I'm kind of struck by the negativity from a lot of BoC fans towards this track, for me this track contains some of the most interesting compositional concepts on the entire album. These melodies that unfurl non-linearly by revealing themselves in little bursts speaks to me as one of the more profound/psychedelic things BoC have done.
Listening to this on the train ride home made me a little teary eyed.
Also when I'm not in the mood to listen to Tomorrow's Harvest in its entirety I can't help playing Telephasic Workshop after this one. They almost feel like cousins to me.
adecentman wrote:This song during the live stream....wow....
I'm kind of struck by the negativity from a lot of BoC fans towards this track, for me this track contains some of the most interesting compositional concepts on the entire album. These melodies that unfurl non-linearly by revealing themselves in little bursts speaks to me as one of the more profound/psychedelic things BoC have done.
Listening to this on the train ride home made me a little teary eyed.
Also when I'm not in the mood to listen to Tomorrow's Harvest in its entirety I can't help playing Telephasic Workshop after this one. They almost feel like cousins to me.
adecentman wrote:This song during the live stream....wow....
I'm kind of struck by the negativity from a lot of BoC fans towards this track, for me this track contains some of the most interesting compositional concepts on the entire album. These melodies that unfurl non-linearly by revealing themselves in little bursts speaks to me as one of the more profound/psychedelic things BoC have done.
Listening to this on the train ride home made me a little teary eyed.
Also when I'm not in the mood to listen to Tomorrow's Harvest in its entirety I can't help playing Telephasic Workshop after this one. They almost feel like cousins to me.
i think gyroscope too
I'd certainly say so, but in a different respect. Gyroscope was actually one of the first tracks my BoC-loving friend Logan brought up when we were discussing our initial reactions to this track. Definitely finds common ground in terms of a repetitious drumbeat complimented by noodling synths (or perhaps backwards guitar in Gyroscope's case).
I am totally in love with this song. I am in love with almost every note on this record so its hard to say its my favorite but certainly a major standout. Its somehow both a new direction for BoC and their most BoC sounding track on the record at the same time. Maybe its the ratio of challenge:comfort in it. I dunno. Its so haunting and just stays with me for hours at a time.
I am wondering if its a metaphor for how the entire record is supposed to be listened to. If it is in fact a reference to the Jacquard Loom, then that makes sense when you think about what folks are saying about how the songs can be overlapped and mixed a little so they flow into one another. Maybe the tracks on the record overlap and form a continuous loop. The ticking sound that goes in 3s sounds like it could be the sound of a machine such as a loom. I am sure someone has already mentioned that too.
To me, it seems like this track was composed on the fly with live synth noodlings over an oddly synced infinite delay that gets ducked (with a long feedback) as soon as you run new sounds through it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the feeling that they have not spent too much time on this one [unlike most of their other tracks].
Scories wrote:To me, it seems like this track was composed on the fly with live synth noodlings over an oddly synced infinite delay that gets ducked (with a long feedback) as soon as you run new sounds through it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the feeling that they have not spent too much time on this one [unlike most of their other tracks].
I respectfully disagree. To me this piece feels very 'worked' in order to achieve that disorientating feeling; kind of bleak and lost and confused. There are many progressions and variations throughout the track, not just in melody but in sound and placement. In some ways this serves the same purpose within TH as Gyroscope did within GEO (track 4 again too!), throwing the listener a slightly atonal curve-ball in order to prevent too much comfort and affecting the way the remainder of the album is perceived
I agree. Call me deluded, but it seems to me like the track was carefully made to sound like a lot of random noodling. When you listen closely, you'll see that there's really no randomness: the loops are deliberately regular all through the track, and made to be offbeat. It sounds like snatches of 70's film soundtracks assembled in a way that feels random. And when the song finally resolves on an actual chord progression at the end, it's entirely justified.
It may be just fanboy mode, but I don't think that the duo would make their "less worked" track the longest on the album.
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Can't listen to it unless i'm intoxicated / numb on something.
That stupid in and out drum.
On the first listen I didn't really like the drums, they felt a bit harsh and hurt my ears a bit. After a few listens it doesn't really bother me anymore though.
