if your damn album is so good why do you need viral marketing nonsense
β 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
― kelpolaris, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
sir, step away from the bong
― we're up all night to get relegated (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
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
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
this whole campaign was pretty half baked no?
its all kinda gone to pot after the whole thing went up in smoke
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― calstars, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, album to be released in June as we knew from the start
We did?
― Position Position, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
marketing gimmick was fun. i mean, come on, fuck it. let em have a good time.
― illegalblues, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
kinda better marketing than beyonce atm amirite
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Best viral marketing since Blair Witch Project 2
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 29 April 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
lol --> http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=4516654&ev=rb
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
would be better to spend that sorta coin on drugs
― illegalblues, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Wtf! That's not even a real single.
― Moka, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
3.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
I was just wondering how much someone would be willing to pay for that but I'm pretty sure it's not $5000
― frogbs, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
wow, damn. gotta say this is probably the best album of the year.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
hard to believe they've not called a track "Gemini" until now.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
i miss when these guys used to make *true techno music*
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost - omg, you're SO interesting, please tell us more about how we're all wrong about liking this band.
― StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
I'll reserve judgement about any of this til I hear the record. Which is a boring thing to say, I know.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol al
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Can I put this record on eBay for $3,000 already?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
finally, the acoustic singer-songwriter album they'd always promised us is here!
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Excellent news!
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
the gangster yankee hotel foxtrot
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, that was in response to the thread title
whats everyones favorite track so far
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
i like the dead seeds one, it;s such a mysterious metaphor
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
is that supposed to be a nuclear blast on the cover
― frogbs, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
could be, could just be "sundown"
― the late great, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
*makes u think*
sunset on humanity
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
He's put that copy of the Record Store Day 12" up on ebay now
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Monday, 29 April 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
L@@K
― am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
getting a Chernobyl/Lem vibe from those song titlesthe cover image seems to fit well with the name of this website registered to "Hexagon Sun, Edinburgh" http://newcleardawn.com/ maybe an earlier name for the album?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
Cover looks some apocalyptic extinction event that was imagined in the 70's but is going to happen now.
― Jason Dowd, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TGlnlXHxKFI/AAAAAAAAA-w/osoyfRb-ZiU/s1600/DA-VolvoShelter.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
sincerely hope this album is composed solely of tracks that sound like "zoetrope"
― clouds, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
sincerely hope this album was recorded entirely in a white volvo station wagon
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
can we quit putzing around ffs and finally address the cover font being used here
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
it's not particularly interesting tbf
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'll buy this I guess
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
works great as vague nuclear bomb
― i wouldn't mistake myself for anyone. (wolves lacan), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
I was just wondering how much someone would be willing to pay for that but I'm pretty sure it's not $5000β frogbs, Monday, April 29, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
β frogbs, Monday, April 29, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boards-of-Canada-RSD-Promo-Record-XXXXXX-/281100905866
Time left: 6dCurrent bid: $4,150.0063 bids
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
*eats a bird*
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
but maybe some of these fools are like "if i can just score this copy on ebay for under $4500 or so, i can make a big profit by selling it on discogs. there's a copy of it going on there for $5000!!"
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
there are only six copies of this thing in existence, right? which makes it an ultra-limited edition. if you look at the art world, for example, people pay four-figure sums for limited run editions all the time. don't see how this is any different really.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
do they? I figured it would only be worth upwords of $1000 because it's just a 20 second record and it's not like having a rare BoC thing is as cool as say an ultra-rare Elvis thing. but BoC fans are quite insane and apparently have lots of spare cash.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
how come no one's paying four figures for my limited edition CDR of songs i recorded in late high school up to my junior year in college? that was my classic era shit right there
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
I meant visual arts, stuff like Banksy for example (of whom there are prints going for c. Β£6000 on ebay at the moment)
xp
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I'm not really sure what you'd compare this to...maybe that GY!BE debut tape? what if the album is awful?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naAtv1gdLTM
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA1zvjb9LBM
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
An entire Tomorrow's Harvest movie was assembled from band videos, fan-made projects, etc.https://vimeo.com/93641491
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
Hi in case anyone forgot this album is fucking poetry in sound.
Okay, have a great weekend everyone.ππ»
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
i've started to entertain the idea that this might be their best record
― ciderpress, Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
I need to give this itβs due. I love BoC and have never connected with it.
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 9 March 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
their masterpiece IMO
― umsworth (emsworth), Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:27 (five years ago) link
it's a weird album.. incomparable to TCH. Been enjoying each of them for different reasons. TCH is underrated
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 9 March 2019 06:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Saturday, 9 March 2019 06:19 (five years ago) link
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..
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 9 March 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
tomorrow's harvest is too dark for me to cope with
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 9 March 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
TH is too boring for me to cope but then again I love Campfire so
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
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.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/b73ozBQXHFo
― *there's (Noel Emits), Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
i usually have no truck with "concept albums" but this LP really works for me a single piece with a narrative arc, with an end of civilisation > desolation > rebirth theme - i find it super emotionally powerful on this basis and for this reason need to be in a very particular mood to listen to it - it's subject matter that i don't always feel like confronting
no other record has the effect that this one has on me
― umsworth (emsworth), Monday, 11 March 2019 06:58 (five years ago) link