^ MP3 of Alternative Track Listing
Originally I tried to post this to Reddit, but they don't seem to want it -
The thread ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest Key Twin Secret’ on twoism.org shows the idea (not an unfamiliar idea to anyone on these forums) that the album has a pairs or ‘twins’ theme behind it e.g. Gemini (the twins constellation) and most importantly - what was mentioned by one of the brothers in an interview, the idea that ‘Come To Dust’ is a reprise of ‘Reach For The Dead’, and that ‘Collapse’ is a palindrome of itself (the same played forwards of backwards). They also say Gemini and Semena Mertvykh are linked, but I’m struggling to find the interview in which they mention how.
This being said, as confirmed by the brothers, it would appear tracks 01.Gemini and 17.Semena Mertvykh are ‘twinned’, as are 02.Reach For The Dead and 16.Come To Dust. Following this suit, treating track 9 as the ‘middle’, the opposing song is the twin track. AKA 3 and 15, 4 and 14, 5 and 13 etc. Track 9 remains unpaired and is significant because it is a palindrome of itself, it needs no pair because it is the same played forwards or backwards.
So,
Optic from twoism.org said:
‘At the end of the reach for the dead video, there are those two spheres that divide from the sun, while the original sphere looks like it's fading (dying?)…could it be that all of the twins are derived from the outliers (the "special" tracks) in form and/or structure? .’
Justin from twoism.org said:
‘You're on to something ... At 4:27 or 20 seconds till RFD ends the Lights divide in the video. If you press play for Come To Dust at the 4:27 mark of RFD both songs overlap and fade into each other perfectly and exactly at the end of RFD the drums should kick in for Come To Dust. This also holds the same for the other matching tracks. They are twins.’
This is an old thread, and I’ve had a root through and I can’t see that anyone has done it, so I’ve taken the liberty of arranging the alternate track listing and I’ve overlapped the tracks so they crossfade into each other (the real beauty of it). (link at top of post)
Now this is where things get a bit scatty -
I figured like with a lot of BOC’s secrets and codes, and any good puzzle, there should be definite rules. The problem with syncing these tracks is where to begin crossing over/ mixing into each other. So, as Optic and Justin mentioned, at 4:27 of the Reach For The Dead video, as the single sun parts into three, leaving the middle/ original sun to die and the two either side to shine bright, this is where I began playing Come To Dust, (and it syncs beautifully) this is exactly 20 seconds before the song ends. So, as my rule for crossing over the ‘twinned’ songs, I started playing the corresponding twin-song 20 seconds before the ‘first’ song ended. No one has spoken much of the Reach For The Dead video; maybe it’s been holding the key (the timing of the parting suns) to unlocking the biggest secret of the album?
For arguments sake, I decided to use the 20-second rule for the tracks that are not twinned, but would naturally follow if the twin rule applied, (e.g. Gemini and Semena Mertvykh are twinned, therefore Reach For the Dead and Come To Dust follow.)
The alternate track listing sits like this -
- 1. Gemini
2. Semena Mertvykh
3. Reach For The Dead
4. Come To Dust
5. White Cyclosa
6. New Seeds
7. Jacquard Causeway
8. Sundown
9. Telepath
10. Nothing Is Real
11. Cold Earth
12. Uritual
13. Transmisiones Ferox
14. Split Your Infinities
15. Sick Times
16. Palace Posy
17. Collapse
So, “did this all work out?” you’re probably thinking… Well, yes and no. Some of the songs sit together as if they were undoubtedly intended to be sewn together, but others, not so much. The best moments in the whole thing are -
* The first sweeping noise (2:40) at the end of Gemini runs into Semena’s first volume rise perfectly. Also, where Gemini ends abruptly when RFTD follows, there is an abrupt stop, whereas when it is synced with Semena the abrupt stop vanishes.
* Reach for the Dead and Come To Dust works beautifully, one simply leads into the other; where RFTD drops in volume CTD rises
* Telepath and Nothing Is Real works very well, the volume of NIR rises at the very end of Telepath.
However, some things that don’t work so well are -
* The rhythm of White Cyclosa sounds a bit messy when leading into New Seeds
* After Jacquard’s Causeway, the first note of Sundown creates dissonance. Though does sound like the whirring of an old tape?
* Cold Earth and Uritual doesn’t sound so great
* No real ‘connection’ with Transimsions ferox and Split your infinities
The songs I haven’t mentioned in either list work together, but aren’t as distinctive as those listed above.
I don’t believe in this 100%, but I think it’s certainly interesting. Though I feel if there was a big ‘master-plan’ behind this album it would be more definitive that this… no loose ends.
BOC have mentioned there are more secrets in Tomorrow’s Harvest than anything they’ve made before… We’re nowhere near done with the hidden codes of this album.
Any thoughts?
