Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

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

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*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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― 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.