Likewise. I drove from Phoenix to Tucson at night with this album up as high as it could go. First time listening to the whole album. Just one of those experiences I'll never forget.
No kidding... It has now been longer between TH and today than it was between TH and their previous album (The Campfire Headphase). Will there be another?
Wait. Y mean this came out round 2013?? I thought it was round 2002 or smthn! I swear i had heard "cold earth" on the radio back then! (BBC radio1, the show was called "the breezeblock"...pretty cool show btw)
Come to Dust is insane. I find that the emotional/aesthetic impact of many BoC works are highly situation-dependent. Hits totally different depending on life circumstances at a particular moment. The first few listens are often meh. Then there's that magical moment where the layers of the song finally hit with full force. The name is perfect, too, and reintroduced me to poetry. Helps me to come to terms with the impermanence of everything, as an almost meditative exercise. The constant struggle to maintain, let alone improve, is a losing battle in the end. The hope and potential of youth fades, teeth fall out, mental faculties decline, the body weakens, people leave. It helps me to come to terms with the things I have little or no control over. Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o’ the great; Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The scepter, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone; Fear not slander, censure rash; Thou hast finished joy and moan: All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. No exorciser harm thee! Nor no witchcraft charm thee! Ghost unlaid forbear thee! Nothing ill come near thee! Quiet consummation have; And renownèd be thy grave!
I remember when this album was released in 2013. My first thoughts were this album is a warning from the future. I still believe this more now than ever. Sadly, I doubt BOC will ever release anything again. Just a hunch.
They'll be back, I think. They were asked in an interview a few years ago about their output, how they operate between albums etc., and one of them said "we're always creating music". It's just they've created such an aura around themselves, every release is a big thing now. It's hard for them to shut-off the noise of critics and things. If they stray too far, BoC fans would be upset and if they retrace old ground (absolutely fine with me) then you get the irritating, soulless music journalists bleating on about it with their pretentious views). It's time though, for sure. 2013...wow.
@@alroulexe4996 well said. and still we wait. I nearly had a heart attack when their Twitter feed came to life this week, but it was just someone from Warp Records posting about an LP re-release for MHTRTC in stock somewhere.
If you treat this album as a timeline starting in 2013, Transmissiones Ferox lines up with 2019. "19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-...". Next up is 2020 as "Sick Times", 2021 as "Collapse", and 2022 as "Palace Posy"...anagram for apocalypse, but also posies are a flower used to help hide the stench of mass death. I'm not sure I want to Split My Infinities.
Have you heard of the metal band Agalloch? While a totally different genre, they're weirdly compatible with BOC for me and give me that same feeling of tragedy and hope, loss and nostaliga. Check out Falling Snow, Not Unlike the Waves, and Limbs if you ever get the chance, they're something special.
I fucking love Gemini. I can't describe it. They just capture the essence of the whole album in that one track. A kind of foreboding, but not in a way where you're helpless or defeated, but more like you're joining into the feeling, making it your own and embracing it, and going forward to meet what is to come...
BoC are subtle, knowing full well their synth is nostalgia inspiring, by calling out the future, they're placing the listeners in the zeitgeist of a would-be previous generation looking at the future, i.e our present. But this future they had in mind, full of promise, is so much more hopeful, brighter, almost innocent if not to say naive. So BoC sound is that yearning for the loss of innocence. Progress is cool, but it ain't what it was promised to be. So that typical old school robotic synth is that reminder of what yesterday sounded futuristic, which to the modern ears already sound stereotypically naive, but the BoC takes that sound to another level, adding an atmosphere devoid of anything else, not beat to break that "promise," it's as if that promise still stood, in an alternative universe, untouched, still looking to the future that would have been our present. BoC is fundamentally postmodern and psychedelic, postmodern for it actively creates a future based on a naive past and long gone conception of the future/progress. Psychedelic for the lack of "groundedness", the atmospheric creation of the sound, like a cloud passing in the sky, barely a shape, barely formed, barely a thing, and yet forever promising to take shape. The hope in this positive future is kept. The innocence of the past injected in our veins like that missing substance to our present, a present where the future has already materialized but in a disappointing form, not the shape that was promised to us. This groundedness in the present is really a loss of trajectory. I guess the message of BoC is that any purpose is better than none, even a false hope is better than a world of facts devoid of trajectory if not to say faith, faith in something, anything, faith in progress and the future, faith in something, faith for its own sake, believing for the sake of believing in something, not the object of belief is the stuff we yearn for. We at best momentarily reach that stage through drugs, but when the trip is over, even the faithful no longer believe the way they used to believe. But then the faithful of the past had a certainty that might not have been all that based in beatitude nor all that comforting. Could it just be a projection of the present onto the past of what they imagined the future would be? In the end, it seems BoC musical landscape is always self-referencing rather than self-centered, pointing away to a place it pretends existed, but actually pointing to a place every song is painstakingly recreating, with every note, with every synth, until it is faithfully (pun intended) restored, and made past. But that imaginary past feels so good, in the end, we enjoy its fiction and wish it to be real. And we're back to nostalgia, but for a place that never was, and in that sense BoC is more postmodern than psychedelic.
Impressive analysis, I see all of that and can not refute it. I think you hit the nail on the head with this. It is definitely both postmodern and psychedelic, and in the ways you explicate more of the former than the latter. You have such clear insights about such foggy material, I love it. Very well said!
Hard not to be down listening to this in 2020. I remember first hearing it in 2013 and it haunted me for many years because I couldn't fathom how our peaceful, strange, nostalgic Boards of Canada had taken such a dark path. What did they see that we didn't? Well... here we are.
Wow I feel the exact same way. But in hindsight we could all see this coming, many things have hinted us for many decades, but we (our leaders) were to arrogant to face the facts I guess.
For me geogaddi was the culmination of so much - their ultimate masterpiece. It was the apocalypse album. And tomorrow's harvest is the post apocalypse album IMO
I was one of the skeptics when i first listened to this album, it left a very unsettling vibe with me. After re-visiting this album 3 years later i can honestly say i am appreciating it a lot more. With that said i still hope that this is not their last album.
Also the case for me, always had a relatively low opinion of this album in comparison to their others, but it clicked recently. I think it's an album that NEEDS to be viewed as a whole. Less standout moments, but a brilliant musical journey from start to finish, everything feels complete.
mr luucky Same here. Definitely off-putting, unsettling vibes. It was like being in denial, I felt "yeah this is okay, but it's boring, meandering, without soul"... Separating it from their previous work, I felt it was less meaningful and more just depressing. I think that being more ambient than their previous LPs also contributed to the "empty" impression I initially got from it. But mostly I think I was afraid and in denial about a number of things which this album brought to light, and I couldn't handle the gravity, the depth, and the cold, hard truths to be found in it and in what it reflected. Coming back to it, I do appreciate it more, and do feel that it has it's place in their canon. There is plenty of meaning in this record, but it is distinct from their other albums. They are all unique albums of course, but something still separates this one from the other 3 for me, namely that it's colder, darker, lonelier than the others, that it's more "pregnant with emptiness" than before. The fact that it had any effect at all, even if that effect was aversion, means that it's a work of art; it moved me. I think they accomplished what they set out to accomplish. After all, they weren't exactly intending to make cheerful, rose-colored music here, as netjunkie9 pointed out.
Keep coming back in the wake of all the pandemic news this week. I've found I really am drawn to their music when things get uncertain or tense. Somehow they help channel and refine my thinking in times of great stress, and help put it to music. Pretty much all of their music feels nostalgic but this album in particular has a really eerie quality of existing in the present and in the near future. It feels more grounded and concrete while maintaining and modernizing that haziness and dreaminess their music became famous for. I wasn't sure about this album when it first came out because it sounded cleaner and more modern to me or something. I couldn't exactly put my finger on it but I now believe it was a conscious decision because this album isn't like the other ones - it music for the here and now. This album to me is about the turbulence we're increasingly spiraling towards every day. Climate change and all of its associated fallout looms especially large when I listen here but like the tracklist, it's specter isn't always crystal-clear and the threats seem to be on many fronts at once; illness, decay, shortage, conflict, and a planet that is heading towards lots of problems. I feel like the bros have made their most direct message with this album and it certainly paints a picture. They claim to be nihilistic in their interviews but to me this album is their way of reminding people that dark times are ahead and in the process almost making a call to action. It's an hour of tense dark music that leaves you feeling heavy but it no longer seems like a nightmare from yesteryear but something real. something that people need to acknowledge and start moving towards helping and compassion. My 2 cents. BoC forever
Yessss. Their music has always kind of felt nostalgic and futuristic simultaneously to me, though. Taking the bus to college many years ago in my childhood neighborhood, their music made me feel like I was visiting my neighborhood after being away for many years. It was a strange feeling.
Boards of Canada's music will still sound fresh 50 years from now. That's how good their execution is, even if the sounds they tend to use are reminiscent of decades past, their isolated and vivid sense for melody keep them ahead of their time.
Track 1 is so conceptually different to every other thing they've touched. It honestly begins like a triumphant tune, you can tell that at the end of the day the BoC boys are just massive synth-heads.
This one's about old Carpenter movies which all had these weird soundtracks. In fact, Carpenter's made a nice live show out of those soundtracks, I believe.
For anyone desperately in search for more Boards, listen to the first section of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's obscure b-side SB - 02. Was blown away by it and certainly didn't expect it from an indie band.
I once talked to Ruban after a show and he commented on my BoC t-shirt and cited them as an inspiration for his recording techniques. It was a cool moment of validation
Listening to boc while looking at the album artwork causes a disturbance in my energies that is both frightening and exhilarating at the same time. I've yet to find anyone who is not moved in some way either positive or negative by this music. Pure emotion.
Arguably the one BoC album that has a blunt, clear message. Like all high forms of art, essentially preaching to the choir. Those who need to hear it most, are not in a position to even want to hear it.
Wow! It sounds like their tribute to John Carpenter. Absolutely flawless. The reprise of the beginning of reach for the dead at the songs end really got to me a bit.
As amazing as this album is, I personally think the first 5 seconds are absolutely incredible. It sounds like a countryside news anchor starting broadcast
The album cover picture was taken in Howat St, Govan, Glasgow in the 1980, I was 4 years old and blowing bazooka Joe bubble gum was the reward for collecting and scavenging glass ginger bottles around the streets and bins for the ½ pence deposit, as children we didn't know how poor we where, innocence, laughter and imagination was our shield.
at some random library studying, but had to log in to appreciate how beautiful Boards of Canada is. they created an atmosphere that i love to be in, possibly forever
Listened to this the first time and as soon as the last track faded out, a storm began. It's raining heavily and you can hear thunder roaring across the skies. Perfect.
it is the moment of detonation. farther up, someone shared the image of the cover's other meaning/version; the tru col version here looks pretty uncanny/filtered for something so simple and natural as a sunrise to photograph, but that's because flipped and color-inverted it's the rubble AFTER the explosion. very clever how they made it work, as a photomanipulation you'd think "crap fake sunrise" instantly but there's a reason/message to why. puu.sh/ygrLa/0d916e2782.png
@@sparkpenguin Wow. Some parts of this album are more creepy that Geogaddi (for me). Maybe because the creepyness is less explicit here, masked behind shades of tranquility, and then so subde and so terrifying one time that you discover the true message/vibe of the album.
The soundtrack to where we are heading as humanity. This should send shiver down the spine of everyone. BoC really nailed the omnious feeling of impeding doom.
kulturvultur I think humanity has a bright future. Humanity has never been this prosperous, peaceful, or harmonious. if you think it's bad now, then you don't know much about how we were in the past. spaceward ho! brothers and sisters!
I remember finding the cold, merciless desolation of the album (the message, I guess) pretty affecting. It really brought to mind the idea that humans are causing their own slow, painful destruction through our own short-sightedness and vanity, judged by fate/circumstance/the cosmos/the gods/etc unworthy to go on. I'm in my mid-twenties, and the thought of that stuff happening in my lifetime fills me with dread and a perverse, morbid excitement - the spirit of Tomorrow's Harvest, I reckon.
It took me a minute, when this album came out, to latch onto it. It's cold. Dark. Times were different then and this album felt a little off to me. Now. It makes perfect sense. Listening to this album is like coming home.
Finally in the right headspace to dive into this album. It’s been a long time since the music has the right to children/geogaddi days. Hard to believe my buddy told me about this album dropping 6 years ago. Where did time go. Thanks for the upload
This (like their entire discography) has aged well. No album better depicts the current state that the world is in than this. It’s almost like they can predict the future through their tunes. Legendary duo!
I can't recommend you enough listening to this album when you are traveling across the mountains, watching the snowy peaks and all around trees, going trough the highway. It's an out of body experience.
My two favourite bands are Boards of Canada and Depeche Mode (so loving the SoFaD profile pic). Coming in at third place is Judas Priest who are not like the others haha
@@LaMereACaniche Some of these posts are truly deep and insightful though. See Gareth Mensah's post below, his is truly one of the best analyses of this album and BoC I've ever read.
This makes me scared, worried, and lonely. It’s beautiful. Never have I known a piece of music to make me feel so much. The music is so good at conveying it’s message, or at least the message I got from it.
This album is amazing - so good. It’s perfect to listen to walking into or around a city at night, the beats and synths match the lights and energy of a city - you retreat into your own world! For me - it’s Toronto. Anyway - can’t get enough of this band and Scottish music in general. I’d love to see them live.
Incredible album, the monumental excitement I felt when they announced it back in 2013 was indescribable, and they managed to deliver something that lived up to the hype. A haunting body of work that never ceases to evoke, BoC proves itself to be one of my all time favourites.
It's hard listening to this album and not becoming saddened by it's bleakness. The first time I opened the vinyl sleeve and saw all the deserted landscapes and abandoned settings I knew it was going to be a dark journey. 10/10
Happy BoC day 2021! Went through Twoism, Boc Maxima, Hi Scores, MHTRTC, IABPOITC, Geogaddi, Campfire Headphase, Trans Canada Highway, and now I’m here. Next stop AFOT, R35TT etc. Cheers!
So thankful for music like this, such a gift. BOC captures an essence of life that we so easily forget in our daily pursuits; a return to the magic of life and the discovery it holds.
This is it! They've done it. Previous albums were building to this. Reach for the dead, the most epic of all their work. This is Boc's Eno 'An Ending'. I could understand if they never made another record.
i think this is one of the most significant electronic music album of all times with klaus schuze "mirage".It shows the ability of music,in its transcendental aspect,to fix the memory of places in our minds;
Fantano was so wrong about this album. I see quite a few covid posts here. It means something when people listen to music like this during difficult times. This album is special and I'd say probably my top 3 favorite of BOC
Omar what you forget on mary jane, queen collects. Her son will not be defeated. Rick and morty creationists this ambient music is. Extrawelt is better.
Whan a year for the music ! Daft punk releasing RAM and BoC coming back with this masterpiece! I know there's no comparison between them so let's enjoy both albums! Peace n love !
I've been listening to and buying music for 30 years now. I'm into roughly 3 or 4 genres. If I could only listen to and keep the catalog of 1 artist it would be BoC. ✨☀️🎈
49:00 NEW SEEDS | This song title was alluded to during the Record Store Day incident when a clue uploaded to the official hellinterface TH-cam account was titled "nuevas semillas," which is "new seeds" in Spanish. 52:50 - "I like you", Repeated until the end in the back layers. Highly combined with the melody and difficult to catch. The end of this song contains the "Cosecha" jingle, as heard on the original 6 records, as well as the other number transmissions. The song has a motif that also occurs in Audiotrack 14 of Random_35_Tracks_Tape. The sound heard at the beginning of the track is similar to the sound you hear when cell signal is lost.
BOC and many other similar bands helped me through depression over a decade ago and now this music makes me think about existence and how damn profound everything is. There is a legitimate excitement within me, to be alive. It's crazy.
The Electronic Voice in track 5 sounds like the voice of Konstantin Raudive who did EVP research or communication with spirits through electronic means. After he passed in 1974, sessions were then conducted by a former associate who made recordings of communication with Raudive using electronic devices. This is what the recording of his voice sounded like.
The first time I heard Boards from Canada a few years ago, I felt like I had heard the best songs of my life, but I thought, "I can only be crazy", today I appreciate it as if I had had a wine. It's splendid, it's a mixture of sensations. A primeira vez que ouvi Boards do Canada há alguns anos, senti como se tivesse ouvido as melhores músicas da minha vida, mas eu pensei, "Eu só posso ser louco", hoje eu aprecio como se eu tivesse bebido um vinho. É esplêndido, é uma mistura de sensações.
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Boards of Canada helps me remind myself that no moment is uninteresting or meaningless.
Alejandro Mendoza unless you were abducted by troller.
excluding waiting in line at the DMV
Tomorrow's Nostalgia
very interesting statement Salamander
Actually their sound confirms that life is pointless. And you mean it's a life-asserting music..
Played this album during a Road trip through the Mojave desert to Vegas. That was intense.
Likewise. I drove from Phoenix to Tucson at night with this album up as high as it could go. First time listening to the whole album. Just one of those experiences I'll never forget.
FikeCorp Hope you caught the night time silhouette of Picacho Peak
Imagining that gave me full-body chills. Thanks.
very good choice !
Please tell me you were on a head full of acid as well. Jk but just imagine
Music Has the Right to Children = spring
Geogaddi = fall
The Campfire Headphase = summer
Tomorrow's Harvest = winter
Nice! Must listen to them in their seasonal order to see if your hypothesis fits.
@@sawtoothiandi listen to them inside an Egyptian vagine
@@pornsakpongthong1092 that i shall
@@sawtoothiandi and a good weekend will make the day to be
Real shit you nailed it on the head
8 years, hasn't this aged well, sounds better today than the day it was released.
Yes. Absolutely.
agree.
I can't even believe so much years has been passed, we were anxious just to know it would be released and it took forever...
8 years!? This album is still a wee baby. Talk to Brian Eno ;)
I remember waiting for the online release party in my room, what a time that was!
Wow... 10 years old. I remember people excitedly waiting for the launch stream back then. Time passes so quickly!
No kidding... It has now been longer between TH and today than it was between TH and their previous album (The Campfire Headphase). Will there be another?
That stream holds a special place in my heart
yeah man.. I just thought about how it feels like yesterday when this album came out
@@jeremiahgoertz4182 their next album best bring world peace, or there will be questions about wtf they've been up to for so long.
Wait. Y mean this came out round 2013?? I thought it was round 2002 or smthn! I swear i had heard "cold earth" on the radio back then! (BBC radio1, the show was called "the breezeblock"...pretty cool show btw)
Come to Dust is insane. I find that the emotional/aesthetic impact of many BoC works are highly situation-dependent. Hits totally different depending on life circumstances at a particular moment. The first few listens are often meh. Then there's that magical moment where the layers of the song finally hit with full force.
The name is perfect, too, and reintroduced me to poetry. Helps me to come to terms with the impermanence of everything, as an almost meditative exercise. The constant struggle to maintain, let alone improve, is a losing battle in the end. The hope and potential of youth fades, teeth fall out, mental faculties decline, the body weakens, people leave. It helps me to come to terms with the things I have little or no control over.
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Fear no more the frown o’ the great;
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The scepter, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.
Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renownèd be thy grave!
This album perfectly encapsulates the feeling of everything that is unfolding right now. Perfect music for these very strange times.
was thinking the same thing. This and Oneohtrix Point Never are my emo soundtrack. And Kenny G when I need to feel better.
Definitely the soundtrack to my covid lockdown
perfect music for eternity.
Def feels like waking up to a zombie apocalypse music to me. I can hear the helicopters and news announcements.
they got the riots too 0_0
My favourite pandemic album. The album feels like a seven year old warning for the future.
It's actually a menu of cheese that fell on the floor
@@pornsakpongthong1092 Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
Remember, the pandemic is just a single track on this album.
What song is playing now?
(Collapse)
@@excrono Definitely "Nothing is real" for me
Cringe.
I can't believe people were this fearful of this virus.
I swear I'm feeling memories from other people's lives listening to this.
I remember when this album was released in 2013. My first thoughts were this album is a warning from the future. I still believe this more now than ever. Sadly, I doubt BOC will ever release anything again. Just a hunch.
Indeed, Cool Hand Luke Skywalker.
They'll be back, I think. They were asked in an interview a few years ago about their output, how they operate between albums etc., and one of them said "we're always creating music". It's just they've created such an aura around themselves, every release is a big thing now. It's hard for them to shut-off the noise of critics and things. If they stray too far, BoC fans would be upset and if they retrace old ground (absolutely fine with me) then you get the irritating, soulless music journalists bleating on about it with their pretentious views). It's time though, for sure. 2013...wow.
Why are you saying that ... downer. 😂
@@alroulexe4996 well said. and still we wait. I nearly had a heart attack when their Twitter feed came to life this week, but it was just someone from Warp Records posting about an LP re-release for MHTRTC in stock somewhere.
they will release of course, I would say before 2030, maybe 2022
this album is super underrated, after almost 10 years of listening to BoC this has grown to be my favorite
Underrated hardly
Out of all of BoC's albums, this is the one that paints the clearest image in my mind's eye. Desolate. Dust. Dread. Hopelessness.
McDonald's
This one paints Desolate, Dust, Dread, Nostalgia, Hopefulness, for me.
@@pornsakpongthong1092 09 McDonalds
Yes! Like Godspeed you black emperor
yeah this one kinda scares the shit outta me
10 years and this album has already aged well
It did yes. 34:43.
actually, it did not age, you are mistaken. It was release, like, a few monts ago ? 😛
If you treat this album as a timeline starting in 2013, Transmissiones Ferox lines up with 2019. "19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-...". Next up is 2020 as "Sick Times", 2021 as "Collapse", and 2022 as "Palace Posy"...anagram for apocalypse, but also posies are a flower used to help hide the stench of mass death. I'm not sure I want to Split My Infinities.
Lmao take your meds.
So Scottish electronic music duos can predict the future now? I mean the 2022 one is kind of weird/scary lol
the traacklist is not in the right order, it works as a palindrom according to one of BoC
@@F34OIFJ34OIFJ Collapse is the summit, and the tracks before and after it are the slopes.
@@michaelh.1262 I mean...it's allegory. Don't think it was literal.
been a fan since i was a child. i thank my dad for introducing me to such an amazing group. Music has the right to children is my ultimate favorite.
Mine too....but I’m loving all their work and listening to it a lot in lockdown
Lock up for me if it was just to make it a better than everyone else had
I wanna meet that Dad.
dope dad!
ur Dad has impecable taste homie
this is the first band I have ever heard that can convey tragedy and hope all at the same time. Incredible!!
Have you heard of the metal band Agalloch? While a totally different genre, they're weirdly compatible with BOC for me and give me that same feeling of tragedy and hope, loss and nostaliga. Check out Falling Snow, Not Unlike the Waves, and Limbs if you ever get the chance, they're something special.
Shlohmo - The End
True!°
Explosions In The Sky
These are hard times and this album seems fitting.
I fucking love Gemini. I can't describe it. They just capture the essence of the whole album in that one track. A kind of foreboding, but not in a way where you're helpless or defeated, but more like you're joining into the feeling, making it your own and embracing it, and going forward to meet what is to come...
BoC are subtle, knowing full well their synth is nostalgia inspiring, by calling out the future, they're placing the listeners in the zeitgeist of a would-be previous generation looking at the future, i.e our present. But this future they had in mind, full of promise, is so much more hopeful, brighter, almost innocent if not to say naive. So BoC sound is that yearning for the loss of innocence. Progress is cool, but it ain't what it was promised to be. So that typical old school robotic synth is that reminder of what yesterday sounded futuristic, which to the modern ears already sound stereotypically naive, but the BoC takes that sound to another level, adding an atmosphere devoid of anything else, not beat to break that "promise," it's as if that promise still stood, in an alternative universe, untouched, still looking to the future that would have been our present.
BoC is fundamentally postmodern and psychedelic, postmodern for it actively creates a future based on a naive past and long gone conception of the future/progress. Psychedelic for the lack of "groundedness", the atmospheric creation of the sound, like a cloud passing in the sky, barely a shape, barely formed, barely a thing, and yet forever promising to take shape. The hope in this positive future is kept. The innocence of the past injected in our veins like that missing substance to our present, a present where the future has already materialized but in a disappointing form, not the shape that was promised to us. This groundedness in the present is really a loss of trajectory.
I guess the message of BoC is that any purpose is better than none, even a false hope is better than a world of facts devoid of trajectory if not to say faith, faith in something, anything, faith in progress and the future, faith in something, faith for its own sake, believing for the sake of believing in something, not the object of belief is the stuff we yearn for. We at best momentarily reach that stage through drugs, but when the trip is over, even the faithful no longer believe the way they used to believe. But then the faithful of the past had a certainty that might not have been all that based in beatitude nor all that comforting. Could it just be a projection of the present onto the past of what they imagined the future would be?
In the end, it seems BoC musical landscape is always self-referencing rather than self-centered, pointing away to a place it pretends existed, but actually pointing to a place every song is painstakingly recreating, with every note, with every synth, until it is faithfully (pun intended) restored, and made past. But that imaginary past feels so good, in the end, we enjoy its fiction and wish it to be real. And we're back to nostalgia, but for a place that never was, and in that sense BoC is more postmodern than psychedelic.
no shit.
Yep.
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Man I wish I could write like you.
Impressive analysis, I see all of that and can not refute it. I think you hit the nail on the head with this. It is definitely both postmodern and psychedelic, and in the ways you explicate more of the former than the latter. You have such clear insights about such foggy material, I love it. Very well said!
Oh this record was so hating by everyone in the beginning, but now, a few years later a modern classic: not more but no less. I love it
Very good point and very true! Now, it just sounds like a great BOC record, timeless.
for me the best album of boc
It was a brilliant return to form after The Campfire Headphase.
Definitely doesn't have that 1970s daydream quality to it, but still has the lazy Boards of Canada feel.
That was hardly shit though, really!
this is heavy and real
if you listen to it without judgement it will affect you
its amazing what can be said sonically without words
@acabobie on the first track. Put loved the Video game start. Originality out of the box probably?
@acabobie It pulls you in and washes your soul clean.
@@dereksidi7725 This is some very beautiful out-of-the box originality, from start to finish.
We did it to ourselves
Extinction is preferable
@acabobie The Anthropocene Epoch
Hard not to be down listening to this in 2020. I remember first hearing it in 2013 and it haunted me for many years because I couldn't fathom how our peaceful, strange, nostalgic Boards of Canada had taken such a dark path. What did they see that we didn't?
Well... here we are.
Wow I feel the exact same way. But in hindsight we could all see this coming, many things have hinted us for many decades, but we (our leaders) were to arrogant to face the facts I guess.
Taken a dark path on _this_ album? Have you heard Geogaddi?
@@WillyJunior Thought this was way bleaker than Geogaddi personally, though that one wasn't exactly sunshine and daisies either
For me geogaddi was the culmination of so much - their ultimate masterpiece. It was the apocalypse album. And tomorrow's harvest is the post apocalypse album IMO
They likely smoke a lot of DMT.
I was one of the skeptics when i first listened to this album, it left a very unsettling vibe with me. After re-visiting this album 3 years later i can honestly say i am appreciating it a lot more. With that said i still hope that this is not their last album.
exactly the same for me man, appreciate it in a completely different way now
Also the case for me, always had a relatively low opinion of this album in comparison to their others, but it clicked recently. I think it's an album that NEEDS to be viewed as a whole. Less standout moments, but a brilliant musical journey from start to finish, everything feels complete.
We were expecting warm and fuzzy 70s and instead got a dose of cold, electronic early 80s. They were simply a few years ahead of us.
mr luucky Same here. Definitely off-putting, unsettling vibes. It was like being in denial, I felt "yeah this is okay, but it's boring, meandering, without soul"... Separating it from their previous work, I felt it was less meaningful and more just depressing. I think that being more ambient than their previous LPs also contributed to the "empty" impression I initially got from it.
But mostly I think I was afraid and in denial about a number of things which this album brought to light, and I couldn't handle the gravity, the depth, and the cold, hard truths to be found in it and in what it reflected. Coming back to it, I do appreciate it more, and do feel that it has it's place in their canon. There is plenty of meaning in this record, but it is distinct from their other albums. They are all unique albums of course, but something still separates this one from the other 3 for me, namely that it's colder, darker, lonelier than the others, that it's more "pregnant with emptiness" than before.
The fact that it had any effect at all, even if that effect was aversion, means that it's a work of art; it moved me. I think they accomplished what they set out to accomplish. After all, they weren't exactly intending to make cheerful, rose-colored music here, as netjunkie9 pointed out.
mr luucky Boards...can't do bad product.IDM is one of the finest genre in music history(alongside art rock and trip hop)
10 years of listening to this beautiful album and it's only getting better.
A soundtrack for the times being.
Walking with BOC albums in my headphones I'm having a deep philosophical inner conversation. This is more than just music. Masterpiece
Palace Posy is just an anagram for apocalypse
jack oldman wow nice find
Whoa
not just, is. just makes it sound insignificant, and it isn't.
wOw! HOLY CRAP!
Also there was a shop called "Posy Palace" that sold flowers in their hometown when they were kids.
Keep coming back in the wake of all the pandemic news this week. I've found I really am drawn to their music when things get uncertain or tense. Somehow they help channel and refine my thinking in times of great stress, and help put it to music.
Pretty much all of their music feels nostalgic but this album in particular has a really eerie quality of existing in the present and in the near future. It feels more grounded and concrete while maintaining and modernizing that haziness and dreaminess their music became famous for. I wasn't sure about this album when it first came out because it sounded cleaner and more modern to me or something. I couldn't exactly put my finger on it but I now believe it was a conscious decision because this album isn't like the other ones - it music for the here and now.
This album to me is about the turbulence we're increasingly spiraling towards every day. Climate change and all of its associated fallout looms especially large when I listen here but like the tracklist, it's specter isn't always crystal-clear and the threats seem to be on many fronts at once; illness, decay, shortage, conflict, and a planet that is heading towards lots of problems.
I feel like the bros have made their most direct message with this album and it certainly paints a picture. They claim to be nihilistic in their interviews but to me this album is their way of reminding people that dark times are ahead and in the process almost making a call to action. It's an hour of tense dark music that leaves you feeling heavy but it no longer seems like a nightmare from yesteryear but something real. something that people need to acknowledge and start moving towards helping and compassion.
My 2 cents. BoC forever
Yessss. Their music has always kind of felt nostalgic and futuristic simultaneously to me, though. Taking the bus to college many years ago in my childhood neighborhood, their music made me feel like I was visiting my neighborhood after being away for many years. It was a strange feeling.
Azzathony Boardtano here
Cool story bro
@@harper6345 Glad you liked it :)
Boards of Canada's music will still sound fresh 50 years from now. That's how good their execution is, even if the sounds they tend to use are reminiscent of decades past, their isolated and vivid sense for melody keep them ahead of their time.
Track 1 is so conceptually different to every other thing they've touched. It honestly begins like a triumphant tune, you can tell that at the end of the day the BoC boys are just massive synth-heads.
It more closely resembles something from early Floyd than what I typically associate with BOC, but still amazing.
Sounds like the soundtrack to an eighties' dystopian film. Very cool.
Id say thats a perfect description.
This one's about old Carpenter movies which all had these weird soundtracks. In fact, Carpenter's made a nice live show out of those soundtracks, I believe.
Spot on! Exactly what I was thinking :).
+Rohan Sask
Seen the movie THX-1138 ?
I wasn’t ready for this when I heard it in 2013. In 2023 I’m ready
For anyone desperately in search for more Boards, listen to the first section of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's obscure b-side SB - 02. Was blown away by it and certainly didn't expect it from an indie band.
I once talked to Ruban after a show and he commented on my BoC t-shirt and cited them as an inspiration for his recording techniques. It was a cool moment of validation
If we salt the earth beneath our feet for today's gain - what will come of tomorrow's harvest?
It will come to dust!
excrono nice..
Listening to boc while looking at the album artwork causes a disturbance in my energies that is both frightening and exhilarating at the same time. I've yet to find anyone who is not moved in some way either positive or negative by this music. Pure emotion.
Arguably the one BoC album that has a blunt, clear message. Like all high forms of art, essentially preaching to the choir. Those who need to hear it most, are not in a position to even want to hear it.
Wow! It sounds like their tribute to John Carpenter. Absolutely flawless. The reprise of the beginning of reach for the dead at the songs end really got to me a bit.
As amazing as this album is, I personally think the first 5 seconds are absolutely incredible. It sounds like a countryside news anchor starting broadcast
yeah it is amazing. how they perfectly capture the 1970's cartoon vibe... so sick
for me it sounds like the intro to some fire awareness tape they show you in school, like when the company's name is revealed at the beginning
it's what youtube intros should have been, like a 70's company intro logo, not bass boosted EDM
When the news paper gets too thick
Dark. Disturbing. Makes you feel uneasy. Sounds like the end of the world but made on cutting edge instruments from 1978. Menacing. Uneasy.
I love it
The album cover picture was taken in Howat St, Govan, Glasgow in the 1980, I was 4 years old and blowing bazooka Joe bubble gum was the reward for collecting and scavenging glass ginger bottles around the streets and bins for the ½ pence deposit, as children we didn't know how poor we where, innocence, laughter and imagination was our shield.
at some random library studying, but had to log in to appreciate how beautiful Boards of Canada is. they created an atmosphere that i love to be in, possibly forever
I can't think of another band that has informed the aesthetic of my life and art more than this one.
me too
Don´t hear them Dani, they just don´t understand 😛
Listened to this the first time and as soon as the last track faded out, a storm began. It's raining heavily and you can hear thunder roaring across the skies. Perfect.
The album cover is interesting. . .is it dawn or sunset- or the initial flash of a nuclear detonation.
Maybe both....
it is the moment of detonation. farther up, someone shared the image of the cover's other meaning/version; the tru col version here looks pretty uncanny/filtered for something so simple and natural as a sunrise to photograph, but that's because flipped and color-inverted it's the rubble AFTER the explosion. very clever how they made it work, as a photomanipulation you'd think "crap fake sunrise" instantly but there's a reason/message to why. puu.sh/ygrLa/0d916e2782.png
@@sparkpenguin Wow. Some parts of this album are more creepy that Geogaddi (for me). Maybe because the creepyness is less explicit here, masked behind shades of tranquility, and then so subde and so terrifying one time that you discover the true message/vibe of the album.
beautiful
@@Gy0952 That is such cool commentary, great points.
The soundtrack to where we are heading as humanity. This should send shiver down the spine of everyone. BoC really nailed the omnious feeling of impeding doom.
kulturvultur mogwai - music for a forgotten future
kulturvultur I think humanity has a bright future. Humanity has never been this prosperous, peaceful, or harmonious. if you think it's bad now, then you don't know much about how we were in the past. spaceward ho! brothers and sisters!
what makes us human? Are we going in the right direction as humans? Progress is temporary. What comes after?
I remember finding the cold, merciless desolation of the album (the message, I guess) pretty affecting. It really brought to mind the idea that humans are causing their own slow, painful destruction through our own short-sightedness and vanity, judged by fate/circumstance/the cosmos/the gods/etc unworthy to go on. I'm in my mid-twenties, and the thought of that stuff happening in my lifetime fills me with dread and a perverse, morbid excitement - the spirit of Tomorrow's Harvest, I reckon.
"Semena Mertvyk" is the exact opposite of hopeful
Out of all of BoC's albums, this one paints the most vivid images in my mind...
My head feels two miles wide listening to this!
This album was worth waiting for...I have been following them from Music Has The Right To Children. It's the soundtrack for the end of the world.
Boards of Canada are nature to me, it's birds gliding at the beach.
If there is such a thing as a prophetic instrumental album, this is it
It took me a minute, when this album came out, to latch onto it. It's cold. Dark. Times were different then and this album felt a little off to me.
Now.
It makes perfect sense. Listening to this album is like coming home.
Finally in the right headspace to dive into this album. It’s been a long time since the music has the right to children/geogaddi days. Hard to believe my buddy told me about this album dropping 6 years ago. Where did time go. Thanks for the upload
This (like their entire discography) has aged well. No album better depicts the current state that the world is in than this. It’s almost like they can predict the future through their tunes. Legendary duo!
I can't recommend you enough listening to this album when you are traveling across the mountains, watching the snowy peaks and all around trees, going trough the highway. It's an out of body experience.
that five track run to end the album... just amazing
My favourite comments section is a BoC comments section. beautiful thought provoking music as always.
Adamant Portraits Braintrust.
Tbh I mostly see BoC comments as pseudo-intellectuals masturbating in circle.
My two favourite bands are Boards of Canada and Depeche Mode (so loving the SoFaD profile pic). Coming in at third place is Judas Priest who are not like the others haha
@@LaMereACaniche Some of these posts are truly deep and insightful though. See Gareth Mensah's post below, his is truly one of the best analyses of this album and BoC I've ever read.
BoC, Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode, Autechre, Moby and a few other comment sections
This makes me scared, worried, and lonely. It’s beautiful. Never have I known a piece of music to make me feel so much. The music is so good at conveying it’s message, or at least the message I got from it.
This album is amazing - so good.
It’s perfect to listen to walking into or around a city at night, the beats and synths match the lights and energy of a city - you retreat into your own world!
For me - it’s Toronto.
Anyway - can’t get enough of this band and Scottish music in general.
I’d love to see them live.
I've listened to their previous three albums religiously and just dove into this one. Cold Earth really stands out to me immediately; what a track.
What a track says old Luther Vanda
Cold Earth is also my favorite track
There are tracks on this album that carry such intensity, its indescribable.
Incredible album, the monumental excitement I felt when they announced it back in 2013 was indescribable, and they managed to deliver something that lived up to the hype. A haunting body of work that never ceases to evoke, BoC proves itself to be one of my all time favourites.
Such a wonderful album.The best imo,but all their music is just as good.
We thank you BOC we miss you ☝💋
You are here ---> Sick Times.
You are here ---> Collapse
@@manuvaad oh god, i'm not ready for my infinities to be split
@@09cf Palace Posy (apocalypse) first.
@@09cf 'infinities' being the greek for testes
Dear god how did I overlook this? Wow. So dope. Perfectly captures the pastiche of this horrible epoch in human history.
I was oblivious to this just until the last few years!!
haha captures the what?
It's hard listening to this album and not becoming saddened by it's bleakness. The first time I opened the vinyl sleeve and saw all the deserted landscapes and abandoned settings I knew it was going to be a dark journey. 10/10
Happy BoC day 2021! Went through Twoism, Boc Maxima, Hi Scores, MHTRTC, IABPOITC, Geogaddi, Campfire Headphase, Trans Canada Highway, and now I’m here. Next stop AFOT, R35TT etc. Cheers!
my favourite BOC album. Can't say why.
So thankful for music like this, such a gift. BOC captures an essence of life that we so easily forget in our daily pursuits; a return to the magic of life and the discovery it holds.
This is it! They've done it. Previous albums were building to this. Reach for the dead, the most epic of all their work. This is Boc's Eno 'An Ending'. I could understand if they never made another record.
i think this is one of the most significant electronic music album of all times with klaus schuze "mirage".It shows the ability of music,in its transcendental aspect,to fix the memory of places in our minds;
Fantano was so wrong about this album. I see quite a few covid posts here. It means something when people listen to music like this during difficult times. This album is special and I'd say probably my top 3 favorite of BOC
So many layers, atmospheres and hidden feelings in this album.
I get high. Lay on my bed. Put on the headphones. Listen to White Cyclosa and it sounds like an alien communicating with me.
More like a God.
Same thing. BOOM! That's the sound of your head exploding
Melvin Müller How dare you! Put is back together. NOW!
Omar what you forget on mary jane, queen collects. Her son will not be defeated. Rick and morty creationists this ambient music is. Extrawelt is better.
definitely a George A. Romero/deserted post-apocalyptic underground car park vibe about this album. With moogs.
Moogs is great. Excellent drummer.
Boards of Canada for life
Esper the Bard i bet they like lorde too. Grimes and ariel pink jumped slave ship in 1980.
Nothing Is Real made me so happy on first listen. I'm glad I finally gave these guys a chance.
Total Profundidad, matices, texturas , capas sobre capas , en su música siempre existe algo que desde atrás florece, psicodelia inspiradora !! IDM
Aguante boc papu
Disfrútalo padre
Boards of Corona
@@pimon-monono same man, I'm feel LOST
more like bored of corona aha
When ads with music pop up while you are listening and it takes you a couple of seconds to register the massive drop in quality.
To me...
The name of the album say it all...
Also the cover...
Capitalism...
@@DerPhiL No...
@@DerPhiLlittle deeper
White Cyclosa makes me think of the opening scene from Terminator 1 where it's the future, and Skynet has taken over.
The soundtrack for 2020 and beyond .......
🥺❤️🤞
This album is like a fine wine.. it's become far better with age.
@@Bankable2790 That's why it's called Tomorrow's Harvest.
Why do you say that?
@@4390BigBoss are you living under a rock?
This album perfectly fits the mood that the spread of the Coronavirus is creating. It's a perfect record for these strange and uncertain times.
Whan a year for the music ! Daft punk releasing RAM and BoC coming back with this masterpiece! I know there's no comparison between them so let's enjoy both albums! Peace n love !
That Intro alone makes this a must have!
I've been listening to and buying music for 30 years now. I'm into roughly 3 or 4 genres. If I could only listen to and keep the catalog of 1 artist it would be BoC. ✨☀️🎈
I have this album on vinyl. It's awesome.
Damn, ur hip
Fugazi, another great band!
Yeah it's like he enjoys it and actually has the money for it or something?
c m1234 oo
Well I have this album on laserdisc.
Actually, I don't, that's a lie.
God damn, Cold Earth is so fucking beautiful.
'Nothing is real'
Candidate for best track on the album IMO!
This has to be my favourite album of theirs. Immense listening, so deep.
It’s my favorite so far.
'Cold Earth' and 'Sick Times' are such fantastic tracks.
2023 now, and this is a reminder to appreciate all beauty in your lives and the world around you before its all too late
It's time to pay the price for all the beauty in our lives
Reach for the Dead is a journey that anyone who appreciates music should take.
BOC's entire discography is like that.
This is one of the best albums ever made.
Come to Dust along with New Seeds definitely makes it on my funeral list
49:00 NEW SEEDS | This song title was alluded to during the Record Store Day incident when a clue uploaded to the official hellinterface TH-cam account was titled "nuevas semillas," which is "new seeds" in Spanish. 52:50 - "I like you", Repeated until the end in the back layers. Highly combined with the melody and difficult to catch. The end of this song contains the "Cosecha" jingle, as heard on the original 6 records, as well as the other number transmissions. The song has a motif that also occurs in Audiotrack 14 of Random_35_Tracks_Tape. The sound heard at the beginning of the track is similar to the sound you hear when cell signal is lost.
I need more. Please release something new, BOC. Your fans need you.
They gave you so much.
'So much' is not enough.
BOC and many other similar bands helped me through depression over a decade ago and now this music makes me think about existence and how damn profound everything is. There is a legitimate excitement within me, to be alive. It's crazy.
shit is so crazy how now this is one of my favorite albums of all time, and i was extremely disappointed when it first dropped
Your cousin said the same thing about abortion
The Electronic Voice in track 5 sounds like the voice of Konstantin Raudive who did EVP research or communication with spirits through electronic means. After he passed in 1974, sessions were then conducted by a former associate who made recordings of communication with Raudive using electronic devices. This is what the recording of his voice sounded like.
that's really cool
Seems silly in 2021, but I still spin this like it's kind of new! Which is wonderful, but I hope the next album arrives soon...
I feel ya in 2022. Gone so quick since its release
The first time I heard Boards from Canada a few years ago, I felt like I had heard the best songs of my life, but I thought, "I can only be crazy", today I appreciate it as if I had had a wine. It's splendid, it's a mixture of sensations.
A primeira vez que ouvi Boards do Canada há alguns anos, senti como se tivesse ouvido as melhores músicas da minha vida, mas eu pensei, "Eu só posso ser louco", hoje eu aprecio como se eu tivesse bebido um vinho. É esplêndido, é uma mistura de sensações.
Love it, great music to plug into the headphones and work on a project... while occasionally feeling like the end-of-the world is about to happen!