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Re: 17. You Retreat In Time And Space
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2026 12:09 am
by Josh
If it really marks the end of something, why isn't it the last track? People are getting very different vibes from this one than I am. Maybe it sounds like "classic BoC" because its origins are old?
Re: 17. You Retreat In Time And Space
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:39 pm
by Waterbagel
i mean, that drum track is vintage 90's era BoC for sure. that was the big "oh theyr'e doing some serious callbacks here!" for me
Re: 17. You Retreat In Time And Space
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:48 pm
by Redd Panderson
Not to mention that kind of vocal-sounding synth being a bit similar to the one in Everything You Do Is A Balloon (and the melody it plays, too, a little).
It might not technically be the last track, but I Saw Through Platonia reads like an outro more than like...a SONG per se. I think compositionally there's plenty of weight to considering You Retreat to be a closer, ending credits theme thing. Leave it to the times, perhaps, to have a post-credits scene in I Saw Through Platonia, and leave it to BOC to inject some delicious ambiguity into their work!
Re: 17. You Retreat In Time And Space
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2026 8:11 pm
by pepsichallenged
Does the first part of the track sound like a minor key/bummer version of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" to anyone else's ears?
Re: 17. You Retreat In Time And Space
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2026 7:46 am
by steeldancer-x
SALVATION IF IT WERE A SOUND!
Re: 17. You Retreat In Time And Space
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2026 11:41 pm
by mechanismj
pepsichallenged wrote:Does the first part of the track sound like a minor key/bummer version of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" to anyone else's ears?
It gives me U2's Where the Streets Have No Name intro vibes.
Re: 17. You Retreat In Time And Space
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2026 6:19 am
by Alvin
Have we died?!
We're drifting through heaven on golden clouds of pipe organ steam!
Hey there's God!
Say Hello!
"Hello God!"
After having been drenched in the blood of countless wars, we can finally see the light!
God plays a warm slow deliberate bassline and everyone nods their heads!
Half the song is just an intro, how decadent!
Yes!
It's so toasty and warm now!
Such a feel good embrace of a tune!
It's a sonic hug!
There's a magical glissando as a hand brushes a chime-tree, they've thought of everything!
A gnarly sawtooth synth threatens to derail the happiness of the vibe but luckily it was only a warning!
Everything is drippy, oozing with worm-like phasing through some kind of Mu-Tron-Moog-Roland hybrid!
Tantalizingly, this is like the Ultimate Campfire Headphase!
No-one wants to say goodbye to this perfect night but out it fades!
Too soon!