02. Reach For The Dead (4:47)

[rd1994]

I also hope that if a dvd is made its not like the DC dvd with copies just included in preoders etc. because I prefer buy somewhere else because, shipping from UK is way to high to my home.

[paul]

Is this song good because it was made by Boards of Canada? Or is it just simply amazing?

yes to both ... but heavy emphasis on the latter. i can say in over 13 years of listening to BOC that this is the most I have ever been moved by a single before hearing the whole album. this song/video has taken on a life of its own.

[kid]

not sure if this has been mentioned but, the video shown in shibuya is quite a bit different to the one up everywhere else. it's edited differently, the sun inside the rectangle appears earlier in the track, then cuts to different scenes before coming back to 3 suns that converge into 1, rather than 1 splitting in to 3.

[gestell]

Reach For the Dead is great. Not spectacular, but very promising...

So is Reach For the Dead official single or not? It can only be downloaded, but it has its own video and even cover art by Neil Krug. But can there be official single without physical release? Or we can hope for an EP in month or two perhaps with some additional songs not on TH? How does release of a 'single' work nowadays?

[hexagon son]

I love this track so much. It is always stuck in in my head and it gets bigger with every listen. This is exactly what I've been waiting for.

[armotron]

not sure if this has been mentioned but, the video shown in shibuya is quite a bit different to the one up everywhere else. it's edited differently, the sun inside the rectangle appears earlier in the track, then cuts to different scenes before coming back to 3 suns that converge into 1, rather than 1 splitting in to 3.

interesting...

[Magrathea]

Yes it was mentioned earlier when the official video became available, the shibuya edit is very different even if the footage is the same, the editing is unique to that display.

[Yellow Records]

And the song in reverse...

Jesus Christ...

I don't know which one sounds better. Like they were both meant to play that way, because in the reversed version, there is a clear orchestral backing.

[thepastinsidepressant]

at 4.47 it feels short after several listens now. don't like this dj food edit, jeez leave it alone ffs it does nothing for it and can be played on repeat anyway.
im sure it will all gel within the full album listen. it just leaves me hanging wanting more, and yea they've done it, thats the plan...

[b0qurant]

I went to southern Mexico (Chiapas, specifically) on a sociological trip focusing on indigenous groups for two weeks. Didn't touch the internet the whole time and just returned.

I come back and there's this ... oh my god ... it's like hearing their other work for the first time again. I have emotions reserved just for hearing BoC tracks for the first time and it's been such a long time since I've felt this. This is all I've hoped for from this album.

Cannot fucking wait.

[Capt Kittinger]

Not sure if this has been discussed previously, but does anyone know what is going on outside the window in the RFTD video at 0:48-0:52? What the hell is that? Just a processing artefact?

[Betacord]

A few moments in the video are particularly striking for me, but for different reasons.

The biggest surprise in terms of poignancy I feel, was at 1:15 - a sign apparently linked with the deserted house that says God Bless Our Home...

If it was 'God Bless This House' it wouldn't be quite so striking - but in the context, that it was 'Our Home' to some little family who lived there, coupled with the sense that they are no more...

If living on the earth becomes untenable that perishing is the likely outcome, what else to do - whether resigning to fate or looking for pastures new - to look to the skies in hope; to literally and figuratively, reach for the heavens?

And so it plays out, looking up at the sky in the glare of the sun, we soar into the air...


No idea if this is actually the intent of course... Same with the climax and what I continue to refer to as a 'National Geographic rectangle' framing the sun, which I'm still finding difficult to picture as anything but!

Not sure if this has been discussed previously, but does anyone know what is going on outside the window in the RFTD video at 0:48-0:52? What the hell is that? Just a processing artefact?

No clue I'm afraid. Looked like a white item, a bit of fabric... Might be as innocuous as someone's washing blowing about outside! But it is extremely obscured, too much so to tell.

[Shortwave]

I tried to wait to listen to this but I didn't manage to. At first I only thought that was... "nice", and as I was afraid of, that it could only make real sense and blossom in the context of the entire album. But then well, that unexplicable "BoC force" haunted me and forced me to replay and replay it over and over. And in fact, it did grow on me. It's really a beautiful track, I can hear many intrinsic BoC constant elements, together with many new ones. It's really great how they manage to always move a little forward trying not to lose their intimate nature.

But well, about the video... honestly people, speaking about its possibile significancy, it looks fairly cheap to me. I did not like the visual side of this campaign from the very beginning, it looked almost like a Pinterest board of Instagram random shots of desert and abandoned stuff (really? Again?). I am not an enthusiastic type of guy so I may sound "severe", but seriously, it looks like any other generically "vintage-looking" videoclip with a hint of nature, clouds and other "mystical" stuff. So basically like tons of other videoclips, from early trip hop ones to later chillwave (or what was that called) stuff. Now I know it's BoC and stuff, but really, this does not force us to find supernatural gold in anything they come out with. Also it's beyond ridicolous to bother Kubrick and Tarkovskij for this, except for a shallow and unsignificant visual similarity - which if that's the conditions, we can assume for any vintage-looking videclip. There is no possible element that can legitimate such a comparison - and this is not a matter of enthusiasm, this is practical evidence.

Let's talk about the music

[Licolnshire Poacher]

Stunning. The whole thing. Listened three times including the Japan stream and its already locked into my head. Defo getting DCD off it as well, but Tangerine Dream Stratosfear mainly - down to the album art as well with the strong landscape perspective and geometric motif. Can't be arsed to upload the cover art. Maybe the Internet pixies will do it as I'm goin to bed happy

I thought of Tangerine Dream as well, with remnants of Geogaddi.

I love that your pic is still your avatar btw

[The Spaniard]

The video is about the sun and the effects of this. If you keep this in mind when you watch the video, you will realise that the director is all the time interacting with the sun, and its reflections in the environment. The light inside the house, the shadows, there are a lot of close ups of the sun. Also, the consequences of the sun: consider that the video what shot in a very dry area.

Question: What happens at 0:48? Insinuated suicide? What is that?

As pointed before by the user Betacord, at 01:15 we have "God Bless Our [plural] Home", so we can infer that there was a family living in that house. The next shot is a neglected house, so we have a dramatic effect here. Later, there is a swiming pool without water: again: dry = sun.

[Macfuk]

I mentioned this elsewhere, so sorry for the xpost, but the sample at the start of Reach for the Dead was so familiar...

I went through some old records and found this - it isn't actually the same sample - but both tracks evoke a similar vibe for me.

This is only link I could find

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/ ... 39,00.html

Play the preview for Stero 72, see what I mean?

[Ottomatik]

Am I the one who doesn't realize BoC is back? The song is awesome, the video too. But I just can't get my mind used to the fact that it's new BoC…

[chorus]

The video is about the sun and the effects of this. If you keep this in mind when you watch the video, you will realise that the director is all the time interacting with the sun, and its reflections in the environment. The light inside the house, the shadows, there are a lot of close ups of the sun. Also, the consequences of the sun: consider that the video what shot in a very dry area.

Question: What happens at 0:48? Insinuated suicide? What is that?

As pointed before by the user Betacord, at 01:15 we have "God Bless Our [plural] Home", so we can infer that there was a family living in that house. The next shot is a neglected house, so we have a dramatic effect here. Later, there is a swiming pool without water: again: dry = sun.

I THINK there are several ways the footage can be interpreted and the boys + Krug'n co has given us an interesting backdrop to their new track with as many layers of meaning as the music has both in thought and production.

[chorus]

I mentioned this elsewhere, so sorry for the xpost, but the sample at the start of Reach for the Dead was so familiar...

I went through some old records and found this - it isn't actually the same sample - but both tracks evoke a similar vibe for me.

This is only link I could find

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/ ... 39,00.html

Play the preview for Stero 72, see what I mean?

Nice find!

Can anyone else get the other tracks to play? Im using Chrome on mac, too lazy to try cross-browser/os.

[chorus]

at 4.47 it feels short after several listens now. don't like this dj food edit, jeez leave it alone ffs it does nothing for it and can be played on repeat anyway.

100% agree.