Tomorrow's Harvest

A_Northern_Soul · Post by **A_Northern_Soul** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:52 pm

So, 1st thoughts after 1st listen through today...

It's a very dense, heavy album - not something you just stick on in the background (which you could do with TCH - not a bad thing in itself; I believe that music works as part of a communal or social situation - TCH has happy memories for me; playing it a lot in the car on holiday in the highlands. I don't think I'll be able to do the same with TH). I think it will stand up well to repeat, close listening.

Sound wise it is INCREDIBLE - there's a lot of really deep bass. Love it.

It sounds like a distillation of everything they've done before - thematically I think it shares a lot of ground with MHTRTC, but much more mature. All those kids' voices have grown up. It also feels like Twoism's older brother.

I love the repetition & recurring motifs. I've listened to the album once but already feel like it is burrowing into my head.

The post-apocalyptic atmosphere & aesthetic works really well.

Stand out tracks so far are Gemini (all great albums need a great intro), Palace Posy & New Seeds.

It's going to be hard work, but will reward the effort I think.

PlacentaSand · Post by **PlacentaSand** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:30 pm

any word on those cards with the codes on them?

StarblazerUK · Post by **StarblazerUK** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:34 pm

A_Northern_Soul wrote:So, 1st thoughts after 1st listen through today...

It's a very dense, heavy album - not something you just stick on in the background

Funnily enough my clients disagree lol.
I've had it on repeat in my tattoo studio for a few days, so far everyone has asked who it is and said that it's really nice to listen to/get tattooed to

I can't complain and tbh, no-one has a choice lol, my studio my choice of music.

rubot · Post by **rubot** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:30 am

oh man, this album is getting better and better with every listen.

When I first listened I thought "This is a very good album" but its only dawning on me now how good it really is.

mc10101 · Post by **mc10101** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:34 am

rubot wrote:oh man, this album is getting better and better with every listen.

When I first listened I thought "This is a very good album" but its only dawning on me now how good it really is.

Twas my thinking exactly

This week will see a lot of premature amateur reviews.

Keeoaddi · Post by **Keeoaddi** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:42 am

Just listening to the vinyl for the first time, Reach for the Dead blew me away, even though it's the track i've heard the most, as it was available before everything else was.
It's really striking me how detailed every track is, the beats, the mixing, everything seems timed to perfection.

Only ever bought records second hand so this is my first brand new one, and i'm glad of it

mc10101 · Post by **mc10101** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:09 pm

Anyone else find that Windows Media Player can't retrieve any album info for the Tomorrow's Harvest cd?? Seems odd for an album released in 2013, after all even my cd copy of Hi-Scores pops up with track titles and artwork etc...

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:22 pm

^ WMP got my album deets just fine.

Twoist · Post by **Twoist** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:24 pm

mc10101 wrote:Anyone else find that Windows Media Player can't retrieve any album info for the Tomorrow's Harvest cd?? Seems odd for an album released in 2013, after all even my cd copy of Hi-Scores pops up with track titles and artwork etc...

That is odd. As far as I know, Allmusic provide CDDB to Windows Media Player, and Tomorrow's Harvest is definitely in their catalog.

mc10101 · Post by **mc10101** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:25 pm

Techboy wrote:^ WMP got my album deets just fine.

Really??! Weird...! As far as my WMP/computer is concerned it might as well be a cdr. . .?

davemac · Post by **davemac** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:26 pm

I'm loving this album. Does anyone else think it'll be a more suitable listen in Autumn?

MAXIMUS MISCHIEF · Post by **MAXIMUS MISCHIEF** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:52 pm

i went and listened to this album for the first time in real life when the sun was coming up this morning
this is the picture i took

miklatov · Post by **miklatov** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:13 pm

MAXIMUS MISCHIEF wrote:i went and listened to this album for the first time in real life when the sun was coming up this morning
this is the picture i took

That's awesome! What an ambience that must have been. Probably just me but those towers really remind me of the tripods from War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne artwork). Or am I just seeing apocalyptic imagery everywhere since listening to TH?

Hope you enjoyed your first listen

Amo Bishop Roden · Post by **Amo Bishop Roden** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:16 pm

davemac wrote:I'm loving this album. Does anyone else think it'll be a more suitable listen in Autumn?

Yeah, I agree. Feels a bit 'cold' for summertime, though it's certainly not a winter listen, either. Luckily it's been raining nonstop in New York so it's been a nice gloomy week for the release. Being from Ireland, I'm sure you can relate, haha.

davemac · Post by **davemac** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:37 pm

Being from Ireland, I'm sure you can relate, haha.

Surprisingly we're just off the back of a really really good week of weather, I mean proper sunburn weather! It rained yesterday though and I was walking around town listening to it and it actually felt more positive for some reason.

Maybe the whole 'post bad thing happening' has a major influence on how I listen to it. Like, while it's gloomy and raining, there is hope that it'll clear up and the world will be nicer thus making it an optimistic listen whereas if I listen to it while it's a lovely day, there's nothing more to really hope for (in an immediate meteorological kind of way), making it a very neutral listen.

Even though I absolutely adore this album already, I'm confident it'll go down better in Autumn when nature is changing, light is getting fewer and we look forward to the brightness of Spring.

F. · Post by F. » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:21 pm

http://www.thefader.com/2013/06/11/by-t ... arvest-lp/

harpoon dodger · Post by **harpoon dodger** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:39 pm

^^ this is awesome, and hilarious

krs · Post by **krs** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:46 pm

Ottomatik wrote:
F. wrote:
Ottomatik wrote:Where did you get that picture?
Took myself.
Warp invited you? Gosh I'm jealous now, I'd have loved to be there

It wasn't an official listening party. Arranged by fans.

Polaris · Post by **Polaris** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:58 pm

Is there a topic for discussing the whole concept and message behind this album (except the separate track's threads) ?

Anyway, something to share from me about this album:

I rejected the concept of a apocalypse as the main theme behind (especially the "nuclear war" themes many people mentioned) right on the begginig. IMHO the album can be perceived as nihilistic rather than apocalyptic - and this is what BoC said in the Guardian interview. But there is also a lot of sadness here - Geogaddi was dark, but not sad. I think something sad must have happened in Marcus and/or Michael lives and they expressed this in music. Or maybe the album is about growing up and ageing and changing the perception of surrounding world? The palindromic structure would be the key - even if we reach Collapse by either of two paths, we may have different perception along the way. BTW: I'm against the theory of changing the order of tracks and deconstructing the way we listen to it, it's rather like each track have the equivalent in "the other side of the mirror" track.

I'm also glad that I can experience something more than just a few new tracks on a CD and have more than this - decyphering cryptic transmissions before the release, and decyphering messages after release (backmasked voices and samples, anagrams, etc.). This is unique

, I haven't heard about any release like that so far.

F. · Post by F. » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:58 pm

krs wrote:It wasn't an official listening party. Arranged by fans.

Organized by Warp Fr and only for people working in the musical industry/press.