Tomorrow's Harvest

SO∆PYJUICE · Post by **SO∆PYJUICE** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:25 pm

waited til last night to listen to it at my buddy's cottage with some close friends. was an amazing time. fully love the album in every way.

thepastinsidepressant · Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:41 pm

its starting to grow and worm its way in now, the production on it is definitely their best yet i will say that, drums and bass espeically and mature writing. for all the tracks ive difficult with, was 5 now down to 3, i just cant skip them now, its an album that demands an entire listen and repeat plays. what helped was going back and starting again, from early works to last few albums then one can see the difference.

thepastinsidepressant · Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:58 pm

Cold Earth, Sick Times and Palace Posy, i think i've noticed with these 3 tracks a technique where the underlying bass and kick drum booms every 2nd or 4th bar, always loved how they program their drums. they don't just fire it together these lads, sounds simple but theyre painstakinly thought over.

blankleader · Post by **blankleader** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:03 am

euue · Post by **euue** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:39 am

ha, nothing new here, but i just like this pic my local record store posted on fb

blankleader · Post by **blankleader** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 3:17 am

Oops.

blankleader · Post by **blankleader** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 5:03 am

Obviously, "Gemini" should be in the middle.

TaoTapeTao · Post by **TaoTapeTao** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:37 am

blankleader wrote:

You should probably stop spamming that link

Naal · Post by **Naal** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:28 pm

Ok, having listened to the new album several times , I'm really starting to love it and being far from sick of it so it will be listened to a lot more in the future.
But I have to say while it is a very good record (it's a BoC record so it is by definition a great record imo) , it's not my favorite record in the discography.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that times have changed a lot since first having heard their music over ten years ago, and having more musical baggage so to speak.
But also due to the fact that Tomorrow's Harvest sounds a lot more 'realist' and nihilistic compared to their older records. The other albums have more of an escapist dreamy quality to them that's somewhat missing in this one.
But still a very good album. And I guess so far White Cyclosa is my favorite track.

TaoTapeTao · Post by **TaoTapeTao** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:25 pm

Naal wrote:But also due to the fact that Tomorrow's Harvest sounds a lot more 'realist' and nihilistic compared to their older records. The other albums have more of an escapist dreamy quality to them that's somewhat missing in this one.

...Nothing is Real?!

LKaoaKSo · Post by **LKaoaKSo** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 3:59 am

To me this record unifies the escapist with the realist in a balance. It's vivid

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:20 am

i really love this record. and i can tell its only going to grow stronger over time

Naal · Post by **Naal** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:50 pm

TaoTapeTao wrote:
Naal wrote:But also due to the fact that Tomorrow's Harvest sounds a lot more 'realist' and nihilistic compared to their older records. The other albums have more of an escapist dreamy quality to them that's somewhat missing in this one.
...Nothing is Real?!

Ok, I stand corrected. But yeah the escapist dreamy quality is still there but maybe not as much in an optimistic/nostalgic manner as it used to. But that doesn't mean the album isn't absolutely brilliant.
Loving it more and more with each listen.
It's also much better to listen to when there are more grey skies instead of scorching sunlight outside.

LKaoaKSo wrote:To me this record unifies the escapist with the realist in a balance. It's vivid

Yeah, maybe this is a better way to word it.

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:59 pm

thepastinsidepressant wrote:its starting to grow and worm its way in now, the production on it is definitely their best yet i will say that, drums and bass espeically and mature writing. for all the tracks ive difficult with, was 5 now down to 3, i just cant skip them now, its an album that demands an entire listen and repeat plays. what helped was going back and starting again, from early works to last few albums then one can see the difference.

i agree 100%... this album, seems to, even more than the others. demand you to listen to the entire album each listen.

on first listen the album seemed very slow, and almost sleepy.

but after about 3 or 4 listens i began to feel emotionally connected to it, in the same way i do with their previous work.

i listened with headphones on all my first listens. but on the 3rd listen i had a friend over my house, who is also a fan of BOC. so we listened to the album together.

i find it funny, but we listened to the album through my television, so the quality was pretty crappy. and yet it was this listen that the album really stuck out.. when i heard the album this time, the songs split your infinities, and nothing is real. really really stuck out. and i couldnt believe just how strong they made me feel emotionally. and they always will.

Goiter Sanchez · Post by **Goiter Sanchez** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:27 am

Not three hours ago I listened to Tomorrow's Harvest for the very first time. I'd been holding out on any and all material related to the album so that I could tackle it all at once. I packed up my tablet with the wavs and my Grados and drove out to an abandoned gravel pit about 20 minutes out of town. Today was sunnny and windless. Here's a picture I took of the location right before I started up 'Gemini'.

Needless to say TH was A LOT to take in... One thing that I can confidently say is that it didn't disappoint in the least and I was utterly swept up in what I was hearing and seeing. There were swarms of small green insects crawling on the branches above my head that seemed to pivot and skitter in time with what I was hearing. Birds darted in and out of the scene as well, adding to the aural tapestry of the album with their sounds. An eagle dove into the ocean on my left just as the drums picked up on 'Cold Earth'; couldn't see if it came up with anything. Overall I felt as though I was experiencing a BoC fan-vid waking dream of collaged documentary footage: it was a glorious experience that I will always remember when I listen to TH.
As dark as this album is purported to be (and it certainly has its moments) 'Palace Posy' stood out as a revelatory moment of levity; it is such a fun track that initially struck me as having been cut from a similar emotional cloth as MHTRTC's Aquarius in the way that it grows and shifts melodically, THEN that bizarre vocoder drops in and I was just floored! I can barely recall track 11 because I was still reeling from Palace Posy! 'New Seeds' was also a standout on this cursory listen; that unrelenting ratatat tribal arpeggio sound that they are messing with on this album used absolutely brilliantly on this track!

So that's one listen thus far and I am even more excited to dive back in!

jtk · Post by **jtk** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 5:52 pm

My take for what it's worth after listening to this album countless times, beginning with the live transmission.

I instantly liked this album during the live transmission, which kind of worried me because every one of their albums have had to grow on me some before really understanding/liking/appreciating what they were trying to do.

MHTRTC has always been my favorite BOC album. I am starting to think this new album gives it a run for its money, and that it is easily #2 now for me. I really think there is a lot more going on then what I heard during my first listen. Every time I listen to it I realize just what and how much I hadn't noticed before, and I've probably listened to it 40 or 50 times so far on headphones and car stereo. Next up is to break open one of the vinyl copies of the album.

Having been a long time fan of the likes of John Carpenter, Mark Isham, and the soundtracks to many sci-fi and even zombie movies, has really helped to seal it for me.

Anyway, as usual, well worth the wait and still listening to it every day.

Negamuse · Post by **Negamuse** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:57 pm

I was thinking about the years of run up to the release, there was all that talk of it being delayed (which I guess was more of a "it's in progress but taking a while" rather than "its done and we're not releasing it because reasons"). I'm glad they took the time with it and released it when it was fully baked. Great album, maybe their best. But then, I'm listening to some other stuff from the time between TCH and TH.

You had people like Gatekeeper doing properly balls-in film noir, Carpenteresque stuff in '09, VHS Head reassembling 80s video nasties into Trademark Ribbons in '10 (I'm sure there were others). There was enough stuff out around the time it was being called "immenent" that was sort of almost if you squint kinda nearly on theme in one way or another. You had the global financial collapse, and shit generally ramping up on the environment front.

Meanwhile, nothing specifically about 2013 that says "now is the right time to release it", and compared to a few years ago people seem to have moved away from the 80s soundtrack sounds to whatever goes into the blender to make vaporwave.

Hmm.

earthportal · Post by **earthportal** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:30 pm

Finally had my chance to listen to the new album. I took a hike into some dense forest and just got lost in the experience. It was excellent. I felt like the earth was communicating in some new language that I had never heard before. The music really took me through some dynamic atmospheres.

JosephG · Post by **JosephG** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 12:52 am

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It's been down and up for me. At first.. I was totally fanboy'ed out. Then a wave of.. Uncertainty??
And now. I love it. Every track. What a wonderful release from all the shit. Simply delightful.

goonstock · Post by **goonstock** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:26 am

listened to this album in San Francisco, near the golden gate bridge. I shit you not, a few seconds after white cyclosa started, i looked over and there was a helicopter flying under the bridge. this album is perfect for the presidio, on weed