02. Reach For The Dead (4:47)

rainier · Post by **rainier** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:56 am

Nah it's definitely mylar reflecting light. This song got lost for awhile in the novelty of having songs that were new to me, but I'm back into it full force. Love the tape hiss in this song.

MindElevation · Post by **MindElevation** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:15 pm

Anyone else find themselves barely ever listening to Reach For The Dead?

I don't know why. It's actually one of my favourite tracks on the album. Maybe I rinsed it too much in the build up to the album release. I just seem to ignore it unless I'm having a full album play-through.

paul · Post by **paul** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:43 pm

MindElevation wrote:Anyone else find themselves barely ever listening to Reach For The Dead?

I don't know why. It's actually one of my favourite tracks on the album. Maybe I rinsed it too much in the build up to the album release. I just seem to ignore it unless I'm having a full album play-through.

funny you say that but its one of my favorite tracks on the album and just plain overall. its a very powerful song for me and i usually need a few minutes to come down off it after a listen, so i save it for when i have that time after the fact. guess that sounds weird but its how i feel about RFTD.

seanandcandy · Post by **seanandcandy** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:52 am

paul wrote:
MindElevation wrote:Anyone else find themselves barely ever listening to Reach For The Dead?

I don't know why. It's actually one of my favourite tracks on the album. Maybe I rinsed it too much in the build up to the album release. I just seem to ignore it unless I'm having a full album play-through.
funny you say that but its one of my favorite tracks on the album and just plain overall. its a very powerful song for me and i usually need a few minutes to come down off it after a listen, so i save it for when i have that time after the fact. guess that sounds weird but its how i feel about RFTD.

absolutely, sometimes when i go back and listen to TH i'll even skip it (and i dont even know why) and then i'll hear it sometime later and be like..... yeah this is a good track probably the best idk

Kamas009 · Post by **Kamas009** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:32 pm

seanandcandy wrote:
paul wrote:
MindElevation wrote:Anyone else find themselves barely ever listening to Reach For The Dead?

I don't know why. It's actually one of my favourite tracks on the album. Maybe I rinsed it too much in the build up to the album release. I just seem to ignore it unless I'm having a full album play-through.
funny you say that but its one of my favorite tracks on the album and just plain overall. its a very powerful song for me and i usually need a few minutes to come down off it after a listen, so i save it for when i have that time after the fact. guess that sounds weird but its how i feel about RFTD.
absolutely, sometimes when i go back and listen to TH i'll even skip it (and i dont even know why) and then i'll hear it sometime later and be like..... yeah this is a good track probably the best idk

I'm slightly scared now because this is exactly what I do.

sleepysilverdoor · Post by **sleepysilverdoor** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:43 am

I was listening to this track in the car this morning and noticed something that I wanted to get Twoism's opinion on.

Is it just me, or is that "tape hiss" percussion element actually a recording of a hissing fire run through a shifting EQ curve?

Negamuse · Post by **Negamuse** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:43 pm

Hmm maybe. It's too quiet in the mix to really hear. To me it sounds like the last audible sound on a fading out song, you know? When you crank the volume right up to try and hear it down to the end and it loses all sense of what it originally was. Edit: and then you have to quickly put the volume back down to avoid blowing your ears out when the next track starts, hehe

mc10101 · Post by **mc10101** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:05 pm

That memory association thing brings back all the intrigue, excitement, and strange anticipation of the run up to the release of Tomorrows Harvest whenever I hear this. And the gorgeous vid too

NorthcutTAmnestY · Post by **NorthcutTAmnestY** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 4:27 am

Definitely a grower.

First time I heard it I liked it, but I was kinda mixed on it as well. Then it just kept growing and growing and growing. It's a very good track.

Radio Kadugli · Post by **Radio Kadugli** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 7:13 pm

This may have been pointed out before, and it's keeping in vein with a couple of other bits on TH that are almost note-for-note quotes of older tracks by Mark Isham and some other composers. I was listening to Popol Vuh today, and this track immediately smacked of RFTD to me.

I know they mentioned Krautrock a couple times during TH interviews, so an influence isn't totally irrational. Anyone else hearing similarities or am I alone on this one? Either way, it's a great track... all twenty minutes of it.

ryan · Post by **ryan** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 4:53 pm

If anyone is interested, I made a kaleidoscopic version of the RFTD music video, which you can find here:

jbond007 · Post by **jbond007** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:49 am

This is my go to song. Once i listen to the album i'd often give Jacquard Causeway and Reach another spin straight away, kind of like a craving to hear it before i do anything else.

arguably creates the strongest atmosphere and sound-scape on the album, as well as a sense of emotion resembling love and sadness, accompanied by a bad ass sinister feel.

Best BoC no2 track ever? I love Campfire, and Dreamcoat, but this track is lush and full of BoC energy... the first second of sound melts me, and i feel immersed by its energy from start to finish.

I listened to An Eagle in your Mind recently and as much as i love that track i think this is an absolute gem.

Basefree · Post by **Basefree** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:52 pm

Every time I listen to this I'm taken back to that crappy Japan stream and the shivers I got when the melody started playing. That was almost a religious moment for me after their years of silence, even though I'm definitely not the most hardcore fan out there. I felt that they're really coming back with style.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:27 pm

Basefree wrote:I felt that they're really coming back in style.

What, like a pair of Wayfarer Sunglasses?

thepastinsidepressant · Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:53 pm

it's quite an emotive track alright, friends i've played it to were taken back by it and they're not fans of their work and some never even heard of them before. one could easily say it doesnt sit too well in the album, especially so soon yet theres 3-4 others that dont sit well either. it could have gone either way, a full album of drones and beatless synth scapes or a few of these thrown in, i.e Come to Dust, Cold Earth, Palace Posy, New Seeds etc in comparison to Sundown, Semena etc.

the visuals from the beginning of the video with the desert sand blowing up fits so well with that tape hiss.

Basefree · Post by **Basefree** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:55 pm

polar sky wrote:
Basefree wrote:I felt that they're really coming back in style.
What, like a pair of Wayfarer Sunglasses?

Alright lesson learned.

Something new every day you know.

lukalukaluka · Post by **lukalukaluka** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:22 am

I've found this one has really stood out for me in the past few weeks and come back into its own.

seanandcandy · Post by **seanandcandy** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:30 am

polar sky wrote:
Basefree wrote:I felt that they're really coming back in style.
What, like a pair of Wayfarer Sunglasses?

word

paul · Post by **paul** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:11 pm

driving down the highway yesterday - with my wife and dog in the truck ... and for some odd reason i let it play through. i usually save this track as its super powerful and i almost never play TH with others in case someone makes the awful mistake of trying to speak over the music. at the end she says - "Can you play that one again? Its my favorite ... its so positive, so hopeful." i smiled and thought "so glad i married her." however, my take is a little different - its one of the few songs that makes the hair on my neck stand out while ripping my heart out - but who doesn't love that? so i happily pressed repeat.

getting ahead of myself but if there were to be any remixes - i would give this one the nod. even just a slightly longer version. its such a massive sound and then its gone all at once. just 16 more measures of those lush scales with that beautifully intricate percussion ... it all ends too soon! conversely, thats why it is absolute perfection - leaves you wanting more.

North by North · Post by **North by North** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:00 pm

paul wrote:driving down the highway yesterday - with my wife and dog in the truck ... and for some odd reason i let it play through. i usually save this track as its super powerful and i almost never play TH with others in case someone makes the awful mistake of trying to speak over the music. at the end she says - "Can you play that one again? Its my favorite ... its so positive, so hopeful." i smiled and thought "so glad i married her." however, my take is a little different - its one of the few songs that makes the hair on my neck stand out while ripping my heart out - but who doesn't love that? so i happily pressed repeat.

getting ahead of myself but if there were to be any remixes - i would give this one the nod. even just a slightly longer version. its such a massive sound and then its gone all at once. just 16 more measures of those lush scales with that beautifully intricate percussion ... it all ends too soon! conversely, thats why it is absolute perfection - leaves you wanting more.

My fiance's favorite is Palace Posy. I remember smiling and thinking "I'm so glad I asked her to marry me" when she said, "I really like that one. It's my favorite. It's different."

She likes everything she's heard me play from the album, which is also pretty

As for RFTD, yeah, I get a very serious vibe from it vs. positive/hopeful. Not saying I get a negative or sinister vibe, just a very intense, serious, listen up and pay attention kind of thing- like you said, a neck hair raiser. I like that she had a different perspective- the magic of the Boards and how they affect people individually is interesting and cool.