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The lasting impression I get from Tomorrow’s Harvest is that Boards of Canada have become a desultory, diminished force. It will surely sell millions.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest

Holy shit what a fucking douchebag.

wow, that was hard to read.

If I ever have the chance to meet this person in real life I'm gonna pepper spray his eyes and kick him in the balls and then forcefeed him a printed copy of his shitty review

What the fuck does this even mean: "What’s left is close to what Dick called kipple: the contemporary shorn of relevance; luxuriating junk."

that's the oddest record review I've ever read in my life

Contrarian fail. He's doing a negative review for attention - or this is a pretty shitty way of admitting you actually don't give a shit about music. Or maybe he just likes dance music (he's give glowing reviews Planet Mu juke/footwork albums and other future garage/bass/dubstep albums 3s and 4s) so I dunno.

In some ways it's worst than the Rolling Stone review - that was just a lame blurb clearly written hastily (though the author denied when I confronted him on twitter). Skimming the other reviews by this author show he can write the same way about albums he likes. Even if he didn't care for the record, it comes off as so fucking forced in it's negativity. He also gave a 5 star to Oneohtrix Point Never's Replica and that more than anything makes me wonder if the 2 star review was specifically to be known as the one noted "negative" review for Tomorrow's Harvest. That's the only way these sites get any attention: they review the same albums as everyone else and another 4 or 5 wouldn't have warranted a thread here or any talk elsewhere.

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:06 PM, joshuatx said:

That's the only way these sites get any attention: they review the same albums as everyone else and another 4 or 5 wouldn't have warranted a thread here or any talk elsewhere.

actually, i think if they wrote a glowing review they'd get more attention because people would use their quote/links to justify their points as well as people saying "finally, a publication that gets it right" or similar accolades.

but by writing a negative review, they risk losing current and potentially new readers

If i read this right after my first couple of listens I would completely agree.

-but, it's what you don't catch at first that really matters with this album.

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:28 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:06 PM, joshuatx said:

That's the only way these sites get any attention: they review the same albums as everyone else and another 4 or 5 wouldn't have warranted a thread here or any talk elsewhere.

 

actually, i think if they wrote a glowing review they'd get more attention because people would use their quote/links to justify their points as well as people saying "finally, a publication that gets it right" or similar accolades.

 

but by writing a negative review, they risk losing current and potentially new readers

 

I don't disagree with you personally, but I think that's the problem, these sites are going off of retweets and FB shares more than anything else. Most of these publications rather get buzz for 24-72 hours than write a review people will cite 5, 10, or 15 years from now. At least people can laugh at such reviews later on...

http://youtu.be/kvogqD8NIS8

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:06 PM, joshuatx said:

He also gave a 5 star to Oneohtrix Point Never's Replica and that more than anything makes me wonder if the 2 star review was specifically to be known as the one noted "negative" review for Tomorrow's Harvest.

Err, indeed, i think oneohtrix lps are way better than tomorrow's harvest.

  On 6/13/2013 at 10:34 AM, k h o v said:

 

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:06 PM, joshuatx said:

He also gave a 5 star to Oneohtrix Point Never's Replica and that more than anything makes me wonder if the 2 star review was specifically to be known as the one noted "negative" review for Tomorrow's Harvest.

 

Err, indeed, i think oneohtrix lps are way better than tomorrow's harvest.

 

euh, no.

  On 6/13/2013 at 2:03 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

  On 6/13/2013 at 10:34 AM, k h o v said:

 

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:06 PM, joshuatx said:

He also gave a 5 star to Oneohtrix Point Never's Replica and that more than anything makes me wonder if the 2 star review was specifically to be known as the one noted "negative" review for Tomorrow's Harvest.

 

Err, indeed, i think oneohtrix lps are way better than tomorrow's harvest.

 

euh, no.

 

That's not exactly my point, just saying it's a curiously stark difference in opinion from the same person.

wow, this is from said replica review:

The pith of Replica: a latticework of sibilants, laminals, clicks, implosives, ejectives, fricatives, pulmonics: a consonantal chorus of lost voices, the vocabulary of a glossa sans logos — a weave of desecrated smidgeons kindling ablaze the embers of a braked and stuttering exotica.These breaths, this lexicon, are like the same image, in the same part of the frame, occurring across several channels — differential interventions within the context of severalmises en scene: vestiges of an arcane prosody. Taken as a mirroring device, this bleeding-edge bricolage aims at the experiences obscured by experience — the traditions hidden behind tradition (what Lopatin has called “Pictures, not of the actual world, but of us watching that world”). As with the work of Leyland Kirby, any impact is undergirded by a private topology of shattered dreams, ecstasies of disappointment and despair wrought from a phenomenology of the screened image. Julian House’s Focus Group project, generating library records out of bits of other library records, is another touchstone. The engineer-archaeologist has become a stylist-iconographer, tabulating.

Matey boy obviously likes masterbating over thesarus' lol

  On 6/13/2013 at 7:00 PM, Alcofribas said:

wow, this is from said replica review:

 

The pith of Replica: a latticework of sibilants, laminals, clicks, implosives, ejectives, fricatives, pulmonics: a consonantal chorus of lost voices, the vocabulary of a glossa sans logos — a weave of desecrated smidgeons kindling ablaze the embers of a braked and stuttering exotica.These breaths, this lexicon, are like the same image, in the same part of the frame, occurring across several channels — differential interventions within the context of severalmises en scene: vestiges of an arcane prosody. Taken as a mirroring device, this bleeding-edge bricolage aims at the experiences obscured by experience — the traditions hidden behind tradition (what Lopatin has called “Pictures, not of the actual world, but of us watching that world”). As with the work of Leyland Kirby, any impact is undergirded by a private topology of shattered dreams, ecstasies of disappointment and despair wrought from a phenomenology of the screened image. Julian House’s Focus Group project, generating library records out of bits of other library records, is another touchstone. The engineer-archaeologist has become a stylist-iconographer, tabulating.

  On 6/13/2013 at 7:00 PM, Alcofribas said:

wow, this is from said replica review:

 

The pith of Replica: a latticework of sibilants, laminals, clicks, implosives, ejectives, fricatives, pulmonics: a consonantal chorus of lost voices, the vocabulary of a glossa sans logos — a weave of desecrated smidgeons kindling ablaze the embers of a braked and stuttering exotica.These breaths, this lexicon, are like the same image, in the same part of the frame, occurring across several channels — differential interventions within the context of severalmises en scene: vestiges of an arcane prosody. Taken as a mirroring device, this bleeding-edge bricolage aims at the experiences obscured by experience — the traditions hidden behind tradition (what Lopatin has called “Pictures, not of the actual world, but of us watching that world”). As with the work of Leyland Kirby, any impact is undergirded by a private topology of shattered dreams, ecstasies of disappointment and despair wrought from a phenomenology of the screened image. Julian House’s Focus Group project, generating library records out of bits of other library records, is another touchstone. The engineer-archaeologist has become a stylist-iconographer, tabulating.

waits for punchline...this is an alco post right?

lol when i read that review i was like "man, i need to step up my parody reviews. actual reviews are getting even more absurd than mine!"

^ lol

  On 6/13/2013 at 7:00 PM, Alcofribas said:

The pith of Replica: a latticework of sibilants, laminals, clicks, implosives, ejectives, fricatives, pulmonics: a consonantal chorus of lost voices, the vocabulary of a glossa sans logos — a weave of desecrated smidgeons kindling ablaze the embers of a braked and stuttering exotica.These breaths, this lexicon, are like the same image, in the same part of the frame, occurring across several channels — differential interventions within the context of severalmises en scene: vestiges of an arcane prosody. Taken as a mirroring device, this bleeding-edge bricolage aims at the experiences obscured by experience — the traditions hidden behind tradition (what Lopatin has called “Pictures, not of the actual world, but of us watching that world”). As with the work of Leyland Kirby, any impact is undergirded by a private topology of shattered dreams, ecstasies of disappointment and despair wrought from a phenomenology of the screened image. Julian House’s Focus Group project, generating library records out of bits of other library records, is another touchstone. The engineer-archaeologist has become a stylist-iconographer, tabulating.

agreed

  On 6/13/2013 at 6:18 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 6/13/2013 at 2:03 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

  On 6/13/2013 at 10:34 AM, k h o v said:

 

  On 6/12/2013 at 11:06 PM, joshuatx said:

He also gave a 5 star to Oneohtrix Point Never's Replica and that more than anything makes me wonder if the 2 star review was specifically to be known as the one noted "negative" review for Tomorrow's Harvest.

 

Err, indeed, i think oneohtrix lps are way better than tomorrow's harvest.

 

euh, no.

 

 

That's not exactly my point, just saying it's a curiously stark difference in opinion from the same person.

 

yeah, but its just showing how lame the reviewer is and lame is kind for this kind of individual, this reviewer is just uneducated musically, have not develop his own taste. Oneontrix is just some hipster ambient music, and BOC is too good now for hipsters to like it, so they diss it, or whatever.

That was pretty amusing. Obvious troll is obvious.

I have to give him credit for reminding me of the word kipple. My hard drive is exploding with kipple and I need to do a cleanup. To say nothing of my space in real life *wince*

  On 6/14/2013 at 2:29 PM, murphythecat8 said:

yeah, but its just showing how lame the reviewer is and lame is kind for this kind of individual, this reviewer is just uneducated musically, have not develop his own taste. Oneontrix is just some hipster ambient music, and BOC is too good now for hipsters to like it, so they diss it, or whatever.

 

 

Have you heard Rifts by Oneohtrix Point Never ? Its a pretty strong record, trust me.

Dafuq?

"There are so many reasons to blow a kiss: you can find them carved into lonely trees on borough recreation grounds and in the handbags of mothers who died in traffic accidents; you can hear them on the radio in a sleeping ship or in the whispers of strangers on the tube."

  On 6/14/2013 at 6:17 PM, k h o v said:

 

  On 6/14/2013 at 2:29 PM, murphythecat8 said:

yeah, but its just showing how lame the reviewer is and lame is kind for this kind of individual, this reviewer is just uneducated musically, have not develop his own taste. Oneontrix is just some hipster ambient music, and BOC is too good now for hipsters to like it, so they diss it, or whatever.

 

 

 

Have you heard Rifts by Oneohtrix Point Never ? Its a pretty strong record, trust me.

 

sure, I liked it when I first listened to it but its far from a amazing record. now its been 3 month I didnt listened to it, didnt miss it at all. You gotta admit it lacks a bit of real consistency. its borderline boring actually, but I'm not surprise that hipsters will love it.