Will BOC Release A New Album?

  On 6/25/2024 at 9:55 PM, Joyrex said:

He has an account here with special privileges...

Really? This is news to me.  

  On 6/25/2024 at 9:59 PM, Fredd-E said:

Really? This is news to me.  

Surely you're being facetious: https://forum.watmm.com/profile/337-mdg/

Hasn't been here since 2014... oh well

  On 6/25/2024 at 4:35 PM, Wunderbar said:

i heard from credible sources there will be an announcement this Friday.

i just heard from my asshole that a big release is coming.  you'll see.

You know what I'd really be chuffed with?

BOC Maxima - a proper, official release akin to Twoism. Arguably Boards' best work and yes, MHTRTC is the result of that, but Maxima is so special, so... perfect in its arrangement.

  On 6/25/2024 at 10:04 PM, Joyrex said:

Surely you're being facetious: https://forum.watmm.com/profile/337-mdg/

Hasn't been here since 2014... oh well

He continued visiting Twoism until February 2023 if that’s any consolation?

  On 6/25/2024 at 10:16 PM, Fredd-E said:

He continued visiting Twoism until February 2023 if that’s any consolation?

Well, to be fair, there's far more activity there around the band than here, so that makes sense.

  On 6/25/2024 at 10:10 PM, Joyrex said:

You know what I'd really be chuffed with?

BOC Maxima - a proper, official release akin to Twoism. Arguably Boards' best work and yes, MHTRTC is the result of that, but Maxima is so special, so... perfect in its arrangement.

You’ve heard it here first folks, Maxima is getting a release! 

This thread is pathetic.

  On 6/25/2024 at 11:58 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

This thread is pathetic.

Yeah Fred and Joyrex both acting like assholes with each other for no fucking reason lol

I find it entertaining but it is a little embarrassing. I'm guilty of posting some absolute twaddle on here but it's the nature of the beast that this thread is I'm afraid. 
 

  On 6/26/2024 at 9:15 AM, thumbass said:

Yeah Fred and Joyrex both acting like assholes with each other for no fucking reason lol

I can find a few valid reasons though  We’re both 40+ stubborn fans with often an opposite outlook on the future of BoC. Polarization is the foundation of these hefty discussions. And I guess both of us, despite our midlife crisis age, are still very much kids for today. Even more so part of it all is the ages old (needless) battle between WATMM and Twoism forum. I’ve been here for a very long time but still you could feel the animosity.

This topic *is* the new album

The new album is the friends we made along the way

The new BOC album will be A.I generated through this thread, through all the text we said. Those two punks have been sitting there in their off-grid igloo, waiting for us to type whatever here, and they will just sit there and translate it through their current machines, into beats and patterns and shapes whatever, with whatever they have now, since the last album.

The devil makes work of idle hands.
 

(Us not them)

BOC would probably agree with that quote concerning this thread. I do think the 'animosity' side of things has got a bit old.

  On 6/26/2024 at 12:32 PM, beerwolf said:

I do think the 'animosity' side of things has got a bit old.

Too old to be butthurt™

It Doesn't Matter™

Some people believe that whether or not BoC release a new album is a matter of life and death.  I am very disappointed with that attitude.  I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

  On 6/27/2024 at 10:48 AM, NewSchoolScience said:

I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

lol so ur saying it's gonna unite humanity and save the planet? I remember seeing a movie about that once when I was a kid...

  On 6/27/2024 at 5:53 PM, zero said:

lol so ur saying it's gonna unite humanity and save the planet? I remember seeing a movie about that once when I was a kid...

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can we invite boc and afx.. make a thread for them. they duke it out verbally/musically. rest of the forum is images only again so we can only do like popcorn reactions. loser has to release a new album. next season is subforum battle, last place has to go

  On 6/25/2024 at 10:10 PM, Joyrex said:

You know what I'd really be chuffed with?

BOC Maxima - a proper, official release akin to Twoism. Arguably Boards' best work and yes, MHTRTC is the result of that, but Maxima is so special, so... perfect in its arrangement.

agreed.

always thought maxima > music

I was reading Futurology by Simon Reynolds the other day and the section about BoC made me think about the problem they face in making new music. Their music relies on a sort of half-remembered corrupted essence of different eras of their past and they are running out of it. MHTRTC had its warbly analog synths, snatches of disco, public information films of the 70s. Geo was a bit more like the late 60s the death of the hippy dream, darker psychedelia etc. TCH riffed on the sort of lushly arranged acoustic singer-songwriter era of the mid 70s.. TH moved the dial forward a touch to the grungy video nasties of the early 80s..

So what next?

Chillwave already mined the mid 80s nostalgia sound dry, vaporwave has done the same for the early 90s, and of course this sort of monoculture was obliterated by the internet around 2000 by which time BoC were already a going concern. Maybe their next LP will be a hauntological take on the late 90s BoC sound?, eating its own tail?

More likely they will hyperfocus on some specific and semi-underground part of 70s/80s culture and manage to do their usual thing with it. I wonder what that will be?

there was quite a bit of post punk in societas x, so perhaps they're interested in exploring that territory?

You'll See™