Tomorrow's Harvest nominated for SAY award!

North by North · Post by **North by North** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:11 pm

Back up on youtube, for the moment...

Oh the hype (again).

anecdote · Post by **anecdote** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:21 pm

I just thought of something, maybe they wanted to show this to the audience only because they didn't want the fans to over exaggerate the video or the sound. But then I thought - they should have known that having it cut off on purpose would only cause the fans to be even more excited and would probably cause more exaggeration. I'm sort of off on this, I mean if it means new material or a hint of something to come then that would've been a good reason to have them cut off video, but if it's just a thank you then why would they want that?

Logan71 · Post by **Logan71** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:39 pm

that womans face in vid, i'm sure i've seen her before

Yep, I feel like I've seen this before, likely it's a still from a 70's sci-fi film.

Then again it could be a false memory planted just now by BoC.

ryetronics · Post by **ryetronics** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:23 pm

Logan71 wrote:
that womans face in vid, i'm sure i've seen her before

Yep, I feel like I've seen this before, likely it's a still from a 70's sci-fi film.

Then again it could be a false memory planted just now by BoC.

I tried a reverse-image search with no luck, so I've gone to reddit to see if we can get this identified. Follow this link and upvote it and just maybe we'll have an answer soon...

noatakmoon · Post by **noatakmoon** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:38 pm

I cant get that song off of my mind... at first ir kind if bothered me it aounded too much like TH... but now its like "zomg so lush, so beautiful. More por favor

thepastinsidepressant · Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:46 pm

Logan71 wrote:Yep, I feel like I've seen this before, likely it's a still from a 70's sci-fi film.

at first it thought of AtalantaFugiens youtube avatar from the julie & candy cosecha clue last year, its kinda like it

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:13 pm

That picture at first brought to mind The Brain That Wouldn't Die, but it also made me think of:

they are still very good at using imagery that makes you think of something that you've seen before, but probably haven't.

nick47 · Post by **nick47** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:20 pm

I really dont think it means fuck all guys

im sorry

jcnporter · Post by **jcnporter** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:38 pm

nick47 wrote:I really dont think it means fuck all guys

im sorry

I have to agree. I think it was a cool subversion of a thank you speech, maintained their image and mystique. The arpeggio is likely a snippet lying around the studio, kind of generically representative of their current 'sound'.
I'm sure the work required was probably far preferable to them than attending the awards, a good bit of it probably commissioned by Warp anyway.
As always, though, it's fun to speculate and experience some of that excitement of last year, even if only a wee bit. Of course I could be completely wrong.

Edit to add - there's so much talk these days of how difficult it is for people to make a living from music, how there's no money in records, you have to gig constantly, do as much social media as possible, etc. BOC are in such a great position to be able to opt out of all that, do what they want to do, pull off stunts like this.

Vostok · Post by **Vostok** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:52 pm

whether this is new material or not, it sounds really interesting, especially the beginning. sounds like a rockets taking off or some shit.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:12 pm

Techboy wrote:
PiotrG. wrote:Is that Gavin Harrison speaking before so called "thank you speech" ??? Nobody mentioned him. This guy looks exactly like him. Correct me if I'm wrong. This is of course English extraordinary drummer known for his work with Porcupine Tree and King Crimson.

nope!

Was Vic Galloway wasn't it??

Perch · Post by **Perch** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:02 pm

I like how the shapes that they used this time around looked more like tilted cubes, that when flattened look like hexagons. Really minuscule design thing, but I thought it was cool.

Iced Cooly Beatnik · Post by **Iced Cooly Beatnik** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:52 pm

Completely irrelevant, but damn, Fredd-E, your living room looks cosy as hell.

thepastinsidepressant · Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:21 pm

PiotrG. wrote:Gavin Harrison, This is of course English extraordinary drummer known for his work with Porcupine Tree and King Crimson.

indeed, exceptionally talented drummer, not a fan of the porcs myself, hit n mss, king crimson on the other - up there.
check him out running the fairly newish Nord Drum 2 synth for live drummers on youtube (perhaps BOC live may use something like that, i dunno)

jcnporter wrote: Edit to add - there's so much talk these days of how difficult it is for people to make a living from music, how there's no money in records, you have to gig constantly, do as much social media as possible, etc. BOC are in such a great position to be able to opt out of all that, do what they want to do, pull off stunts like this.

they know it and they're happy with it, what it also says is they're not greedy (when is enough with pop and their €100 tickets?)but live within their means, enough to get by. its sets them apart from pretty much every artist out there thats famous. down with the celebrity. i hear artists championing it but still put themselves out there every time on social media for attention, sad hypocrites really. granted sometimes it has to work for a band to make a living but if their music can stand on its own it will do the talking and the earning.

its perhaps one of the most important aspects of BOC to me, i'm an introvert myself, talented but i don't want attention, just get on with it. i don't enjoy watching djs/laptops anymore, if i go out, i go out to dance, have fun. As Jeff Mills said about the super star dj, it was never supposed to be that way but just the dj in the corner, nobody noticed but danced. Nobody cares, I don't, I don't read lyrics anymore, i write my own but enjoy sound. I have perhaps a changed (strange) way of looking at live bands now, singing and gathering attention. I don't need to see that all the time, its the same thing, over and over and I think thats how BOC feel too, they want it to be special, different, theres a lot of high expectations on them, not another laptop dj again.

sorry for the rant, i'm drunk, i just got my exam results and were up there as i didn't expect. i won't be posting it in facebook either lol

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:35 am

Isn't anyone else going to remark that the synth part is a palindrome?

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:45 am

reminds me of melody from Gemini.

bluesky · Post by **Fredd-E** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:20 am

Iced Cooly Beatnik wrote:Completely irrelevant, but damn, Fredd-E, your living room looks cosy as hell.

hah. /cheers

Aerial Boundaries · Post by **Aerial Boundaries** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:31 am

That arpeggio reminds me very heavily of the soundtrack to the first Mass Effect game, it has that kind of curious, warm scifi quality to it. Perhaps that speaks more to my age than anything because that was probably inspired by 80s soundtrack work.

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:03 am

i like how they wrote thank you, with little t, almost like a little cross, I wonder if they still looking inspiration in those things, TH was kind of bleak experience

Vostok · Post by **Vostok** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 6:13 pm

arvy wrote:

i like how they wrote thank you, with little t, almost like a little cross, I wonder if they still looking inspiration in those things, TH was kind of bleak experience

its just a god damn lower-case t