Tomorrows Harvest - Today

May 28, 2017

TH moods

**beerwolf** · June 16, 2017

I had to house sit this week, look after my mums gaff and her Jack Russell Harvey (and most importantly water the flowers, garden, shrubs, herbs and precious hanging baskets, and obviously walk and feed Harvey, and look after the pond and feed the fish, and fix the goddamn fucking fence) Midsomer Murders.

However being a cunning fox, by Thursday evening everything is in perfect order and pristine, so all I had to concentrate on today was The Hound, and Harvey was walked along the River Thames at 7am, back home by 9am. So I've been toasting my success all day (putting up a decent fence by oneself is a bit of a trick)

Get back to HQ from pub (whirling and waving on my bicycle) in the sunshine and I want something I can roll with in a happy mood, but not bullshit pop and not to much of a brain-strain so I put this on. Man what a perfect album. As time goes on this proves more than it mettle.

Edited June 16, 2017 by beerwolf

BoomTssPhace · June 17, 2017

For me, it got to a point where i knew whatever was the album sounded like could not possibly live up to expectations i had at that time. I guess it's bound to happen with so much time between releases, how much i'm in love with them, and just the nature of their music in general (i.e. particular, signature, motif-based). Ya just kinda build yourself up to an unrealistic extent, so i ended up letting it enter my earholes and do what it wanted. Admittedly this took a while to register as ~new BOC~ but in time, it fit right in with the rest of their music i had come to know and love

**beerwolf** · June 17, 2017

I really need to stop posting while inebriated, always seems like such a brilliant idea at the time, but end up coming across like an attention seeking fucking idiot, who needs a good hard slap.

Edited June 17, 2017 by beerwolf

BoomTssPhace · June 17, 2017

On 6/17/2017 at 4:40 PM, beerwolf said:
I really need to stop posting while inebriated, always seems like such a brilliant idea at the time, but end up coming across like an attention seeking fucking idiot, who needs a good hard slap.

Nonsense, everyone one here is an attention seeking fucking idiot, that's y we love u

..unless you just really want that good hard slap

Qalab Wighek · June 17, 2017

thats why i dont drink, dont do any drugs and dont even smoke weed (as of the last couple days)

im sober and feeling like a magnificent righteous cunt, if that means someone wants to catch an assault charge I guess I'm fucking game.

sweepstakes · June 17, 2017

On 6/17/2017 at 5:08 PM, Qalab Wighek said:
dont even smoke weed (as of the last couple days)

lol

pyramidpanes · June 17, 2017

On 6/17/2017 at 5:08 PM, Qalab Wighek said:
if that means someone wants to catch an assault charge I guess I'm fucking game.

Auditor · June 17, 2017

the struggle is real

BoomTssPhace · June 17, 2017

Someone get him a medal already

Embers · August 31, 2017

I came across an interesting quote in my readings and saw the immediate applicability to the album. This quote was so powerful and the connections to the album so clear that I contemplated it for days and wrote up my thoughts. Or maybe I'm just severely autistic, eh, probably. You make up your own mind.

Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD), a Roman poet and astrologer, said of the Gemini twins in his poem Astronomica,

Quote
"From the Twins come less laborious callings and a more agreeable way of life, provided by varied song and voices of harmonious tone, slender pipes, the melodies inborn in strings and the words fitted thereto: those so endowed find even work a pleasure. They would banish the arms of war, the trumpet's call, and the gloom of old age: theirs is a life of ease and unfading youth spent in the arms of love. They also discover paths to the skies, complete a survey of the heavens with numbers and measurements, and outstrip the flight of the stars: nature yields to their genius, which it serves in all things. So many are the accomplishments of which the Twins are fruitful."

Astronomica itself is a hexameter didactic poem.

The number 6 and associated symbolism (primarily, hexagons) is a recurring item in Boards of Canada's music.

Didactic refers to something that is "intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive." - Tomorrow's Harvest could be interpreted as didactic, commentating on how our current behaviours affect ourselves, our environment and inform our future (direct instruction / teaching), but also providing an opportunity for self-reflection, reparations and a path to salvation (moral instruction - "a more agreeable way of life", "banish the arms of war", "life of ease...in the arms of love").

Comments on phrases from the quote, as they relate to Tomorrow's Harvest

"...laborious callings..." - a direct reference to the album's title. A call to action. Work that must be performed soon. Something that must happen in the future. Something that must be faced in the future. Tomorrow's Harvest. Ties in with the sense of "something impending" oft used to described the album, even by the brother's themselves in an interview.

"...less laborious callings and a more agreeable way of life..." - the quote indicates that the Twins call for an easement in work, or hardship, and a better way of living. This ties back into the moral instruction of the album. The only way to prevent our future suffering is to better ourselves in the present, to unburden ourselves from potential hardship. We can change the future by changing the present, that we do not need to walk the path of self-destruction.

"...provided by varied song and voices of harmonious tone, slender pipes, the melodies inborn in strings and the words fitted thereto..." - a direct reference to the music.

After the trumpet vignette (which itself is a signal of the coming apocalypse, as said in the Bible's Book of Revelation), the body of the track Gemini fades in with strings.

slender pipes and melodies - woodwind, particularly flute-esque melodies, are a recurring theme in BoC's music.

words fitted thereto - the album heavily features both subtle and non-subtle samples of human spoken word, Gemini included.

"...the gloom of old age..." - the emphasis on the old age being a negative ties in with the moral instruction to change for the better, that something has changed or will [have to] change for the better. The transition from the old age to the new age, from darkness to light, that something is not the end but the beginning. This further ties in with the theme of cycles on the album. This is perhaps reflected in the track Gemini by the swirling, oscillating noise that backs the intense striking of chords. The album itself goes through 5 cycles of birth>death>rebirth and can be correlated to the 4 sides of the vinyl edition.

Side A: Gemini (the call for better living) > Jacquard Causeway (an uneasy, perhaps perilous time or journey)

Side B: Telepath (a new kind of life) > Collapse (destruction)

Side C: Palace Posy (a very indigenous beat in this track, almost tribal/primitive, represents the dawn of a new society) > Sundown (coming of darkness)

Side D: New Seeds (a new beginning, a new era, a new society) > Come To Dust (to die), followed by Semena Mertvykh ("Seeds of the Dead" - a new society emerges from the ashes) which cycles back onto the first track, Gemini.

"...unfading youth..." - BoC often touch on nostalgia, most often tied to sensory experiences that occurred in our youth, and directly ties in with BoC's style and sound. In the context of the quote, it implies a positive: direct instruction to be carefree, to live well and happily. However, on Tomorrow's Harvest, it is commentary that we are negatively tied to the past, and the moral instruction to better ourselves is to unhinge from the past and instead look forward to where we are headed. The duality of this interpretation, not only a reference to the duality of the Gemini twins, but also highlights the tension between where we currently are at, and where we should be. That tension is change, specifically and how society often oscillates (cycles) between change and resistance to change.

"...discover paths to the skies..." - reflective of the album's imagery, particularly the music video for "Reach for the Dead" which features scenes of flying through the sky, the air, the sign of Gemini. But also implies a level of technological sophistication, as a human requires understanding and invention of tools to fly. It is interpreted that technology may be our downfall, that it may outstrip our control, causing a catastrophic event. The album is littered with reference to understanding and technology, from the radioactive yellow on the vinyl (nuclear technologies requires understanding of matter), to the idea of a harvest (a human development that requires understanding of agriculture and associated technologies). Perhaps the idea is that which brings us so much ease and knowledge, that which identifies us as human - our ability to craft and use tools - can also undo us. Not an original idea for the album, but a common one used in all sorts of media that touches on catastrophic/apocalyptic failings of humans.

"...complete a survey of the heavens with numbers and measurements..." - a call back to BoC's earlier work that was heavily laden with references to mathematical concepts (numbers and measurements). A meta-reference that BoC themselves have yet again changed their sound on Tomorrow's Harvest. It may be BoC saying they as people have changed ("We've become more nihilistic", as quoted in an interview), an implicit example that people can change. The idea of surveying and measurement also ties back into the previous line of thought of technological sophistication and building knowledge. But can also be abstracted into the idea of surveying and measuring how things are, to make an assessment and to make changes for the better.

"...outstrip the flight of the stars..." - still following the line of thought on technological sophistication.

"...nature yields to their genius, which it serves in all things." - commentary on the ubiquity and pervasiveness of technology in nature. That their genius (their technology, their ability to manipulate their surroundings with said technology) serves all things (complete control of nature). But when we are so in control of our environment, what do we do with all that power? That is the core question presented on Tomorrow's Harvest- and we can be destructive or fruitful. This is the ultimate moral consideration presented here.

"So many are the accomplishments of which the Twins are fruitful." - the ultimate direct instruction. We should use what control have for the better, to be fruitful, and for all to prosper without war, but in peace and love. To not live in the old age, but move into a new age. To live a more agreeable way of life.

August 31, 2017

thank you.

September 1, 2017

great analysis in to the history. the rise and fall of Roman Empire is probably my favorite part of human history (parallels with our civilization).

but what really gets me in to Tomorrow's Harvest universe is the fatalizm of events that will happen no matter what. the human life begins, ends, again rebirth and so on. same with the civilizations. rise and fall and then rise. cycles. and if we as civilization heading towards destruction through war and chaos (but still there are always people who belive in good. and hope for the better.) like one of BOC's said in the interview that "there's always a room for a hope",but still you can not escape that is waiting for you, no matter what, it is in our nature. maybe it's called nihilism.

**beerwolf** · September 1, 2017

their albums universes and backstories are just as brilliant and even more mysterious as the actual music, which is a very clever trick

maybe we'll get the official stories one day, otherwise I feel I'm reading the rantings and ravings of lunatics : )

*howls at the moon*

Edited September 1, 2017 by beerwolf

**Caretstik** · November 12, 2017

On 6/16/2017 at 7:18 PM, beerwolf said:

I had to house sit this week, look after my mums gaff and her Jack Russell Harvey (and most importantly water the flowers, garden, shrubs, herbs and precious hanging baskets, and obviously walk and feed Harvey, and look after the pond and feed the fish, and fix the goddamn fucking fence) Midsomer Murders.

However being a cunning fox, by Thursday evening everything is in perfect order and pristine, so all I had to concentrate on today was The Hound, and Harvey was walked along the River Thames at 7am, back home by 9am. So I've been toasting my success all day (putting up a decent fence by oneself is a bit of a trick)

Get back to HQ from pub (whirling and waving on my bicycle) in the sunshine and I want something I can roll with in a happy mood, but not bullshit pop and not to much of a brain-strain so I put this on. Man what a perfect album. As time goes on this proves more than it mettle.

I enjoyed this entire post apart from the use of the word 'goddamn' which should never be used in speech or text by anyone from Great Britain. As for myself, I put on Tomorrow's Harvest today and really enjoyed it. I thought more than a few tracks were reminiscent of 'Geogaddi', but it's all BoC so why worry?

**beerwolf** · November 13, 2017

Hmmm I don't like people bumping old forgotten drunken posts of mine into the cold light of day, (and trust me I was well lubricated with that one^^^)

Makes feel like a vampire that's just had his casket door wrenched open on a cloudless, sunny day in mid-July

Edited November 13, 2017 by beerwolf

drukqs · November 14, 2017

On 10/26/2016 at 8:08 PM, drukqs said:

On 11/19/2014 at 5:28 AM, Candiru said:
The beat on that track is so dogshit it's really what makes it so fun to bash this album(and I don't even really hate the album)
I dunno, it seems like they put the polyrhythm there intentionally to make it less catchy and more discordant or dreadful. There are some nice chords but its all out of sync and there are different time signatures going. I think Goiter's analysis was pretty spot on for the overall mood of the track.

Still not a great track in my opinion. I see what they were going for, but it's pretty hard to listen to.

Ugh. This post.

Yeah, not sure if it's a polyrhythm still but I do now really like Jacquard Causeway. I was listening to it the other day and damn, something about the way the melodies repeat themselves and but seem to change in textural quality and add reverb every time they repeat, like they're degrading away as some machine assembly line carries them away. Just got a stark image of a factory assembly line on this one.

The sound design on the album in general is top. Took me a while to appreciate but damn. It's like each synth is densely layered, their textures are just so clear sometimes. Even the sounds of digital static, etc. It's like how lo-fi musicians try to sound, but actually done right. Clear, crisp, layered and cold.

Kennylogg Bubblebath · November 15, 2017

fuck whoever laid into jacquard causeway

that is very much top tier music

QQQ · November 15, 2017

On 11/15/2017 at 10:57 AM, valleyinaire said:

fuck whoever laid into jacquard causeway

Candiru · November 18, 2017

Fucking me wont make the track any better though. Weirdos.

melancholera · November 23, 2017

Favorite part of Jacquard is when the sustained chords come in at the end. It's like it almost gives it some resolution but not quite.

phudoshin · November 24, 2017

This album is the perfect soundtrack to my messed-up life right now - cold but a warmth bursting through, desolation but growth, the winding down of electronic noise/interference... a return to nature of sorts. That feeling of wanting to go off grid, in this strange information-saturated world

KovalainenFanBoy · November 24, 2017

damn...

Hk47 · April 8, 2018

I am WAAAAY late to the BOC fan club... But over the last two months, I've really started clicking with their music.

I don't know why I ever thought it was (please don't hate me) cheesy, but listening now, Tomorrow's Harvest, Live in Sussex @ ATP, MHTRTC and especially Geogaddi are all able to take me on incredible journeys through wonderful sonic territory.

These are the only albums / live shows that I have so far, but I am, now (finally?), quickly becoming a fan of their work. I'm definitely excited to dive into more of their work & live shows.

=D

YangYing · April 8, 2018

On 4/8/2018 at 10:44 AM, Hk47 said:

I am WAAAAY late to the BOC fan club... But over the last two months, I've really started clicking with their music.

I don't know why I ever thought it was (please don't hate me) cheesy, but listening now, Tomorrow's Harvest, Live in Sussex @ ATP, MHTRTC and especially Geogaddi are all able to take me on incredible journeys through wonderful sonic territory.

These are the only albums / live shows that I have so far, but I am, now (finally?), quickly becoming a fan of their work. I'm definitely excited to dive into more of their work & live shows.

=D

listen to the old tunes

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