GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC PART II

[babylulu]

Amused by the rumo(u)r they're playing at Glastonbury, albeit under a different name. Glasto is 25th to 29th June, so that's a week or two after the Barbican thing. Mini-tour? Naw; that would be off-brand.

rumor according to whom?

[Negamuse]

Yes but why now? They could have done this 5, 9, 7, 8 years ago.

This is based on nothing but me throwing speculation around and may be factually inaccurate in several ways

- Cosecha website is created for the TH campaign by Warp marketing
- TH releases, Boards begin work on new material / old releases
- Warp slowly lose relevance as a creative force over a number of years
- Boards become disgruntled with the label or get a heads up that the deal is coming up
- Boards delay releases until it's all gone through, because maybe some rights return to them per the contract / they don't want to release any more material under the current label regime
- Deal begins to happen
- Release comes off the back burner, website gets updated by Boards as a more tangible thing

Like I said all speculation, probably wrong in several ways but there's lots of reasons stuff could happen at any time based on business or creative stuff we can't see.

[Frindia]

This is based on nothing but me throwing speculation around and may be factually inaccurate in several ways

- Cosecha website is created for the TH campaign by Warp marketing
- TH releases, Boards begin work on new material / old releases
- Warp slowly lose relevance as a creative force over a number of years
- Boards become disgruntled with the label or get a heads up that the deal is coming up
- Boards delay releases until it's all gone through, because maybe some rights return to them per the contract / they don't want to release any more material under the current label regime
- Deal begins to happen
- Release comes off the back burner, website gets updated by Boards as a more tangible thing

Like I said all speculation, probably wrong in several ways but there's lots of reasons stuff could happen at any time based on business or creative stuff we can't see.

This response actually brings me joy

[outhudd]

Is there a chance that the 'nobody home' page wasn't put in place by a human and is something auto-generated?

No, not with the morse code after it.

[Serpia]

Probably no one home as they’re heading out to tour…

they're off to the pub actually

[girlfrequencies]

Soon we’ll be in our ritual sacrifice era of waiting, who knows maybe this fandom turning into a fullblown cult will give us LP5 and even LP6

[Ottomatik]

sorry. My bad. That's the mod forum, I was too quick.

MDG told us the NCD website has no relevance to BoC whatsoever.

So you guys have a mods forum where MDG posts stuff? And you're not even sharing? Is that why you think "nobody home" isn't related to LP5?...

I still wonder what this New Clear Dawn stuff is about. IIRC the DNS domain was registered with Hexagon Sun at some point, so while it might not be related to BoC, I wonder why would they pay to keep this website online for all these years.

[girlfrequencies]

sorry. My bad. That's the mod forum, I was too quick.

MDG told us the NCD website has no relevance to BoC whatsoever.

So you guys have a mods forum where MDG posts stuff? And you're not even sharing? Is that why you think "nobody home" isn't related to LP5?...

I still wonder what this New Clear Dawn stuff is about. IIRC the DNS domain was registered with Hexagon Sun at some point, so while it might not be related to BoC, I wonder why would they pay to keep this website online for all these years.

Oh wait we have new info, or more so elaboration from MDG? I see. What else is tucked away in that forum from Mr. Emmdeegee? Maybe Fredde’s NDA theory is a bit more concrete than I thought

[Fredd-E]

Yes, there's a mod forum, not that uncommon. The newcleardawn website is just not related to the Boards of Canada project. It is a cool URL in any case, and that could be the reason that whoever registered it keeps it in their possession. If they don't, squatters will no doubt snatch it up.

I am a proponent of Occam's razor principle and thus regarding the “Nobody home...” change I think it simply means that this site no longer serves for what it once served in 2013. At most, it could herald the end of an era and perhaps in that way indirectly open the gate for a new album later this year (hopefully). There could also be a subtle nod to more dedicated fans, see for yourself:

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 /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-
----- / ------ / ------ / XXXXXX / ------ / ------

This gives me two insights:

• What was here prior to this message is over now: nobody home
• Morse code is kinda visually similar to what once was the theme in 2013

I for one am still convinced that we are going to get a new album and that mainly based on, among other things, the recent 36 likes on Instagram where they focused on confirmation of new music. This I think is a much better and more concrete reason to believe new music is coming.

https://bocpages.org/wiki/LP5
https://bocpages.org/wiki/BoCset

[Fredd-E]

- Warp slowly lose relevance as a creative force over a number of years
- Boards become disgruntled with the label or get a heads up that the deal is coming up
- Boards delay releases until it's all gone through, because maybe some rights return to them per the contract / they don't want to release any more material under the current label regime
- Deal begins to happen

No doubt the IMPEL acquisition could've some (major) impact on the above. At the very least, such business processes often cause the potential delays. Let's hope they ironed out the devil in the details.

[Alvin]

This ARG is hard.

[murmur maris]

cosecha website has been clearly abandoned.... so now we need to look elsewhere....

[Davism]

If perhaps it does mean that the site is “unmanned”, it’s probably to point out to us that there is another site or location that will play a similar role.

Fred’s right, the 36 likes in conjunction to the site change is very encouraging.

[babylulu]

perhaps there should also be scripts running for other BoC sites?

like
hellinterface.com
music70.com
mikesandison.com

[The Dookster]

The most bizarre part about the cosecha site is that the message on it is literally the only content on the website. There isn’t even any HTML on the page at all, meaning that someone definitely had to go out of their way to make it the way that it is. Even trying to save the page on my web browser is odd because it tried to save it as an MS-DOS COM file. In other words, my browser confused the page as being a file rather than a weblink. It would be one thing if the “Nobody home…” message was there on its own, but having a duplicate of it written in Morse code seems out of place if it’s something only meant to be taken at face value. Maybe I’m reading too much into it but I kinda have a feeling that it has more significance.

[WATER_CAN-_-]

The most bizarre part about the cosecha site is that the message on it is literally the only content on the website. There isn’t even any HTML on the page at all, meaning that someone definitely had to go out of their way to make it the way that it is. Even trying to save the page on my web browser is odd because it tried to save it as an MS-DOS COM file. In other words, my browser confused the page as being a file rather than a weblink. It would be one thing if the “Nobody home…” message was there on its own, but having a duplicate of it written in Morse code seems out of place if it’s something only meant to be taken at face value. Maybe I’m reading too much into it but I kinda have a feeling that it has more significance.

Yeah, I would argue nearly all of BoC's art has meaning they are trying to convey

[dolochov]

Did they remove their Follows on IG?

[Davism]

No.

They don't follow anyone however.

[Skyraider]

In all my years following the band, this gives me a vague sense of hope that the brothers will grace us with their presence soon. Hoping for hope from the brothers...away from the chatter or the modern world exists a beautiful place.

Have you looked Out in the Country?

[Skyraider]

The message could easily be perceived as nothing is coming.

Only if people choose to ignore all previous hints of new music, then yes. The context of the bigger picture is important.

I’m following along. Their social media likes haven't done anything for me. I see MDG as credible, but… slow. Them saying three years ago that an album is on the way makes me shrug. It would be nice if they had more of a presence here, weird that this was in the DMs.

It shouldn’t be written off so easily that the message “nobody home…” could mean just that.

Sure, it COULD, but. . . Someone went to the trouble to prepare and publish a change to a website that has sat untouched for a decade in order to inform BoC’s fanbase that their longstanding hopes for a new release are in vain, and instead of a clear unambiguous statement (which would have required zero additional effort) they posted a vague message subject to all sorts of interpretation?

Doesn’t make sense to me.