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Any Tomorrow Harvest fans out there? Why do you think this album is better than other BOC albums? Why do you like it? What criticism of this album do you disagree with?

>>127402115 (OP)
Played out apocalyptical crap. Imagine their albums without the lame gimmicks thrown on them, would anyone remember them?

>>127402187
You just don't know how to feel their music

>>127402222
I know, next time I'll put myself in a false state of delusion that its good

>>127402115 (OP)
I disagree with the general attitude that this album is worse than their other ones. I think it’s great. As for the content, I don’t necessarily feel that this is quite an “apocalyptic” album. It more so gives me the feeling of inevitable decay. It’s a timelapse fugue state of a slow fading-away. But regardless of interpretation, I think it’s a really enjoyable album. It’s a trip, much like their other stuff. I hope they release more music someday.

>>127402115 (OP)
Worst BOC album
8/10

>>127402115 (OP)
>Music has the right to your children
>Tomorrow's harvest.

Something deeply wrong here

>>127402115 (OP)
literally the best BoC album, only topped by In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country which is an ep

My favourite BOC album; an excellent soundtrack to today's fucked up society.

Campfire > Music has a Right

>>127402880
Good take even if I don't agree

>>127402532
>Gay-o-Goddick
>The Cumtire Headspace

It sounds like a 70s sci-fi movie score in the best way. Love it.

>>127402187
what gimmick?
its just music

>>127402904
It loses a bit of steam in the 2nd half but those first 7 tracks easily rival the best off of music has the right for me anyways. Satellite Anthem Icarus might be their best track period. Second half has some fantastic tunes as well, Hey Saturday Sun, Slow This Bird Down and Macquarie Ridge

>>127403777
Yeah, the first half of the album is definitely better.
It's really hard for me to ranking their albums because excluding TH and probaby R35, they're all 10. But so far it would be MHTRTC > TCH > Geo > R35TT > TH

>>127402624
>today's fucked up society
This makes more sense
It also seems that each new album is the opposite of the previous one. From childhood bright memories they moved to childhood traumas, then to escapism away from everything bad, and after forests and beaches were replaced by deserts and ruins, a cruel world from which you cannot hide

>>127402115 (OP)
Winter's my favorite season.

>>127403296
I think my biggest critique of the album is that it leans a little too hard on John Carpenter. I find BoC much more interesting when they're doing creepy plunderphonics.

>>127404175
Fucking all wrong, Geogaddi is so obviously summer, Campfire is spring, Music Has the Right is winter and Tomorrow's Harvest is Autumn

The album is explicitly apocalyptical at first glance but the title and even the cover (a sun rise) implies some hope after the inevitable collapse of society (likely caused by technology, as they hint with nods to Joseph Marie Jacquard). And then you have songs like "New Seeds" that end with a glimmer of a hopeful melody. It's the idea that societies live and die in cycles, and the hope is that from the rumble a better, new civilization emerges.

It is very relevant a decade later after seeing all of our progress with AI.

>>127404214
When is earth at its coldest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdglpRwhoQE

>>127404214
Nah, this pic perfect

>>127404266
TH is Autumn transitioning into winter, you know everything dying off and society going into hibernation

>>127402115 (OP)
I find it hard comparing their albums because they all have such distinct identities while being of a similar amazing quality. I think your favourite BoC album will probably be the one which emotionally resonates with you the most, which for me is either MHTRTC or Geo. Like I said TCH and TH are still just as good imo, but they don't resonate as much with me thematically but I could definitely see that changing as I get older. I fucking love Boards of Canada so much bros.

>>127404683
> I think your favourite BoC album will probably be the one which emotionally resonates with you the most
True

>>127402880
I find TCH a bit plodding and samey, but it's their best headphone album with so many layers of sound to get lost in. It reminds me of summer camping trips in the Lake District when I was a kid.

>>127404266
I always took Cold Earth to be an allusion nuclear winter, like at the end of Threads where crops are failing because there is barely enough sunlight and the earth is literally too cold to grow anything nourishing

For me it's bocmaxima

LP5 is beyond our comprehension

>>127405332
LP5 are the sounds we'll never hear. The first post-hauntology piece of art.

>>127402115 (OP)
>>127402465
>>127402624
The whole album it's incredible, but there's two specific tracks that always give me that "haunting feeling"
>Nothing Is Real
The song by itself it's melancholic as fuck, but that experience it's enhanced by that one music video
Not to mention the "Jesus monologue" right in the middle of the song
All in all, it never fails at making me go into a spiral of bittersweet memories, y'know
>White Cyclosa
This one it's also a sureshot of melancholy, but there's also the track's title itself
Like, the whole theory about how it's a metaphor of winter, and it's comparison to a spider's trap
A spider that regularly pulls a fucking Vlad Tepes, and deliberately decorates it's web with corpses

>>127402222
Based quads

>>127402115 (OP)
I love it. It feels like it was ahead of it’s time. Or maybe I was just behind the times. Regardless, there’s something in the atmosphere of this album that feels particularly relevant or even prescient. It might even be my favourite BoC album. Except all the others are amazing too so I don’t know lol.

>>127402506
My exact sentiments. It was nice to hear from them after a while of nothing, and it doesn't come close to Music/Geogaddi/Campfire, but it still kills.

>>127402187
would anyone remember you if not for your embarrassing opinions?

Pretty great. Might even be soke of their best work. Geogaddi is king tho.

I love Boards of Canada so much. Bumping this thread, it deserves to be higher up compared to the other bullshit threads on this board.

>>127411737
Same. Serious question, is there anything that even comes close? Like I love other IDM like Autechre and Aphex but emotionally the vibe is completely different. I've found no other music that makes me feel even similar to the way that BoC does.

>>127411884
I think Christ. gets the closest, and earlier Tycho got had similar synth sounds occasionally, but it's not the same.

The mix of samples, analog synths and beats that Boards use are pretty idiosyncratic and are made on rare pieces of equipment, so I think people struggle to even imitate it.

I always thought someone would come out of the woodwork and successfully copy them, but it's yet to happen, to my knowledge.

Anyone else like A Few Old Tunes vol. 2?

>>127411884
Classical music i guess? Like why not

>>127412691
How do you mean?

>>127413369
The same emphasis on composition and emotion.

>>127412101
what are the must hear tracks from these old compilations?
I only know of 5.9.78 which is one of their all time best tracks. Kiteracer 2 which is pretty good.

>>127411737
>and what is your favourite letter of the alphabet?

>>127402115 (OP)
Tomorrows Harvest is great if you feel like there's no future and no hope. IABPOITC is still their best work though

Reminds me of mass effect's OST which makes it my #1 for them easily

>>127402115 (OP)
I used to play this album whenever I had snow storms up here. it's a great album

>>127416513
I still do. But I used to, too.

Call me crazy, but this is one of the best BOC tracks. Like top 5 at least
https://youtu.be/cxbOeD0ez8Y?si=mDA7OlOiHfMQ0WFL

>>127402880
This is an opinion I cultivated so long ago that it would be sacrilege for me to think anything else

>>127416944
BASED
I love this one too

Where's the firecracker?

bump

Twoism is underrated. This song somehow makes me sad and happy at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fnb7APrAeo

>>127420629
Agree, was literally just listening to it when you posted this. So good.

>>127402115 (OP)

TCH has always been my favorite but TH managed to creep its way into second place over the years as a sort of inverse version of Campfire. I found it underwhelming upon release but man, it does a great job of maintaining a kind of exhausted paranoia as things slowly crumble all around.

...Except for Palace Posy, which seems to be a fan favorite but it just never clicked for me and just kills the mood. I now always skip it.

>>127411981
>Tycho
Definitely the closest
Hell, they even made a "mini-cover" of Roygbiv, right in the middle of Dye

>>127414091
The Old Tunes saga is best if just listened to in its entirety. It's a remarkable capsule of a certain time. While there are lots of songs that are absolutely within the sound that BoC has on their official albums, there's plenty of shorter interludes or snippets that make the whole thing something extra special to listen.
As far as the best songs that have that specific BoC feel too them:
>Forest Moon
>Sequioa
>5.9.78
>Mukhinabaht
>Kite Racer 2
>BMX Track
>Buckie High

>>127402880
desu.....

>>127404175
I think it depends on where you live and what memories you have associated with the seasons. Geogaddi reminds me of brutal summers and Campfire Headphase is the cozy autumn nostalgia album.
Listening to Geogaddi in the scorching heat with sweat pouring out of every orifice is an insane, primordial experience that people should try.

>>127411884
>Picrel
Kek

>>127420899
thanks, anon. I ended up listening to vol 2 in full yesterday, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

>>127422312
>Listening to Geogaddi in the scorching heat with sweat pouring out of every orifice is an insane, primordial experience that people should try.
yeah I always associate Geogaddi with that once every few years storm you get in the middle of a 30 degree heat summer

>>127422312
True, Campfire is summery to me, because that's when I've always gone camping. I don't associate any of the others with seasons. Maybe TH with winter, because it's dark and gloomy.

>>127404175
Swap summer and autumn and I agree with this

>>127404175
>>127404214
>>127422312
>>127423543
>>127423674
>>127424828
here's a crazy idea, they have multiple summer albums. Campfire and Geo are both summer, Children is spring and Tomorrow is fall

>>127402880
This is honestly the best album of all time.

>>127411884
Deadmau5 released one of the best Boards of Canada tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amBBO4PqJKo

>>127422312
>I think it depends on where you live and what memories you have associated with the seasons
This. But that's exactly why Geogaddi doesn't feel "summer" to me. My experiences with summer is traveling to beautiful beaches, look at pretty girls and party a lot. Geogaddi is way too creepy for that lol.
>Listening to Geogaddi in the scorching heat with sweat pouring out of every orifice is an insane, primordial experience that people should try.
But I'll try that suggestion anyways.

>>127422312
>>127426771
Based and Percées de lumière pilled
To do a Sweaty Summer Sage Session™ it's like having a fever dream, except you are actually in control all the time, so you can actually focus on introspection without having to fear about death by dehydration or whatever
It's kinda like fasting, or doing an all nighter, but it's heat instead of either hunger or sleep

>>127425147
You stop that right now, running your mouth with your smart arse, fancy pants common-sense and logic.

>>127412101
>>127414091
>Kiteracer 2 which is pretty good.
update on this post I made 30 something hours ago, I have changed my mind. Kiteracer 2 is a 10.

>>127412101
Am I hearing bass guitar on the first track? This is different. Not bad different, though.

>>127411884
https://piotrkanabus.bandcamp.com/album/movie-magick
https://piotrkanabus.bandcamp.com/album/movie-magick-2 (i like this one more)

>>127412101
>>127420899
Boards of Canada is a top 3 artist for me and I am just now hearing about these releases.
I love threads like these.

Bump

>>127433436
Ooh that's pretty nice, thanks

I go through periods where I'll listen to nothing but BoC for like a couple of weeks on end a few times a year.

I love this band, bros. Hopefully LP5 happens

>>127435594
You must check Random 35 Tracks Tape

>>127402222
Quads of truth

>>127436470
Will do. Is there a download link?

>>127437040
https://youtu.be/io2yvhyl4S4?si=zh-No6bqxJeAYURW

>>127438396
Cheers

>>127402115 (OP)
good as any other boc album

If you are looking for a similar sound, there's an artist who uses the retro nosyalgia synth sound boards of canada established for music productions that are pretty decent. Nowhere near the same quality as BoC but if you want more of this sound, there you go.

Jon Hopkins is the name

>>127402115 (OP)
On it's own it's not bad, but after a seven year wait following this >>127402880 it felt like a letdown.

>>127402115 (OP)
Only if BOC stands for BIG
ORANGE
COCK

>>127402115 (OP)
Jacquard Causeway is one of their best songs

I listen to it when I play my zombie apocalypse minecraft mod pack
Its kino

>>127439126
It stands for BIG ÖYSTER COCK, you fucking casual

>>127411884
there's plenty of production copycats out there, some of which are actually pretty good at it. the real missing link in why a lot of it still sucks is they don't know how to compose like BoC at all
https://youtu.be/osuEMx2errA Verbose on this isn't spot on production wise but is pretty close in melody/pads

>>127411981
Christ. is the absolute answer to this. Especially the archival Curio releases that are all songs from when he had his small part in BoC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUUt5vswAx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thn_y-nLn4s

>>127439126
>ORANGE
Yeah, that's right