New Boards of Canada album

How it was in the old days!

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Those were the days all right.

Oh wow, this is definately 5 years ago.
I just about went nuts.

made you look, huh? anyway the interwebs are a-buzz with imminent double album rumors

yeah, i think I read/heard someone recently (Peter Serafinowicz I think?) who mentioned this. Given that the last album was about as edgy as one of the more tepid Buddha Bar compilations, my hopes aren't raised very high.

that's a bit unfair, it was a good (but not great) record IMO. Addition of guitars was a good one.

yeah - I never got the hate for Campfire - which for a drive on a sunny day is as good as it gets.

Addition of guitars was the worst route they could have gone down - made everything sound like an twee-vertisement for a Renault fun-car.

Campfire is a v.good album and naysayers are prissy.

bollocks to worrying about edginess but in the long view Campfire isn't as good as the 2 albums that precede it

but i will get as hype for the promise of new material as the frequently wrong rumours in the past will let me

Surely no one can doubt Peter Serafinowicz's seriousness?

perhaps it was announced in the context of one of his Beatles spoofs.

This was the Fact story on this:

http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/27/new-boards-of-canada-album-on-the-way/

that and the now one-year-old black box thingy

These days I actually listen to Campfire just as much, if not more, than the previous two full-lengths.

ditto. I might have overplayed Music and I'm probably too boringly middle-aged to deal with the creepy rattle on some of the Geogaddi tracks

That's why I dislike Campfire Headphase. It's like discovering your wildchild best mate has now settled down with some mousey girl in the Cotswolds and only wants to talk about soft-furnishings. Comforting to some, disturbing to me.

http://pitchfork.com/news/45754-dont-get-too-excited-about-a-new-boards-of-canada-album-just-yet-everybody/

Beautiful Place Out In The Country yall. their most perfect release.

for real.

https://twitter.com/#!/TheBlackDog/status/180228802981527553

blackdog remixes for new beats?

Beautiful Place Out In The Country yall. their most perfect release.

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i definitely dig and prefer their first two works, but it's campfire that has warranted the most repeat listens. i can't return to geogaddi and such without feeling the sound has grown kind of archaic in the fact that much of campfire's songs structures are so varied, with a continuity only suggested by the "boc sound" but otherwise not so much a concept album as the last ones (altho i've heard it revolves around a campfire acid trip, a la title, which is almost as objective than there last two but manages a much more vague understanding...actually, acid should just generally be avoided when it comes to themes)

oscar see through red eye is probably one of my most listened to tracks ever, despite geogaddi probably be my favorite. there's just too much, and i'm always kinda shocked how much the random samples come to surprise me after 3029889 listens

also "constants are changing" and headphase's other intermediaries/interludes beats the shit out of everything else they've done, sans bocuma and that one on geogaddi involving pianos/big buzzing/a city screaming(?)

everything else they've done... in regards of interludes

ok im dun

I think "In a Beautiful Place in the Country" is beautiful but I will likely always be all about Music Has a Right to Children

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/boards-of-canada-working-on-new-album#.WdE35jgKJrs.facebook

so they should have a new one out... sometime in 2013?

Damnnnnnn, apologies

The past inside the present

lol i got excited when i saw this thread updated

Dayvan Cowboy seems to be from very long ago. Like from the stone age. It has only been 4 years?

dayvan cowboy is a 2005 song

You are right. I didn't read the article carefully. Somehow I had forgotten that there was another album after...

I don't know why but I have never connected with Tomorrow's Harvest. It's perpetually one of those "I need to give this another chance" records.

Same with me. I bought it, listened to it once and since then it has been catching dust in the cd rack.

Same...TH felt dreary on first listen and oppressively dark

"Reach for the Dead" is the one track to save from that album.

tomorrow's harvest was too depressing for me to take when it came out. in retrospect it was just prophetic. nobody likes a cassandra.

Yeah I dunno if the misguided criticism they received for Campfire (for supposedly "selling out") didn't unconsciously compel them to do a 180°: switching from expansive sun-kissed psychedelia to dour minimalism. Like previous posters, I only played it a few times in full before losing interest. "Reach for the Dead" indeed the only track that had something going on.

that track stops just when it starts to get good.

Tomorrow's Harvest is a proper piece of work but different from their other stuff in that it's very moody, urban, ambient and less trippy/hip-hop influenced.
Think of it as a film soundtrack, the sound of emerging from beneath the wreckage of an A-bomb and walking around the city. If you've seen the film 'Threads', you'll get it I guess.

"nothing is real" is my favorite boc track