Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

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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

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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

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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*

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.

I really loved the cryptic release shenanigans at the time, found it genuinely exciting. For that reason the alum still has a slight glow of magic even if the material is a little uninvolving at times. "Telepath" reliably creeps me out, but then I love Geogaddi so it's unsurprising.

i usually have no truck with "concept albums" but this LP really works for me a single piece with a narrative arc, with an end of civilisation > desolation > rebirth theme - i find it super emotionally powerful on this basis and for this reason need to be in a very particular mood to listen to it - it's subject matter that i don't always feel like confronting

no other record has the effect that this one has on me

Nice summation of the album release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkTY1Sj0E70

Watching and loving it. Had forgotten just how torturously (in a fun way) they teased the release out over so long.

2013! I still think of this as a new album...

I also enjoyed GyuBeats recent bash at recreating 'Aquarius' (on YT), particularly hunting the most obscure samples.

still my favorite one

hah this still feels like the 'new' BOC album to me too...its older now than Geogaddi was at the time. doesn't feel like it's been as long as it was from Campfire to this. time moves funny as you get older. BOC should make an album about that

Listened to this yesterday for the first time in a while but 2/3 of it has just never stuck in my head. V fond of the third that did tho.

Still remember the thrill of seeing the weird projections at Rough Trade and people live-streaming from the Shibuya Crossing

Maybe the album that took the longest to grow on me, ever. It did, though.

I like this as just an album I put on and experience once every blue moon. That's as opposed to, say, MHTRTC which definitely has stand outs and favourite bits. It's more like a movie soundtrack, this one

It's also extremely bleak, rather than eerie or creepy like the earlier albums.

yep I don't find it anywhere near as memorable as the other three (outside of Palace Posy) but I've also listened to it far less so maybe it'll take time. fwiw every time it's on I do think "yeah it's pretty good" but the bleakness is just not something I really enjoy in music

It has aged very well and its themes are otm

TH seems like such a natural “last album” and farewell to the concept that if they were ever to come back and do new material it wouldn’t seem right.

I'll be the counterpoint... As the years pile on I love this album more and more. Easily my fave BoC.

the bleakness of this album really interacted with my slow dawning acceptance of the climate crisis (and i guess crisis of civilisation), to the extent that it is kind of embedded in the way i think about the future

like i am not really nailing the explanation here but it kind of slipped the boundaries of just being a piece of cultural entertainment into something that i found confronting and unnerving and ultimately changed me quite profoundly

for that reason and others, definitely their best

it blows my mind that they could release new music tomorrow, agree this is a fitting end tho

(still pretty impressive how they leapfrogged over the entire hauntology/vaporwave movement that had sprung up pos-CH and came out with something like TH - would never write off their ability to produce something deep and new)

honestly i don't listen to it because it puts me in such a dark headspace... it's a great record but i don't really need to be reminded how fucked things are at this point :(

This one never really hit for me. I was psyched for it before release. When it arrived, I liked it fine but found it hard to sit with. In part because of the darkness of it, but also the fact that it is a very slow and lengthy record, and my attention span has only gotten worse over years. I really ought to revisit it soon.

Opposite for me. After CH, I struggled to get excited about a new album and wasn't interested in the viral guerilla treasure hunt stuff. But I like my BoC a little dark, or at least I enjoy them when they're using a contrast of light and shade, so this was a pleasant step back into thst sort of thing while also trying out something new. No it's not as engaging as MHTHRC or Geogaddi, but it works best as ambient "mood" music

'New Seeds' is still one of my favourite tracks of theirs. It's just BOC-ish enough to not feel more like you're listening to anybody else in their sonic and thematic range (e.g. Schnauss) and the chord pattern shift towards the end is so simple yet somehow elevates it into both a shard of comforting hope towards the end of the bleakscape and so one of their most evocative tracks.

ok I'm giving it another spin, forgot how devastating "Jacquard Causeway" is. that off-center beat I think really adds to the atmosphere too, very much gives this feeling of impeding doom

It’s a fantastic, dread album - I hope they decide to make more music but if not, a compelling closer.

I'd forgotten how much of this sounds like remixes TV news themes

New Seeds is one of their most gorgeous tracks - not quite Dayvan Cowboy, but getting there.

It’s their most consistently John Carpenter-y album

mood wise