GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC PART II

[drixlin]

Has anyone noticed the colour palettes for the posters are similar to BOC's discography? 3 of the the 4 posters have a corresponding album colour theme. I'm sure it's nothing, but I thought it was kinda cool. The only thing is Tomorrow's Harvest wasn't a reddish palette, so it really only works with 3 out of the 4 albums.

[Curosy]

Society is in a cult, we just don't see it because we're in it.

That’s not an answer. Plus it’s a completely obvious statement. What I’m asking is what is BoCs modus operandi?

Well obviously we wont exactly know their modus operandi until more info comes out. until then we will just have to speculate, so i think every answer is valid.

[dana]

Society is in a cult, we just don't see it because we're in it.

That’s not an answer. Plus it’s a completely obvious statement. What I’m asking is what is BoCs modus operandi?

Sorry, thats not within my purview.

[WATER_CAN-_-]

Why do you think they’re still referencing cults?

- because they believe they’re responsible for one?
- they were in one?
- they believe you’re in one?
- they believe a big one is coming?
- want to wake you up from one?

What is it?

there's no need to guess really

The In a Beautiful Place Out in the country EP features both an image of David Koresh and a reference to him in the lyrics. Geogaddi was sequenced to play at 66 minutes and 6 seconds, you have a song titled "The Devil is in the Details" and at the All Tomorrow Parties music festival, your films featured clips of people losing themselves in euphoric religious abandon. What gives with the cultish phenomena?

E: We're interested in all kinds of subjects, and I suppose we went through a patch of looking at cults and the mass mind control of religion and so on. We read a lot and pay attention to cultural events, but we view everything from a distance. We're up here in our observation point, gathering up data about all the weird shit that's happening in the world and spewing it out in some way in our music and visuals. The Davidians thing was about the shock of seeing the way the U.S. authorities handled it all.

[BodyOfChrist]

I wasn’t meaning to be rude when I said it was obvious. I guess most people are not concerned that western society seems to have become little more than a 24 hour interactive restaurant.

I think tomorrow’s harvest may have touch on the universal cult nature of our society. But why now back to outsider cults? Do they believe they’ve got it right? Or that they should have the right to be outsiders and practice what they deem fit? Even if the rest of society find it disturbing or harmful?

[Altruizine]

They may have put the cult imagery in just to rub it in that it's BoC without actually spelling it out. "VHS... hexagons... cults... satellite dishes... ok definitely Boards of Canada"

VHS + hexagons + Bleep address already drive the point home though, could've been anything on that tape from there on out to trigger fan frenzy. I still wouldn't trust that this is a definite indication of the themes

[dana]

The video was about Bhagwan Rajneesh, other known as OSHO, there is an official youtube full of his videos - some interesting ideas but the truth is under the surface its a cult - still to this day, they give you a new name, have certain things that they still do all of those, i know this because i went to one of their retreats in Fife, Scotland along time ago.

It was interesting, but i can see how people can get sucked into the "love everyone" way of thinking, which turns off all your defences and makes you subservient to them.

They use it as fuel for their music because they find it interesting.

Is that a good enough answer now?

[bingo wings]

The video was about Bhagwan Rajneesh, other known as OSHO, there is an official youtube full of his videos - some interesting ideas but the truth is under the surface its a cult - still to this day, they give you a new name, have certain things that they still do all of those, i know this because i went to one of their retreats in Fife, Scotland along time ago.

It was interesting, but i can see how people can get sucked into the "love everyone" way of thinking, which turns off all your defences and makes you subservient to them.

They use it as fuel for their music because they find it interesting.

Is that a good enough answer now?

Very interesting answer I’d say dana. I’ve watched a documentary about that cult. I had no idea there was a retreat here in Scotland.

[tumblingdown]

Found a guy who resembles one of the men with sunglasses in the film Fear is the Master from Jeremiah Films:



Here he appears in some the film numerous times but the one that is close is around 58:07

https://jeremiahfilms.com/fear-is-the-master/

https://archive.org/search?query=jeremiah+Films

Shit that’s about the Rajneeshees, which I always felt was something BoC would find interesting. Strange new age-y cult out in rural Oregon. Strange slightly terroristic plots. Definitely relevant to the sort of stuff they’d tackle as thematic overtones.

[Gertfrobisher]

The vhs does seem just like (excellent) marketing fluff. Don’t be that disappointed if the themes of the album aren’t that deep. What else is there to say thematically relating to the zeitgeist after their last 4 LPs, especially after the bleakness, nihilism and ‘finality’ of TH which in itself suggested rebirth of civilisation.

[tumblingdown]

The video was about Bhagwan Rajneesh, other known as OSHO, there is an official youtube full of his videos - some interesting ideas but the truth is under the surface its a cult - still to this day, they give you a new name, have certain things that they still do all of those, i know this because i went to one of their retreats in Fife, Scotland along time ago.

It was interesting, but i can see how people can get sucked into the "love everyone" way of thinking, which turns off all your defences and makes you subservient to them.

They use it as fuel for their music because they find it interesting.

Is that a good enough answer now?

There’s an excellent doc on Netflix called Wild, Wild Country about Rajneeshpuram as well. Would highly highly recommend it. I think the venn diagram of people who would enjoy that doc and BoC fans is a circle lol.

[Gertfrobisher]

It’s a cracking watch. That and Holy Hell too.

The video was about Bhagwan Rajneesh, other known as OSHO, there is an official youtube full of his videos - some interesting ideas but the truth is under the surface its a cult - still to this day, they give you a new name, have certain things that they still do all of those, i know this because i went to one of their retreats in Fife, Scotland along time ago.

It was interesting, but i can see how people can get sucked into the "love everyone" way of thinking, which turns off all your defences and makes you subservient to them.

They use it as fuel for their music because they find it interesting.

Is that a good enough answer now?

There’s an excellent doc on Netflix called Wild, Wild Country about Rajneeshpuram as well. Would highly highly recommend it. I think the venn diagram of people who would enjoy that doc and BoC fans is a circle lol.

[Altruizine]

OMG the posters are placed opposite a cozy artisan bakery? That's incredible. I think somebody got cheeky on purpose

[iamthenight]

More posters found in soho…


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[Curosy]

are there photos of them?

[Logan71]

are there photos of them?

[IronMark]

The locations of the posters, the first just off Wardour Street which has always been a big hub for live and recorded music and the second posters being relatively closeby, near a record shop, surely has to mean something.

Also with the VHS rollout, Warp will be monitoring everything and if these posters are a hoax, someone has gone to ridiculous effort and Warp would have stepped in by now. I think we're beyond 95% likelihood that these posters are from an official source.

[jcnporter]

They're in the same order, aren't they, got to be something to that.

[Electronaldmcdonald2]

I think BoC’s obsession with cults is more about the myth of utopia. Cult leaders always push this notion of a utopia of religious bliss that is just out of reach. But they always turn out to be about an abuse of power.
The latest VHS has images of a televangelist couple who were hugely popular before they were found guilty of business fraud. Its that same theme

[BodyOfChrist]

The myth of Utopia. Sure, it never really exists. But at the same time someone has to have the balls to throw the spanner in the works in order to disrupt the interactive restaurant world dustbin that we’re living in.

These leaders don’t rise without the help of people who have some very real power behind them. It’s made to look all circumstantial and happen chance, but they know exactly what direction to take the world in. There’s no end of supply of wannabes to front the show too.