Boards of Canada Reach for the Dead - New Single Available For Download From Bleep!

It's awesome. Totally psyched for the album now, and the video is great too. 4.00 onwards is like a visual representation of dying. Sends shivers down my back.

Fantastic track and video.

3.27 and on in the video is the best thing I've ever seen.

OK, after listening to the track I pre-ordered the album.

the landscapes and images i've seen thus far remind me of Breaking Bad

i wonder if BoC were out on the road in an RV like the lab

cooking up beats in the back

  On 5/24/2013 at 1:27 PM, surrealist said:

the landscapes and images i've seen thus far remind me of Breaking Bad

 

i wonder if BoC were out on the road in an RV like the lab

 

cooking up beats in the back

someone needs to get photoshopping...

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someone needs to get photoshopping...

 

 

My plez...

http://www.neilkrug.com/VIDEOS

  On 5/24/2013 at 2:08 PM, phudoshin said:

 

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someone needs to get photoshopping...

 

 

 

 

My plez...

 

brilliant!!

couldn't help myself...

ha i was gonna redo the wording exactly that way.... sweet

So I made a playlist with one song from each release from MHTRTC and since including reach for the dead. Looking for similar vibe throughout.

01 Reach For The Dead

02 Macquarie Ridge (very similar vibe)

03 Seven Forty Seven (heavily bit crushed snare)

04 In A Beutiful Place Out In The Country (similar build up)

05 Pete Standing Alone (beats are similar actually, but slower and not digitally distorted)

06 Over The Horizon Radar (similar vibe, such a lovely track)

07 Left Side Drive (distorted high end on drums)

Alpha & Omega would fit in well, although maybe it's a little too fast.

The Devil Is In The Details has a similar vibe as well, or The Beach At Red Point ... I'm surprised there's only one Geogaddi track in your list. But it's probably the best choice.

Watched the video for RFTD on my home theatre system last night... that song is AMAZING - so much detail in the sound. This will be a fantastic album for headphones, or on a good soundsystem.

For some reason while watching the video, I almost expected to see them out in the desert, with their synths, perhaps Michael on a drum set, playing the track while the sun flared from behind...

The part where the skyline is mirrored and rotates is my favourite.

I think there's one clear trend and that's that their beats have become less hiphop like and more digitally distorted consistently, definitely from TCH through this track.

Oh, and the wife confirms those are roses, not Posies in the video.

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:11 PM, LOL Alzado said:

I think there's one clear trend and that's that their beats have become less hiphop like and more digitally distorted consistently, definitely from TCH through this track.

Yeah, I even heard some Depeche-Mode like bitcrushing (not sure if that's the term) on the ending bit, where it sounds metallic...

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:11 PM, Joyrex said:

I almost expected to see them out in the desert, with their synths, perhaps Michael on a drum set, playing the track while the sun flared from behind...

 

 

lol

  On 5/24/2013 at 12:21 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

Everyone who thinks the track is OK, keep listening. It might click.

I was skeptical of this initially, but I think you're right. The more I listen, the better it gets. :)

The progression in the last minute or so is particularly heart-wrenching.

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:17 PM, keltoi said:

 

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:11 PM, Joyrex said:

I almost expected to see them out in the desert, with their synths, perhaps Michael on a drum set, playing the track while the sun flared from behind...

 

 

 

lol

 

oh! lol that took me a minute to get, I'd already forgotten about that video

If Aphex Twin is to: slowing down tracks

...then Boards of Canada is to: _______

http://youtu.be/sOK3qAki-fc

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:34 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:17 PM, keltoi said:

 

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:11 PM, Joyrex said:

I almost expected to see them out in the desert, with their synths, perhaps Michael on a drum set, playing the track while the sun flared from behind...

 

 

 

lol

 

 

oh! lol that took me a minute to get, I'd already forgotten about that video

 

If Aphex Twin is to: slowing down tracks

 

...then Boards of Canada is to: _______

 

http://youtu.be/sOK3qAki-fc

 

Interesting how the synth drone sounds virtually the same forwards or backwards...

I thought this track was pretty great.... First listen I wasn't terribly impressed. Second listen I can hear lot more detail in the synth work... can't wait for the rest of this. >.<

although, mine does say "despatched" on bleep. =)

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:11 PM, Joyrex said:

 

 

The part where the skyline is mirrored and rotates is my favourite.

Me too. I don't want to sound too fanboy-ish, but it's got a transcendental quality to it.

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:47 PM, StephenG said:

I thought this track was pretty great.... First listen I wasn't terribly impressed. Second listen I can hear lot more detail in the synth work... can't wait for the rest of this. >.

 

although, mine does say "despatched" on bleep. =)

It just means some pothead in the WARP distro office is smashing the parcels with a mallet.

"Oi, Guvnah - want me to despatch a few more of those Canadian Board rekkids?"

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:49 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:47 PM, StephenG said:

I thought this track was pretty great.... First listen I wasn't terribly impressed. Second listen I can hear lot more detail in the synth work... can't wait for the rest of this. >.<

 

although, mine does say "despatched" on bleep. =)

It just means some pothead in the WARP distro office is smashing the parcels with a mallet.

 

"Oi, Guvnah - want me to despatch a few more of those Canadian Board rekkids?"

 

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:48 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

 

  On 5/24/2013 at 4:11 PM, Joyrex said:

 

 

The part where the skyline is mirrored and rotates is my favourite.

 

Me too. I don't want to sound too fanboy-ish, but it's got a transcendental quality to it.

 

That part really surprised me at how well done it was, but how simple as well. The sun splitting into three was neat too.

The track has a real effect on those watching it... I sat transfixed, whereas with the Cosecha Transmission One video I struggled to maintain focus on it.

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