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Tomorrow's Harvest - How do you rate it now?
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Tomorrow's Harvest - How do you rate it now?
It's been a year since its release. How do you rate Tomorrow's Harvest?
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"I enjoyed it, but I'm hipster scum with a beard and I'd never admit to enjoying anything that isn't recorded by an obscure Nigerian in 1972."
Biased poll is biased.
3 is more accurate description wise but I honestly would give TH an average rating - totally average, about a dead 5. It's just that the description is off there as well, so I guess I won't vote.
My score is 5 - Disappointed. Has some moments that feel like legit BoC, has some high spots, would have worked much better as an EP with less filler (which is the version I actually listen to for the most part), "palindrome" gimmick doesn't do it for me. Much less layering, absence of the same sort of textural love we got with the previous albums, and finally very cold - which is not an inherently negative thing. It's that they didn't utilize the cold feeling in a way that I thought benefited the album. They seemed to try and make it in the same old "warm" way but with that sound. They got to doing that part right with Uritual, they almost did it with Split Your Infinities, but it falls short just about everywhere else.
New Seeds is still by miles my favorite track on the album. Personally, I preferred it modified with a little bit of stereo widening and EQ'ing it differently (to circumvent the thing I was talking about) but although repetitive, it's a track reminiscent of TCH that definitely says BoC. Unlike some of the moments such as Cold Earth where it comes off like a BoC-alike, that track has it where it counts, and I have listened to it quite a bit.
I just can't help but feel if it were about half the length, mastered a bit differently and slightly less repetitive, I could give this a solid 6.5 or so like Trans Canada Highway. I think if they'd retained the signals and whatnot that we heard in the promotional stuff, the tone of the album would be much better. I think the promo version of Seeds of the Dead is a lot better as it adds texture that was otherwise missing to it. All in all though, while it's undoubtedly the worst official release yet for me, it's not some sort of tragedy by any means and it's pointless to get too upset about it. Its existence doesn't ruin Geogaddi or something. Still, it's very disappointing, not as much as it might be for those who literally waited 8 years in the sense that all they did was keep checking BoC's website (I've never understood all of the "UUUUGHHHHHHHH COME OUT ALREADY...just go on with your life until it's over), but disappointing nonetheless because it's a 5/10 record from a 9/10 band. The band that released Geogaddi. The band that released MHTRTC. The band that released Hi Scores. Etc.
It wasn't an atrocity, an "I fucking hate this band now and can't believe they did that" by any means, like Random Access Memories by Daft Punk which deserves probably a -1 out of 10. As such, I'm still looking forward to what BoC might be up to in the future and hopefully it'll be at least as good or better than TCH this time, which is what about nine billion people were saying about TH before it came out. Tomorrow's Harvest was just very average and the whole experience was just one long hype train fueled by the third rate Year Zero clone ARG that was supposed to take us to Six Flags but dropped us off at a traveling carnival - probably the best analogy I can make. It was one of the big disappointments for me in 2013, a year that was probably the worst for music in my entire life, just barely redeemed in the fall.
That's all, and that's just my opinion on it. Of course if you're one of those people who are offended by the fact that I have that opinion, that probably doesn't matter to you.
Biased poll is biased.
3 is more accurate description wise but I honestly would give TH an average rating - totally average, about a dead 5. It's just that the description is off there as well, so I guess I won't vote.
My score is 5 - Disappointed. Has some moments that feel like legit BoC, has some high spots, would have worked much better as an EP with less filler (which is the version I actually listen to for the most part), "palindrome" gimmick doesn't do it for me. Much less layering, absence of the same sort of textural love we got with the previous albums, and finally very cold - which is not an inherently negative thing. It's that they didn't utilize the cold feeling in a way that I thought benefited the album. They seemed to try and make it in the same old "warm" way but with that sound. They got to doing that part right with Uritual, they almost did it with Split Your Infinities, but it falls short just about everywhere else.
New Seeds is still by miles my favorite track on the album. Personally, I preferred it modified with a little bit of stereo widening and EQ'ing it differently (to circumvent the thing I was talking about) but although repetitive, it's a track reminiscent of TCH that definitely says BoC. Unlike some of the moments such as Cold Earth where it comes off like a BoC-alike, that track has it where it counts, and I have listened to it quite a bit.
I just can't help but feel if it were about half the length, mastered a bit differently and slightly less repetitive, I could give this a solid 6.5 or so like Trans Canada Highway. I think if they'd retained the signals and whatnot that we heard in the promotional stuff, the tone of the album would be much better. I think the promo version of Seeds of the Dead is a lot better as it adds texture that was otherwise missing to it. All in all though, while it's undoubtedly the worst official release yet for me, it's not some sort of tragedy by any means and it's pointless to get too upset about it. Its existence doesn't ruin Geogaddi or something. Still, it's very disappointing, not as much as it might be for those who literally waited 8 years in the sense that all they did was keep checking BoC's website (I've never understood all of the "UUUUGHHHHHHHH COME OUT ALREADY...just go on with your life until it's over), but disappointing nonetheless because it's a 5/10 record from a 9/10 band. The band that released Geogaddi. The band that released MHTRTC. The band that released Hi Scores. Etc.
It wasn't an atrocity, an "I fucking hate this band now and can't believe they did that" by any means, like Random Access Memories by Daft Punk which deserves probably a -1 out of 10. As such, I'm still looking forward to what BoC might be up to in the future and hopefully it'll be at least as good or better than TCH this time, which is what about nine billion people were saying about TH before it came out. Tomorrow's Harvest was just very average and the whole experience was just one long hype train fueled by the third rate Year Zero clone ARG that was supposed to take us to Six Flags but dropped us off at a traveling carnival - probably the best analogy I can make. It was one of the big disappointments for me in 2013, a year that was probably the worst for music in my entire life, just barely redeemed in the fall.
That's all, and that's just my opinion on it. Of course if you're one of those people who are offended by the fact that I have that opinion, that probably doesn't matter to you.
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Okay...now...wait for fog machine.
Rodheh wrote:"I enjoyed it, but I'm hipster scum with a beard and I'd never admit to enjoying anything that isn't recorded by an obscure Nigerian in 1972."
Biased poll is biased.
I aim to please. Incidentally, for the record, I have a beard and have music by an obscure Nigerian, although it was more 1978 I think
Slow down...
Boards of Nigeria?Mexicola wrote:Rodheh wrote:"I enjoyed it, but I'm hipster scum with a beard and I'd never admit to enjoying anything that isn't recorded by an obscure Nigerian in 1972."
Biased poll is biased.
Incidentally, for the record, I have a beard and have music by an obscure Nigerian, although it was more 1978 I think
Okay...now...wait for fog machine.
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Yeah, definitely 10.
Considering any kind of synaesthetic associations, it gave me the best visual experiences to date I think. Typical warmish sound but in a new context regarding main theme and sonic concepts inherited from TCH era. Definitely less emotional than absolutely great TCH, really cold in places. Content as always a bit obscure but it gradually became more familiar to me, enough to find something of my own out there, and remains my favourite.
Considering any kind of synaesthetic associations, it gave me the best visual experiences to date I think. Typical warmish sound but in a new context regarding main theme and sonic concepts inherited from TCH era. Definitely less emotional than absolutely great TCH, really cold in places. Content as always a bit obscure but it gradually became more familiar to me, enough to find something of my own out there, and remains my favourite.
When I first listened to this album it felt like the black sheep of BoC's discography (along with Trans-Canada Highway to a lesser extent). The soundtrack-like, modernised sound along with an 8 year gap made the album feel alien - like Boards of Canada in an alternative universe. After three or four listens I dropped it for a while, feeling a little underwhelmed.
Seeing people's thoughts and analyses of the album online showed me that a lot of people felt the same way, but also that a lot of people really appreciated the new sound and got it in a way I didn't seem to have connected with. I revisited the album, paying more attention to it and became accustomed to the different format and style. The atmosphere and strangely undefined theme stood out more than it had previously.
I now see this is a new paradigm of BoC, or at least an alternative one. After this realisation, both sub-consciously and consciously, I began to really to enjoy the album despite, in my opinion, a lack of stand-out tracks or even tracks that are worth playing individually. The album as a whole evokes very strong images of a cold future, a ghost of humanity, rather than the traditional looking glass to the past which BoC have always created. As an album I think it's fantastic (gave it an 8/10) and deserving to be one of BoC's four studio albums. When it comes to individual tracks I find that Nothing is Real, New Seeds, Come to Dust and Reach for the Dead can stand alone just as Pete does. I guess they have more in common with previous BoC than the rest of the album while I feel the rest belongs together.
Seeing people's thoughts and analyses of the album online showed me that a lot of people felt the same way, but also that a lot of people really appreciated the new sound and got it in a way I didn't seem to have connected with. I revisited the album, paying more attention to it and became accustomed to the different format and style. The atmosphere and strangely undefined theme stood out more than it had previously.
I now see this is a new paradigm of BoC, or at least an alternative one. After this realisation, both sub-consciously and consciously, I began to really to enjoy the album despite, in my opinion, a lack of stand-out tracks or even tracks that are worth playing individually. The album as a whole evokes very strong images of a cold future, a ghost of humanity, rather than the traditional looking glass to the past which BoC have always created. As an album I think it's fantastic (gave it an 8/10) and deserving to be one of BoC's four studio albums. When it comes to individual tracks I find that Nothing is Real, New Seeds, Come to Dust and Reach for the Dead can stand alone just as Pete does. I guess they have more in common with previous BoC than the rest of the album while I feel the rest belongs together.
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All I know is I can't get enough of "come to dust". Wicked tune. The layering of a wave crashing within the snare and the kazoo (at least I think that's what they used, no expert) coming in with the synth melodies takes me away every time I hear it. I absolutely love this tune! This whole album is extremely layered and textured in such a way, that sometimes it freaks me out! I think Mike and Marcus are brilliant musicians! They know how to let tunes evolve and are extremely detailed. That's my thoughts on this album;-)
Much love and respect twoism fam!
Shane Anthony
Much love and respect twoism fam!
Shane Anthony
