agree that they used to feature more of the playful stuff, but it hasn't been totally excised from their releases.

i like.

Damn, it's good.

yeah! i pre-ordered already (from boomkat, so i'm not getting all these cool things that bleep.com is apparently sending out) and can't wait to hear the rest.

reach for the dead has a major Tangerine Dream vibe going on

"They've slowly transformed into this cryptic, somber, hauntologic act when there used to be a very playful and naive quality to their sound."

I guess you've never heard Geogaddi!?!?

Sure, there's a dark undercurrent at work, there always was. But overall, this track is warm and beautiful in a way that few are capable of...

Quietus track-by-track http://thequietus.com/articles/12364-boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest-review
sounds from the description like the album i was hoping they'd make.

All I wrote for this one was: "Drone. Heavy. Aeroplane over my house." And I'm afraid I can't really remember what it sounded like

Worth publishing.

This is like a souped-up 'Telephasic Workshop'

quit building my hopes up again

http://equalizermag.com/news/unreleased-boards-of-canada-7-inch-discovered-beneath-feces-at-dog-park/

haha what

Someone just tipped me to that site this morning. It's pretty uniformly funny.

starts off like a late baroque pole track, mutates into watery emeralds-isms in the 2nd (inferior) half

quite like the drones at the very end

this is good

it does seem slightly generic but it's still 100x better executed than something like emeralds

https://soundcloud.com/strictly/boc-rftd-djfood-10min

http://twitter.com/WarpRecords/status/337878446539681793 ?

( ^ this is just them laughing at their fans I hope)

"i'm not getting all these cool things that bleep.com is apparently sending out"

have i missed a reason to pre-order from warp rather than just nipping to the record shop?

no, it's just an mp3 of "Reach for the Dead" afaik

User hellinterface has posted this comment on YouTube under the official video - (Hell Interface was one of their early band names, apparently?) and this is being interpreted as another official hint at something or other. Maybe another new clue to be posted at that time, maybe a video projection somewhere, maybe official downloads at bleep.com, nobody knows at the moment.

"May 27th - 17:00 PDT"

meanwhile...

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

Yermo!

http://media.warp.net/images/5-27-13-1700.jpg

I have nothing to do tomorrow and driving out to Yermo isn't a big deal for me (I know exactly where this is), but am I going to be One Of Those Idiots Who Fall for this sort of marketing?

DO IT

Weirdly enough, my blog post about the abandoned water park that's there (you can see the lake in the satellite photo) is the most popular post on my blog. Think I should do this...

I think you should :-)

It'll probably be either
- another public projection of the reach for the dead video (not very likely imo)
- a new track or video (most likely this one http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10663 )
- a listening party for the whole album (also possible, wouldn't be the first time they have one)
- meet and greet with the bros, let them sign your ass cheek etc (unlikely)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMsQo2EZNeU

That's pretty good. Seems like a lot of people got bored after about two minutes though

That was played just after a set, they didn't know what it was I guess

Right after Audion (Matthew Dear) finished his set, apparently.

Nice. I like "Reach for the Dead" ok, but that one from Detroit is excellent.

Confirmation of the location, also uploaded by the hellinterface user

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY3ByVGxmQk

This guy's tweeting updates - https://twitter.com/tonx

I love the whole " Area 51" feel of this campaign

Another friend of mine is out there -- private feed so I won't link, but I'm awaiting reports...

Jesus christ, how many fucking 'event' albums are we going to have this year!?

did Elvis make it?

According to other forums it's a listening party for the full album, and they're being asked to only record the first 3 tracks

live stream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tonx23

Happening level: it's

yep, sounded pretty good

first 3 tracks for those who missed it http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/33418663

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLTxn7uCIAAiNtm.jpg:large

http://instagram.com/p/Z1klbAkv_g/

jealous

did Elvis make it?

Yes I did!

Do you feel like One Of Those Idiots Who Fall for this sort of marketing or was it worth it?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8268/8862472121_dd606b1907_z.jpg

Do you feel like One Of Those Idiots Who Fall for this sort of marketing or was it worth it?

To some degree, but it's not like I had anything else going on today... In total there were just under 100 people there. The new album was played (great dramatic weather and wind for it), people listened and then left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUIo81A_aZs

New album sounds good. Heavy. There's never a point where it *doesn't* sound like them, but the comparisons to Alan Howarth's soundtrack work is OTM. It's long, occasionally meandering in the middle, but the slow burn droning at the end is tremendous. At one point I thought to myself, "this sounds like Bruford drumming along to Tangerine Dream's soundtrack to THIEF"

bruford from when

Speaking of cool roygbiv covers:

http://youtu.be/wYykP3NrufA

So this actually happened?

Warp guy, "I just got a text from the band and they wanted me to tell you guys that they love you."

Warp guy, "I just got a text from the band and they wanted me to tell you guys that they love you."

yeah, that was the last message read out before everyone went home.

Awesome that you made it Chris!

Wouldn't it have been great if the speakers had looked like:
http://i41.tinypic.com/vii6mc.jpg

New Wave Prog Bruford from the first U.K. album.

I wish I paid more attention to the song breaks (I was just letting it, and the desert all just wash all over me), but about 45 min in there's a fantastic bit with sounds like an idling helicopter and drones of urban dread. I kept thinking about it would be the perfect soundtrack for a Michael Mann movie.

!!!

!!!

It's so incredibly cool that ILX was there! Thank you, Mr. Telecom!

gemini sounds amazing

*preorders album*

seriously, count me in

sure it's a stunt but, you know, wow

mind you, the samples i heard of their last album left me cold and i never bothered to fuck with it

I love The Campfire Headphase a lot but it's also the first of any of their albums I heard.

Youtube user mmancha has uploaded the first 50 minutes of the album, recorded at that listening party, despite the request only to share the first three tracks. :-/

... not ... listening ... but ... it ... hurts ... the ... pain ...

:-)

It was taken down on copyright grounds, btw.

not listening - anyway shitty youtube clip is not how I wanna engage with these guys.
So this thing is gonna pretty dark and heavy, huh? not sure where I'll find time for it during the summer but if the weather stays like this who knows

don't understand people who let the rotation of the earth dictate what music they can listen to

some people let all powerful gods in the sky dictate what kinds of foods they eat on certain days, so makes sense to me!

All we need is a global nuclear disaster and then it'll be the perfect soundtrack for a Summer dusk listening session.

Youtube user mmancha has uploaded the first 50 minutes of the album, recorded at that listening party, despite the request only to share the first three tracks. :-/

― StanM, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 05:30 (9 hours ago)

fuck them

for the dishonesty & for thinking an iphone recording in open air is worth listening to

Apparently the album cover font is Quicksans Accurate Fill - http://www.fonts.com/font/image-club/quicksans/accurate-fill

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/31/boards-of-canada-to-stream-new-album-tomorrows-harvest-in-full-on-monday/

Enjoying - no, that's not the right word - Reach for the Dead. Has grown on me.

Meanwhile, I'm still pretty impressed with the video for Reach for the Dead too - the cloudy second part and the not-very-hexagonal three Suns at the end. Are they suddenly changing their symbolism?

All I can think of (maybe because I'm a Coil fan too) is that it may be a reference to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Ra2bxZsGk

Haha, on that fonts.com site: "find your type"

I've just been given a stream of the album and I would have loved the chance to experience it as Elvis did... seems almost like the ideal way to hear it. (Maybe with some giant sonic iron pyrites cubes glinting in the sunlight as well.)

This is streaming on the official website today at 10.00pm CET.

whoops sorry, this was already mentioned upthread

Had one listen to this...made zero impression

they really freaked themselves out with geogaddi didn't they? not a single sampled or backmasked vocal since, i don't think :(

2 hours to go to the stream unless they've cancelled it since they made zero impression on Mr. Yorke

What do you mean about Thom Yorke?

No, Dwight, two posts up from mine :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfcoi20CL8c

just updated: "17 previews" at http://bleep.com/release/43515-boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest but I don't have the play buttons (yet)

xpost: 1843 people are watching the countdown, with 75 minutes to go

4,000 people watching, 45 minutes to go

Man I hope there's an MC rapping over the whole thing as a surprise :-)

I love this so much. More than 4,000 people watching nothing, listening to silence. ' Silence is so accurate', John Cage once said. Ain't that the truth. And that cool countdown will, for one second, show "4,33" :-)

Have the stream open, and will just let the music flow into my room in 30 minutes. What an awesome way to premiere an album!

I have the stream open but I'm listening to New Order in the interim. Fuck a silence.

http://i42.tinypic.com/30udyzq.gif

^ how I feel right about now

nearly 10,000 people now btw

doesnt seem that high a number

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BL3EFIZCYAE4Nqd.png:large

Anybody getting anything?

4'33 is abt attunement to peripheral ambient noise emanating from the void, the best way to approximate it in this context would be to stare at the comments in real time

SOUND

yep it's working

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=channel%3A51a4a0d2-0-2ea3-9e96-bcaec54ee890&feature=iv&src_vid=2jTg-q6Drt0&v=Xfcoi20CL8c

www.boardsofcanada.com wasn't doing anything for me

:)

Waiting for Pharell and Nile Rodgers to kick in

not sure whether i should go and get the rest of the bottle of claret or not

i suppose since i know this track already it would be an opportune time

rftd is much better after that phasy drone intro prefiguring it

nope, zero impression. ZERO

i'm watching that guy-freaks-out-in-the-rain gif upthread while listening to the Coil track a little further upthread and they go together amazingly!

Watching this (on mute) is working pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78juOpTM3tE

also would appreciate someone explaining to me what is going on with that gif, btw.

Getting 'Escape From New York' style vibes

http://i.imgur.com/frnXxyM.gif

OTM

(from the on screen text all I can see it's from the América vs. Cruz Azul match (Mexico, soccer) and it was live on TV)

V. nice, this. Also it looks like this has broken Twitter a bit.

Very strong first couple of tracks.

Also yes, it seems to have broken twitter lol

liking this track, possibly because I am stuck in the 90s but never mind

or at least put it to sleep

(see what i did there)

loving this track right now (with that gif)

What have I done! Y'all are going to remember this album + that gif forever now, aren't you? :-D

Love how ~deep~ this sounds. Not going for the easier melodies.

Still waiting for Pharell tho

this is activating my imaginary northern California roads stretching to infinity like crazy. which is what I go to BoC for, so that's good.

omg - STAN! what is going on in that gif?!

It's dark, but not as dark as Geogaddi - it's melancholic, but not as melancholic as Music Has The Right To Children - it's not acoustic at all, like The Campfire Headphase never happened

that gif? I have no idea, to be honest. He's a soccer manager, I think, but he's either happy or angry at a result/goal/referee's decision?

The Campfire Headphase never happened afaic

I think it is darker than Geogaddi tbh, less melody based, more emphasis on the dark undercurrent, the mood.

had to step away for a phone call and when I came back this album basically turned into the greatest fucking thing

This is the first track kind of breaking the spell for me. Still ace though.

Otm DJP!

This track is what I imagine 90's Thomas Dolby records to sound like

That'd be awesome to listen to. '10s Dolby as well

maybe I'm prejudiced because I made that Triple Suns connection earlier, but I'm getting a Coil vibe every now and then

That transition between tracks just now -- really nice.

I LOVE how they do sad & warm at the same time. I know it's been their thing earlier on as well, but they still know how to do it.

Ha, this HAS to be the Michael Mann soundtrack number Elvis T. mentioned.

The beatless one that just finished - wow!

/me doesn't cancel his preorder (okay, I never was going to but still)

This sounds like something M83 dug up from the earth, cleaned and polished it up all shiny, and pass it on as something original from themselves.

Last track had strong Schnauss vibes, too

This last one, the one ET was talking about?

And done!

ET?

the ending is sublime

yeah the bit with the flying bikes? Goosebumps

See you all in 2020 for the next one!

probably going to play this lp 100 times so i won't venture any more for the time being

45 Mins in, I guess not.

I wish I paid more attention to the song breaks (I was just letting it, and the desert all just wash all over me), but about 45 min in there's a fantastic bit with sounds like an idling helicopter and drones of urban dread. I kept thinking about it would be the perfect soundtrack for a Michael Mann movie.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:45 AM (6 days ago)

The first half was brilliant and the second half was better.

StanM - exactly, it was strong all the way but picked up even more towards the end.

I think the ET track was before that. But it's all a hazy blur now.

How awesome, it is so silent now and the music just keeps echoing in my head.

damn forgot about this completely

You didn't miss much, it sucked.

What do we predict? 8.8 Best New Music?

I missed all but the last few seconds of this, dang it. Was it a one-time thing or will it be repeated before the album release?

One time only, yeah. But release date in Japan is June 5th and Germany & Australia June 7th. Warp may upload the mp3s to your bleep account any day now to prevent sharing if you preordered there, some people speculate. Nothing confirmed yet.

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/38376559.jpg

stop

more like boreds of can't-a-duh

http://www54.zippyshare.com/v/93407860/file.html

ienjoydownloadsplenty

In that case, you're welcome.

Regarding the soccer reaction gif: That's Miguel 'Piojo' Herrera. He's the coach of Club America, one of the most popular mexican teams, and believe it or not, he's actually celebrating.

*presses play*

p cool that universal studios put this out

ears hadn't rly been moved to perk up until 'palace posy' (can we stop acting like all these song titles arent fucking woeful btw)

It's sort of a letdown for me, sounds too much like a 90s warp throwback. Don't know what I was expecting, though. As of this moment the only tracks that have caught my attention are cold earth and palace posy.

Boards of Canada in sounding retro shock!

They've always been retro but in their own particular way. Hard to pin a specific era... they just seemed to be channeling a past from a parallel dimension and that was a big part of their appeal, the undistilled nostalgia ready to adhere to whichever memory you please. In this record, though, they're being more specific, at least to my ears. Autechre, Aphex Twin, Plaid... They seem to be clinging to warp's golden years and it ends up sounding dated and uninspired.

futurism's passé, baby

who wants to go to the future, everything will just be more shit then

Is it really wrongheaded that my only reaction to this record, apart from mild boredom, was, "well, i've got a few Emeralds albums so..."

I think the ET track was before that. But it's all a hazy blur now.

I missed the stream today, but I can ID it once I get the album.

Listened again today and I love it - it's right up there with Colorlux' Parch Marque album.

Can confirm that the 'ET Track' referred to above is "Sundown" into "New Seeds" (liked hearing the music from the Numbers Station RSD promo right at the end of that too)

Well, and "Come To Dust" too. That three song run is a movie of it's own.

listened to a rip of the livestream last night, sounds pretty good. will sound even better with a full quality rip i'm sure. 'sick times' and 'come to dust' the early standouts to me

jacquard causeway is nice

Regarding the soccer reaction gif: That's Miguel 'Piojo' Herrera. He's the coach of Club America, one of the most popular mexican teams, and believe it or not, he's actually celebrating.
― Moka,

thank you!

http://www.spin.com/articles/boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest-first-review/?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

I got to this sentence in Philip Sherburne's blurb and felt my eyes bug out so hard I thought I was having an aneurism: Another surprise is how much more rhythmically focused they've become.

I mean... what? Has he not actually listened to Music Has A Right To Children in a while?

It's out in Japan: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/tomorrows-harvest/id642650309?l=en

To celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s album Tomorrow’s Harvest in the UK and Ireland, the following independent record stores will play the album in full at 12.30 pm on release day : http://warp.net/records/boards-of-canada/album-playbacks-uk-and-roi

http://www.factmag.com/2013/06/03/boards-of-canadas-tomorrows-harvest-live-stream-the-best-comments-quips-and-reactions-so-far/

Early "reviews" of this album have made me hate the track-by-track format more than ever ("This happens, then this happens…") and this Rolling Stone one is the absolute worst.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/boards-of-canada-return-with-tomorrows-harvest-track-by-track-20130531

that link gave me a trojan

It's pretty hard to review an album you can only listen to once, which is what happened here I think (?) - the only obvious thing is to jot down notes, hence the track by track format and the lack of flow/pattern type details...

duh - nevermind ("... that stood out on repeat listens")

You can review an album after only one listen and come up with something better than that. People do it all the time with heavily protected playback-only albums.

i'm no superfan and but i live music has the right & geogaddi....but anyway it's hard for me to evaluate Board of Canada but i guess hearing this, much like my reaction to the new MBV (who i'm also a casual fan of) it's a nice reminder that this group has a really cool, distinctive sound and it was nice to hear that sound again

they could do an lp just consisting of tracks like 'semena mertvykh' and it would be one of the best lps

change is bad. This album makes me feel old because I love it because it makes me remember how much I loved BoC when I was 19

so good though

Nonsense young Padawan. This album reminds me of how much I loved BOC - apart from some of the drum programming - when I was 27.

But wait!

On the Japanese CD it says "I OVERFLOW MAN" on the edge in between the copyright/publishing info.

Which happens to be an anagram of "owl of minerva" - and that may point to a graphic on a still unexplained and - as far as we know - unused site of theirs, newcleardawn.com.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BL8OcdpCUAE27uO.png

Top center.

Totally a Predator ship.

I've decided to hold out until the 10th to hear this, but seriously am having difficulty waiting!

http://anagram-solver.net/I%20OVERFLOW%20MAN

Interview:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic

That interview confirms a lot of my thoughts about the record - that paranoid apocalyptic desert cult vibe. I buy the idea that Jacquard is acually a reference to degrowth theorist Albert Jacquard. The eco-dread brought to mind John Christopher's The Death of Grass as well. I'm glad I had to review this album because otherwise there's no way I would have thought so hard about what it seems to be about.

http://store.tomorrowsharvest.com/skin/frontend/gravdept/acumen/media/promo-slider-right/tour/4.jpg

Are they the absolute hypemeisters at warp, or what?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/971939_10151618331227829_278572989_n.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151618331227829&set=a.10150144932317829.298125.35225672828&type=1&ref=nf

I think I can just make out the text on the stickers: "FRAGILE - DO NOT STACK HORIZONTALLY"

hopefully they remember to add the "DO NOT THROW PACKAGE AT THE DOOR LIKE A FRISBEE" message to mine

Neil Krug, who made the teaser videos and the clip for Reach for the Dead, was at the Lake Dolores listening party too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WKI5Ak9fP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WKI5Ak9fP0

xp ha i live near a park called Dolores. spooky coincidences v much in the spirit of BoC imo

been listening to this non-stop, might be my favorite of theirs if i don't burn out on it

yeah this is dope

Mildly interesting titbit... the boxes from the pressing plant that the LPs came in were labelled 'James - Classics', for purposes of secrecy, I guess.

CD was in my local CD shop yesterday, in a special edition with post cards.

(Had pre-ordered from Warp though).

Where do you live?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/US_carriers_at_Alameda_1974_%28colour%29.jpg

"Thank you for pre-ordering 'Tomorrow's Harvest' by Boards Of Canada
We are pleased to inform you that the MP3 album has been delivered to your Bleep account."

And that on International Boards Of Canada day too! - we may even harvest the actual CD from our mail box tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8yp2auPzw

CDs & LPs arrived with us in the shop in Glasgow on Friday.

free WAV & FLAC for everyone who preordered the vinyl or cd:

http://www.facebook.com/BleepBot/posts/10151622404087829

bleep.com downloads are struggling at the moment though, unsurprisingly

Was away last week and arrived home Saturday morning to the CD (+ art cards) on doormat. Only had a couple of chances to listen properly; first go on the main stereo reduced 4-month old baby son to tearful sobs during "Cold Earth", so I left it until he'd gone to visit Grandma today to crank it up again. Initial thoughts: mostly very good, and in places truly magnificent. Immaculately produced, which I expected I guess, but it *sounds* better than almost anything I've heard this year - beautiful placement of sounds and some ace sub-bass dotted around. As with all their stuff I'll need a few goes to really take it in, but "New Seeds" is getting a lot of repeat plays (stupendous key change therein), "Come to Dust" too.

There were a few albums I was really looking fwd to this year: MBV, Daft Punk, Low, and Phoenix. I'm getting a distinct feeling that this is better than any of them.

I insisted on trawling the shops for it on Saturday with my two-year-old son who was (shamefully) placated with a strawberry ice cream (and didn't mind listening to it when we got in). But now I've realised that I haven't got the poster or sticker and I'm a bit annoyed. Someone tell me that they're not that good and I'll be happier.

If it were going without the Geogaddi kaleidoscope that would be one thing but a poster and a sticker ... you won't miss them.

http://bocpages.org/wiki/Promotional_Items - nah, not worth getting annoyed over

Yeah, you're right.

what is the story w the art cards? special gift for people who preordered from warp?

They are (also) available in the version you can buy from independent record shops. 'Indie exclusive art card edition' is how we were billed it.

boomkat had the special edition at the same price as the normal edition but sold out in the time it took me to read the email...

Yeah, it is the same price.

just picked up the artcard edition at my local independent for £9.99. might leave it sealed and stick to the mp3s at least until i can play it on a decent system.

(The art cards don't really add much)

I think I like this ... by which I mean I don't dislike it but haven't been sucked into Boards of Canada-world completely yet. Really like the odd track but haven't begun caring about meaning or anything (around the time of Geogaddi, I cared what all the tracks were *about*).

had an opportunity to drop by the shop earlier but the shipment hasn't shown up yet. manager was kind enough to give me a download card but i sort of want to listen to the physical thing.

i don't want to hear it through computer speakers before i hear it properly

anyone in the US received the record yet?

Off three listens, this feels closest to the Beautiful Place EP to me. Really good.

Don't give a fuck what it's 'about' but I never did with any of their records, so that's fine; their music invites extreme solipsism from the listener, as far as I'm concerned, so who gives a damn what anyone else thinks it's about or what it means. That almost seems counter-intuitive.

I guess I'm interested in what it means to them but will equally apply my own meanings or uses.

Or will, perhaps, at some point, be interested in what it means to them.

really wish sick times, instead of petering out prematurely, returned with that propulsive beat, w/added flesh and some type of melodic/harmonic resolution or change. only track that really leaves me hanging.

I think this might be my favourite BoC album (after two listens). I feel it would be good to listen to both in summer and in winter

listened to this whilst biking home at 11pm on an unusually foggy night and it was perfect

heh - that sounds a bit scary actually!

Why I'll be... someone on Twoism suddenly noticed this anagram: palace posy = apocalypse

There's a connection between the song titles, isn't there? But what is it exactly? (is it from the last track to the first?)

sadly my newish job does not allow me to indulge in Twoism code-breaking and analysis - curious to see what's gonna come out!

http://www.thefader.com/2013/06/11/by-the-numbers-boards-of-canadas-tomorrows-harvest-lp/

Unlike Sick Mouthy, I lap this stuff up. They've clearly thought hard about the record's themes so why not engage with them?

huh. today i learned what a "weird number" is!

My vinyl LP arrived from Bleep right on US release here in Denver. Very satisfied with that. Unfortunately, getting the package scared the shit out of me when I saw the huge fold in the corner - it translated into the innards, which aren't at the point of showing white creases but are albeit still is very noticeable.

Sick Times is such a simple, but so effective head rush. It is great for walking anywhere, as all BoC is.

Those creases are unique and one of a kind and could make you $$$$ in a couple of years!

i also learned about weird numbers from boc

and now i know about cyclosa spiders

these guys are the best

New interview w/ NYtimes, roughly akin to that Guardian one

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/music/tomorrows-harvest-by-boards-of-canada.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=1&

The reviews would have been very different if these interviews had been published a week or so earlier, in the same way that Burial reviews were shaped by the Hyperdub press release - all Ballard, drowned cities and deserted pirate radio stations.

Unlike Sick Mouthy, I lap this stuff up. They've clearly thought hard about the record's themes so why not engage with them?

― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 18:00 (Yesterday) Permalink

I agree. Trying to decipher BoC on a conceptual/cryptological level is a big part of the fun for me.

Obviously you can take an album any way you want to but the ideas here seem fundamental to the sound and structure, not just arbitrary window-dressing. I like the attempt to make instrumental music say something specific, even if there are enough gaps and ambiguities to allow for alternative readings.

This is why I found it so mind-boggling when people said they liked Campfire Headphase so much because this aspect of BoC was largely subtracted from that record. To me it sounded gutted, hollowed-out - still BoC on a superficial level but with the insides removed.

sort of hilarious how obvious the escape from NY ripoff is at the start of one of the newies. lovely lp though.

This album would make a great alternate soundtrack to the 1984 nuclear-horror 'Threads'.

And from reading the interviews above, this is probably something they were riffing off. Also the poem 'Scale of Intensity' by Don Paterson evokes a lot on this:

The Scale of Intensity

1) Not felt. Smoke still rises vertically. In sensitive individuals, déjà vu, mild amnesia. Sea like a mirror.

2) Detected by persons at rest or favourably placed, i.e. in upper floors, hammocks, cathedrals, etc. Leaves rustle.

3) Light sleepers wake. Glasses chink. Hairpins, paperclips display slight magnetic properties. Irritability. Vibration like passing of light trucks.

4) Small bells ring. Small increase in surface tension and viscosity of certain liquids. Domestic violence. Furniture overturned.

5) Heavy sleepers wake. Pendulum clocks stop. Public demonstrations. Large flags fly. Vibration like passing of heavy trucks.

6) Large bells ring. Bookburning. Aurora visible in daylight hours. Unprovoked assaults on strangers. Glassware broken. Loose tiles fly from roof.

7) Weak chimneys broken off at roofline. Waves on small ponds, water turbid with mud. Unprovoked assaults on neighbours. Large static charges built up on windows, mirrors, television screens.

8) Perceptible increase in weight of stationary objects: books, cups, pens heavy to lift. Fall of stucco and some masonry. Systematic rape of women and young girls. Sand craters. Cracks in wet ground.

9) Small trees uprooted. Bathwater drains in reverse vortex. Wholesale slaughter of religious and ethnic minorities. Conspicuous cracks in ground. Damage to reservoirs and underground pipelines.

10) Large trees uprooted. Measurable tide in puddles, teacups, etc. Torture and rape of small children. Irreparable damage to foundations. Rails bend. Sand shifts horizontally on beaches.

11) Standing impossible. Widespread self-mutilation. Corposant visible on pylons, lampposts, metal railings. Waves seen on ground surface. Most bridges destroyed.

12) Damage total. Movement of hour hand perceptible. Large rock masses displaced. Sea white.

'every sinister electronic lp would make a great alternate soundtrack to every sinister film'

Would have been awesome if they got John Carpenter to just talk about his rudimentary but radical synth work on top of one of the tracks.

hah

thanks for posting that poem, dog latin!

no worries. i really like it. thinking of setting it to music for a performance on saturday actually.

Bit of a there-I-said-it but this really is AOTY material and the best thing they've ever done I think.

goaty aoty

I should be clear; I've absolutely nothing against other people going down the numerological rabbit hole and decoding cyphers (or deciphering codes or whatever); I've just not really got the brain for that kind of thing; I don't do crosswords (especially cryptic) or puzzles or stuff like that at all (much to my mother's dismay), and BoC's music to me has always been very sensual / emotional (more than enough to really, really enjoy it) without needing to get into the patterns and hidden references and so on.

just ordered this: http://www.canuxploitation.com/review/deadlyharvest.html

The scariest part of the film? The soundtrack by John Mills Cockell is downright creepy, switching between eerie synth, lumbering keyboards and maudlin piano themes with alarming impropriety.

same John Mills Cockell of Syrinx and INTERSYSTEMS

bored of canada
why the hell did i buy this album? boc are on autopilot here. i can' stand the ominous, swirling sound anymore. the crescendoes make me think of godspeed, a band i'd rather never listen to again in my life. there is also something totalitarian wagner-like in their heavy music which used to attract me in the past. the melodic parts are just too beautiful, too glistening. they seem to waste their time trying to hide a deep, mysterious meaning under their more and more generic music which simply isn't there. it's just totally hollow and daft. they do not advance. they have their complex recipe which always yields the same thick soup. the first time it was very tasty but it has become lukewarm and stale by now. i can't take them anymore. the worst is the counting and number-dropping. how bloody unoriginal. it would have been ok to do it once but it seems to be an essential part of their shtick. this album is not only superfluous and repetitive like hell, it is simply awful pretentious rubbish. i still cannot forgive myself that their marketing and this thread lured me into buying the cd.

Lol, where did you find that?

on ilx

This is number 3 in the UK midweek charts (behind Black Sabbath and Beady Eye!!) which is a bit surprising considering the last album made number 41. It seems like taking a long break is a good way to get a high charting album these days. The Avalanches should be looking at a number 1 album when/if they come back.

^poll

Geeta's review: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2013/06/boards_of_canada_s_tomorrow_s_harvest_reviewed.html

geeta's such a great writer. that's a wonderful review for an audience that expands beyond the usual music-nerd crowd. so jealous of the talent of so many ilxors!

aww. thanks, guys!

Despite the myriad directions that electronic music has gone since the 1990s, and the many who have matched—or perhaps exceeded—their vision, their music still has lasting power. No one sounds exactly like they do.

who have 'exceeded' their vision?

the teleology implicit in that idea doesn't seem very plausible

someone's vision could be to eat a single cracker. but then they eat two.

they might have matched—or perhaps exceeded—the original in one aspect but they haven't exceeded its vision

zzzzz

nb that was a reply to markers

the review condenses all of the main tropes about boards of canada but it doesn't do anything more than that, which is maybe fair enough in the context of slate.com

jeezus christ "nilmar" "honorato" "da" "silva" wtf is wrong with you

lol you are such a little fuckboy

anyway, sorry to highlight geeta's awesome review and then provoke the inevitable reflexive ilx asshole response

yeah it's just people maybe exploring ideas beyond 'so jealous of the talent of so many ilxors!' reacharound dogshit

what an asshole

people people why are we fighting?

tlg have you heard this yet?

a tru wildcard

nilmar what do you think of the new no age single

i know you aren't asking me but i haven't heard it

Wtf Nilmar, calling ZS a "fuckboy"? Smdh

Interesting - or not? - that so many of these electronic cats operate under the proverbial "veil of secrecy." Autechre, BoC, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk ... And then even beyond those usual suspects, I bet it's the rare IDM-y dude or duo that gets stopped on the street. Makes the fame chasers seem all the more like doofuses.

(Though you're welcome to keep talking about stuff other than the record, sorry to interrupt)

i have, i picked it up yesterday and listened to it three times

i think it's good, solidly constructed w beautiful sound but agree w reviewers who've pointed out that it is somewhat emotionally one-note compared to best previous work and also somewhat less unique as there is a ton of brooding synth stuff out there right now

i think the most derivative pieces might also be my favorites though

it's pretty great but i don't think it assimilates all that easily into the prior narratives about them, either the transience/saudade/childhood awe that gets trotted out predominantly in relation to the first lp, or the sort of half-lit occulted defamiliarized feel of the second.....they are recognizably themselves but doing something quite new and distinctive

which is why i sympathize with reviewers because these lps are best appreciated after weeks or months, and that can't expedited just by playing it on repeat for several days

I travelled back in time and buried a copy of the LP in my backyard 10 years ago. Tomorrow I will dig it up and listen to it to see how well the years have treated it.

solidly constructed w beautiful sound = i wonder how much various slightly lesser (or lesser acclaimed) electronic ppl would be improved by the having the means to spend 7 years on one lp

although i am just assuming here that even in the age of free music, they still get enough royalties / fees from tv / ads / movies etc to live on fairly easily? which might be wrong, idk

tell you what, as beautiful as it sounds it doesn't sound like seven years of wirk

werk

uh oh i haven't heard the new no age and i wasn't aware this was a major omission -- i did quite enjoy their first lp back in the day

God that snaking synth line from 1:04 onwards in "Cold Earth" is ruling my headphones today.

Cheers for that Don Paterson poem upthread, dog latin. "Movement of hour hand perceptible." is a terrifying concept. When he is on form I find his work connects with me with an emotional directness that few others manage. I love these lines from "The Circle":

But Jamie, nothing’s what we meant.

The dream is taxed. We all resent

the quarter bled off by the dark

between the bowstring and the mark

lol at the happy clappy horror aroused by nilmar's perfectly reasonable enquiry

they are recognizably themselves but doing something quite new and distinctive

ya but as tlg says isnt the whole point of contention that it's only n&d for them in isolation. or are you arguing they take the angle further?

it's a bit more generic idm than their old records but given how little people take the form seriously anymore it's still quite welcome to me

― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:21 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

i think this heartstring-tugging post is the only bit i've read about this album that has given me pause in dismissing it

anyway, sorry to highlight geeta's awesome review and then provoke the inevitable reflexive ilx asshole response

people would "comment freely" (to say the least) on any review if it was by someone who doesn't post here, we don't have to police our own yay ilx society, it's already mostly insufferable "otm" circle jerks anyway.

^^^this guy fucking knows

yes speaking of mostly insuf... oh god i can't be bothered to tap this zing in

that's the kind of zany colloquialism I wish this site held more of :)

I thought it was a little one-trick and shallow at first. But I have listened a lot and am changing my mind quite quickly. And I remembered a time when I used to listen to all my records until they changed in this way. Fun to do it again.

i recently got into them and have everything available on cd and just ordered this one so we will see.

: |

reacharound for the dead

"We are emailing to advise that your MP3 version of 'Tomorrow's Harvest' has been upgraded to a lossless version. You can now log in and download your choice of 16-bit WAV or 16-bit FLAC from the Music section of your account."

^^ fascinating stuff

was thinking this is kind of spotty, but keep listening to 9-10 tracks of the 17, endlessly. "come to dust" recalls amber -era autechre for me. "teartear" in particular.

I'd say it's their most 'of a piece' album - I think of it as one long listen than anything to do with separate tracks.

that's fair, possibly also a nice way of saying the songs have less individual personality than they used to

it's definitely the "BoC album most likely to be forgotten about while playing" (not a value judgment, i like ambient music)

I'm listening to it now and I forgot I was listening to it. Definitely a mood piece and any descriptions of 'dark apocalyptic documentary music' are completely accurate. There are no '1969's or 'Aquarius's or 'ROYGBIV's on here - it's a sustained feeling through and through as far as I'm concerned, albeit with moments I really enjoy. Love especially the lapsed robot voice on Telepath, for example.

this has been listed as "shipping now" to me from amazon since monday wtf

Amazon

"sick times" is essentially "hi scores pt. 2"

Finally realized what "Cold Earth" reminds me of- more than classic BOC, all the little pings and boings and one-off sounds make me think of Moon Wiring Club, especially the Ghost Box 7" with the Advisory Circle.

I'm picking up a big Ghost Box vibe on some of the tracks - the third song "White Cyclosa" owes a bit of a debt to "Nuclear Substation PIF" by The Advisory Circle.

fair do's really cos it's pretty hard to imagine ghost box existing without BOC

i think it would have been impossible to do "tomorrow's harvest" as a foreboding 70s bbc-style synth soundtrack and not have drawn comparisons to ghost box, they've got that territory pretty firmly staked out

cf the cover connections i posted upthread

http://de-bug.de/musik/10677.html

Another interview, quite interesting imo

We’re not literally talking about plants when we use the term “seeds”, so you have to think sideways about the song titles.

:-(

torrenting

Why does sick times peter-the-FUCK-OUT so goddamn early. ?

You’ve just returned from the future, bringing in the harvest. You know what we don’t know: What will we be feeding on from tomorrow onwards?

Marcus: Breakfast, hopefully.

Are you following what is written online about you, especially in these fan forums? The people there are mad for you. In that regard, you’re one of the world’s biggest pop groups.

Um, no.

this has been listed as "shipping now" to me from amazon since monday wtf

Finally got this a couple days ago (though they managed to fuck up and ship "50 Greatest Hymns" with it instead of the Twinight Soul comp I ordered. fuckers). I refrained from listening to more than a few seconds of any of the leaks but album is exactly what I expected. I dig the early 80s horror vibe and it's really consistent and moody...but I miss the tunefulness and playfulness of the 1st album. None of the tracks stand out, either as significantly better than the rest or significantly different (ie in tone, texture, mood, tempo etc). It all fits together really nicely as an Album, but I'd love to hear stuff they've made lately that they didn't put on it because it wouldn't fit in here. So far, feels like Geogaddi Pt 2 except with higher lowpoints and lower highpoints.

1st listen was while driving over a mountain in the high desert, kinda cool. though feels more like a desert floor type album.

I've never exactly been a starry-eyed devotee but I liked Geogaddi and I really like this. Listened to it on a train back from Scotland and we went past a nuclear power station, really felt the eco-dread at that point.

Coming round to this now ... had to shake off a feeling of "come on, impress me" ... which was really just excitement.

http://boardsofcanada.com/vinyl-reissues/

For the first time in over five years, the Boards of Canada catalogue will be reissued on vinyl.

October 21st
'Music Has the Right to Children' 1998
'Geogaddi' 2002
'The Campfire Headphase' 2006

November 18th
'Twoism' 1995
'In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country' 2000
'Trans Canada Highway' 2006

Pre-orders of reissue products from Bleep.com will receive a 12"x12" Boards of Canada print (one per whole order) and MP3 versions for immediate download. There are also a special discounts available for customers who pre-ordered 'Tomorrow's Harvest' from Bleep.com.

Look out for a Skam reissue of the 'Hi Scores' EP later this year.

Per-ordered a couple of these today. Well done by Warp w/the discounts as well.

re: Tomorrow's Harvest. It has taken awhile but I have really come around to this. Also, I think it sounds much better on vinyl.

Last night a pirate shortwave radio station calling itself BOCHF showed up on 6,925 kHz, played all of Tomorrow's Harvest - signing off with some morse code and a SSTV image. Doesn't appear to be affiliated with the band at all (the broadcaster eventually posted on the Twoism board), but I like the continued mysteriousness.

More info and a recording here:
http://swling.com/blog/2013/08/pirate-radio-recordings-bochf-radio-boards-of-canada-hf/
http://hfunderground.com/blog/?p=105

found this almost absurdly boring, sorry

the leaked track (new seeds) gave me high hopes but turned out to be by far the best thing on the album

something 2 chill 2 dawg

gave it 3 or 4 full listens on a recent European car trip - probably the wrong context for it but I was listening closely & absorbing

I really like their first 3 albums, to clarify

if you want to say that something is overrated pretentious rubbish then the correct phraseology is 'i'm sorry but......'

if you just want to say you don't like something then never apologize

this is a very impressive album but it doesn't really embed itself in the subconscious like the first two and i seldom feel like i want to go back to it

i don't think it's pretentious. i simply found it boring. it's got a far more ambient remit than its predecessors, which i feel doesn't do their ideas as much justice

Yeah, I quite liked it, but haven't not returned to it once.

Oops, I meant haven't returned to it.

there's no need to apologize for finding something boring

although clearly if someone finds mozart boring and thinks that other people need to know how boring mozart is then certain inferences may be drawn

this isn't mozart though, more's the pity

it has taken me into the zone sometimes, and it has put me to sleep sometimes (but I don't think of that as a criticism- that kind of floaty / napping / lucid dreaming state is a positive place)

that kind of floaty / napping / lucid dreaming state is a positive place

listening to music in this state is one of my favorite activities in life

I'm loving this record myself, though I don't really have any defence for it beyond my being way more in the mood for this kind of record than I was in 2005 (or whenever the last one came out).

the last one was a completely different beast. it was practically a rock record!

That I don't remember! Do recall some critics at the time calling it their most "upbeat" record, though. Will have to give it another spin some day.

it's got some really spectacularly beautiful moments. probably more uh conventionally good-looking than the new one. fucking hate myself for saying that. perhaps more apt would be 'more melodically intricate'

the keeley hazell of the sandison oeuvre

oh and the songs tend to develop more loosely on Campfire Headphase - the new album seems to enjoy playing out fairly static themes on each song, as opposed to the builds & dynamics of its predecessor

idk i won't entirely discount anything they have done but it was trite in the extreme compared to the previous two

oh I'm not disputing that. hence 'rock record'

static themes are often weirder, harder to cling to, more oblique

think the first record found a fairly happy medium

The first album is their most explicitly hip-hop album, which is largely why it is my favorite.

There was a guy on the fan forum who said he had hung out with the brothers. Here's his proof:

http://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/boards/mu/img/0401/60/1379744385621.jpg

Shadows are consistent...

You wouldn't expect one of the Boards to wear their hat at a jaunty angle.

I listened to new one once and then never felt like putting it on again (maybe also because it didn't really scream summertime)
it might be me becoming boringly middle age but I think these days my favorite would be the reviled Campfire (+ EP). For me it really sounds like a sunny winter day - ie my favorite kind of days.

The last one (Campfire) was their most 'rock' in terms of having guitars and the way the melodies developed, but I don't think either of those things were bad moves for them to make; it's a really good record. I enjoy the new one a lot, (if enjoy is the right word) especially Palace Posy, but not much of it has stuck in my head. But neither did most of Geogaddi or MHTRTC (apart from Roygbiv). All their albums bar Campfire have needed significant time to bed-in for me, and it's still early days with this one in the scheme of things.

I hate Campfire Headphase. This one is good for sort of just walking around with headphones on. I'm sort of looking forward to the frosty autumn months to dig it out again so I can go for long walks through leafy woods.

weird - for me Campfire is the perfect thing to listen to during long walks through leafy woods.

'hate' is a very strong word. Why?

It is a strong word, but I've said why I dislike it a few times on ILM in the past. In short, it's the album that came very close to ruining BoC for me. The carefully constructed sense of intrigue they'd built up around themselves until that point was pretty much dashed against the rocks by it. It contained very little of the edginess/queasiness that I liked about the first two albums and opted for this drippy hippy building society vibe with acoustic guitars and lush spa-day production that rubbed dead-against the grain of their aesthetic. It reminds me of being on-hold to my internet service provider. It sounds like a sports car in a tropical fishtank and while one might argue that there's nothing wrong with that (I like albums like Moon Safari for pretty much the same reasons I dislike Campfire Headphase), it's not what I wanted from BoC. If anything I'd have preferred them following up Geogaddi with something even darker and more cryptic instead of that fluff.

I recognise barely any of that, and I suspect it says far more about you than it does about the record, given that every pejorative you've rolled out feels very subjective. Which is fair enough - this is music, after all - but seems a little disingenuous, somehow.

Out of interest, what release introduced you to them?

Yeah I don't know - I find the rock/guitar thing exagerated. Does "Slow that Bird Down" sound that different to previous albums?
I do get how Campfire feels somehow more sunny but to me it retains the core element of BoC's sound - that sense of pastoral wonder.

sorry xp (in my case I think it was geogaddi)

MHTRTC, back in 1998. I was onboard early!

Cool. I guess it was always the darkside/lightside contradiction in their music that I liked over pastoral pleasantness. There was an 'occult' (I guess I'm forced to call it "hauntological" now) aspect to the first two albums (and In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country) - hidden messages, clues, easter eggs - a feeling of trepidation that by listening to BoC you were somehow being given a glimpse of something you ought not be. It felt (from the album and interviews at the time) that not only were BoC abandoning this, but were also working to denounce it. It's a bit like the Residents suddenly going 'you know, all that anonymity and theatre was daft, we're just going to play Oasis covers in the pubs now'.

See I was happy to just absorb that as a sense of atmosphere on MHTRTC, rather than something deep to buy in to, and then by Geogaddi it seemed to have become far more prominent, and to my mind the tunes suffered from it. I've never liked Geogaddi all that much. So when they deliberately swerved left of that with CH I was pleased, because it had the raw tunes but still within that aesthetic. And I'm always pro demystification!

I think it's disingenuous to denounce CH too hard as "music for stockbrokers" or whatever, though; yes, it's more accessible than Geogaddi, but it's hardly like they went out and made a bland trip hop record, it's still a strange, unsettling experience.

can we stop talking about Boards of Canada like they're Merzbow

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.