GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC PART II

[Cyclosa]

Agreed. Advocating those likes are pointers to a new album, and handed out by BOC themselves, is just so silly.
Even admins go above and beyond to claim it's them, solely based on their own wishful thinking. It's giving cult vibes.

[Fredd-E]

But why the sudden need to communicate with fans after about 30 years of not doing so at all? Why the change?

Sudden need? Sudden change? Hexagon Sun has been communicating with us since over two decades.
https://bocpages.org/wiki/Statements_from_Hexagon_Sun

We've always seen BoC communication (in)directly over the years. At their own pace. In their own style.

[Fredd-E]

The Instagram likes are so boring and low effort. Literally one click. I’m glad to see some push against it. I yearn for the days of a black square

Remember this? Little over a year before TH was released we had this event.
It is not uncommon for BoC to announce they work on new music via their social media.
Even back in 2012!

Sorry, folks: There is no new Boards of Canada album imminent. A representative for Warp Records says, "They are definitely working on new material, but there is nothing in the cards at the moment in terms of a scheduled release." They seem to know as much as the rest of us do.

The recent flurry of activity was ignited on Monday when a fan posted on the Boards of Canada Facebook page, asking "Rumors of a new BOC album are rife? Any truth in this?" and Boards of Canada responded, "Yes." And that was all.

https://pitchfork.com/news/45754-dont-g ... everybody/

History repeats itself.

[Fredd-E]

Agreed. Advocating those likes are pointers to a new album, and handed out by BOC themselves, is just so silly.
Even admins go above and beyond to claim it's them, solely based on their own wishful thinking. It's giving cult vibes.

See my post above about the March 2012 social media pointer to a new album. History repeats itself.

BTW:
- There is only one admin: Aesthetics. He didn't voice his opinion on the matter.
- There is only one moderator: 2020k. He seems to side with you guys, the naysayers.

I am the only semi-moderator who says that I think they, amongst others, manage their social accounts. Am I only basing my opinion on wishful thinking? I thought you were against such loose assumptions?

[luminousdusk]

Perhaps MDG is running the insta

[luminousdusk]

But why the sudden need to communicate with fans after about 30 years of not doing so at all? Why the change?

Sudden need? Sudden change? Hexagon Sun has been communicating with us since over two decades.
https://bocpages.org/wiki/Statements_from_Hexagon_Sun

We've always seen BoC communication (in)directly over the years. At their own pace. In their own style.

Hexagon sun yes but the brothers themselves? Bit of a deflection there, going from talking about the brothers themselves to hexagon sun in general.

We are specifically talking about the boards of Canada Instagram here

[luminousdusk]

It's giving cult vibes.

I couldn't agree more. We must listen to the leader. Every day the world will end.. But never does

There is zero evidence the brothers are running that insta

[Fredd-E]

Hexagon sun yes but the brothers themselves? Bit of a deflection there, going from talking about the brothers themselves to hexagon sun in general.

We are specifically talking about the boards of Canada Instagram here

HS / HSO / MDG

From one source all (in)direct things depend.

[Fredd-E]

It's giving cult vibes.

There is zero evidence the brothers are running that insta

Have you ever considered it's operated by multiple people? BoC amongst others?

- The occasional like: Mike and/or Marcus
- When one of their beloved artists passes (Bowie): a post on Twitter by Mike and/or Marcus
- Checking account settings: MDG
- Uploading a fan video every 6 months: Mike
- Replying with a witty emoji comment every 3 years: Marcus
- Publishing the Twoism 30 video on several accounts and engaging a lot more: Warp intern + Mike

[Davism]

It's giving cult vibes.

There is zero evidence the brothers are running that insta

Have you ever considered it's operated by multiple people? BoC amongst others?

- The occasional like: Mike and/or Marcus
- When one of their beloved artists passes (Bowie): a post on Twitter by Mike and/or Marcus
- Checking account settings: MDG
- Uploading a fan video every 6 months: Mike
- Replying with a witty emoji comment every 3 years: Marcus
- Publishing the Twoism 30 video on several accounts and engaging a lot more: Warp intern + Mike

This 100%.

[Cyclosa]

Agreed. Advocating those likes are pointers to a new album, and handed out by BOC themselves, is just so silly.
Even admins go above and beyond to claim it's them, solely based on their own wishful thinking. It's giving cult vibes.

See my post above about the March 2012 social media pointer to a new album. History repeats itself.

BTW:
- There is only one admin: Aesthetics. He didn't voice his opinion on the matter.
- There is only one moderator: 2020k. He seems to side with you guys, the naysayers.

I am the only semi-moderator who says that I think they, amongst others, manage their social accounts. Am I only basing my opinion on wishful thinking? I thought you were against such loose assumptions?

I really couldn't be bothered to look up who's who here exactly on Twoism, but thanks for the info i guess?
My point was, mods downplaying any healthy skepticism as soon as it's posted by repeating the same old trite theories is not a good look, take that as you will.

[Fredd-E]

I really couldn't be bothered to look up who's who here exactly on Twoism, but thanks for the info i guess?
My point was, mods downplaying any healthy skepticism as soon as it's posted by repeating the same old trite theories is not a good look, take that as you will.

If you're gonna make assumptions about the mods, what you clearly do, you better know who and what you're talking about. But like you said, you can't be bothered. Perhaps that's an even worse look.

[Cyclosa]

C'mon Fredd, try to focus on the positive; errorcodes and instagram likes!

[hexagonFox]

[Moz]

Likes are deliberate and whoever is in charge of the account (which I think it is them, for the most part) is reading all the comments. If it was a warp intern I am sure the activity would look way different/more frequent because it would be pure business. They don't like weird comments or ones mentioning "this year" or anything specific. New album is promised, they keep confirming with likes. What else do you want? A personal mail pigeon? No activity - they dead. Social media activity - not them.

[Helios]

Super confused why anyone wouldn't think the likes are official confirmation. They're official accounts. It doesn't matter who literally is clicking the buttons, they're representative of BoC.

My only issue is *when*. Unless I missed likes for comments specifically mentioning "soon", could be another year, two, or three from now. I'm strangely more patient than ever.

Oh, well.

[ColinWallis]

Super confused why anyone wouldn't think the likes are official confirmation. They're official accounts. It doesn't matter who literally is clicking the buttons, they're representative of BoC.

Nailed it.

[♄ope keeper]

Maybe something like this would help (April 2013)...

Through the years I've been in contact with MDG and he always tried his best to help us out to debunk rumors or provide us with inside information. Although I was convinced that he was the person he claimed to be, some members of the community weren't at all.
To debunk this for once and for all I requested some sort of proof in the form of an album announcement scoop. I (and Fredd-E for the bocpages) suggested a piece of artwork or a song title days in advance before an official album announcement. MDG told us that he would discuss this with the boys and do whatever he can to make this possible. I was prepared to blow the doubters away once there was something worth mentioning but never did I expect to be included in this mysterious trip like it did!!

I really would like to thank the people at Warp, Boards of Canada and of course mdg for making this possible! They managed to get a whole fan-base glued to the internet in order to solve this mystery. I will never forget this experience.

[Chodlington]

Maybe something like this would help (April 2013)...

It really would, but instead we’ve got some error codes on an old website, and some Instagram likes by who knows.

The TH campaign and build up was genuinely groundbreaking, I just don’t believe they’d follow that with something as uninspired as this.

[steeldancer-x]

LOL