SamuraiDrifter wrote:In considering their history overall, the 7 years between Trans Canada Highway and Tomorrow's Harvest was actually unusually long. We had 2 years between MHRTC and IABPOITC, then 1.5 more before Geogaddi, then 3 years between Geogaddi and Campfire, then 1 between Campfire and Trans Canada.
All I'm sayin' is, it's about time... I hope.
I've been thinking about this and the gap between TCH and TH actually makes a lot of sense when you consider that TH was 17 almost entirely new tracks that clocked in at an hour. The reason I say almost entirely is that BoC said in one interview that one song on TH was a really old one. Granted they didn't say only one song, but based on the only slight similarity to another song being Cold Earth & that one ATP track I'd wager most of the tracks on TH are post-2010ish.
The other albums having smaller gaps could be explained by the reuse of material. Most of MHtRtC has showed up on BOC Maxima and even Old Tunes, so that dates its creation as far back as 1996 for sure. Combined with the fact that it was their first full-length release and that they seemed to be briefly exploring a techno side in 1998/1999 with the last Warp track and XYZ and I'd guess that ideas for Geogaddi were in process as early as 1999. When they released IaBPoitC, interviews from that period showed that they already had the concept of Geogaddi in mind. Plus there's a lot of older material on Geogaddi like The Smallest Weird Number and Flute Frum Thing. 1969 and Julie and Candy were either done or almost done by the end of 2000 due to the Lighthouse performance, and Sunshine Recorder was more or less finished in 2001 from ATP. In an interview from the Geogaddi period one of the brothers said, "We could release a whole album of Roygbiv-like songs now," which I take to refer to The Campfire Headphase. So if that album was done or almost done by 2002, that left them with plenty of time to get Trans Canada Highway ready before 2006 since it only has 4 "new" tracks, one of which isn't new because it appears on R35TT (heard from Telegraph lines == A13 for those who don't know). So that really leaves a ton of time for BoC to come up with Tomorrow's Harvest, and as mentioned earlier, that one seems to be mostly new material.
Unfortunately BoC haven't talked about what they're up to in current interviews (TH period current at least) so I don't have any interview-based predictions about what's going to happen. All the Twitter/YouTube activity certainly seems promising though, especially posting Buckle High on Twitter and subtly letting us know it was written in 1994. I hesitate to make this prediction for the millionth time but maybe we're finally getting some old tunes...
