01. / 02. Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz

[llydia]

I think at this point we can safely write the BOC Reddit off as sub-Watmm horse manure in digital form.

Good description. I’m glad to have no idea what “synthwave” is. Thinking of music in terms of genre is damaging.

I know what "New Wave" is. Synthwave? That was spawned out of 2013 80s revival. Youtube was full of it. Mislabeling vaporwave most of the time.

Synthwave is only made king by Mitch Murder. See example exhibit A)

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[North by North]

Aquarius vibes anyone?

[Den]

I think at this point we can safely write the BOC Reddit off as sub-Watmm horse manure in digital form.

Reddit be redditing. Giving me good giggles some of the stuff people write online. I hope next track sends them over the edge.

Lol. There is sixty five more minutes of absolute destruction on its way, thank God.

[Quiller]

There's definitely some 80's vibes in those guitars. In a good way.

[TaoTapeTao]

Not sure if anyone's mentioned these yet:

There is a higher octave synth that sounds like the same one used on EYDIAB, I think. It comes in around 2:30-3:30ish.

The guitar melody - I'd be interested in some music theory nerds because it echos Turquoise Hexagon Sun.

There is speech that is in the left channel from 0:04-0:16 or so. I can't make out what it's saying for the life of me.

The EYDIAB synth sound - I absolutely heard that too! I think it really is in there for that bit of the song. Glad I'm not the only one!

[Den]

Thank you for the clarification Illydia.

Aquarius vibes anyone?

I was hearing the progression on the Grace Kelly Aquarius Remix from Societas toward the end.

[North by North]

This shit is in yr face. Fantastic.

[writetomhatcher]

I’m hearing the An Eagle in Your Mind chord progression. It’s just been what’s been playing in my head this afternoon. No clue if it’s in the same key or even close, but something tells me they are very similar. I’ll look into it more this weekend!

[valleaux]

Hell yeah! I think I echo a lot of people's sentiments when I say that I was so pleasantly surprised that the track went in a new direction for the band, but was still unmistakably BOC.
The intro flute immediately made me think of the flute in Alpha and Omega. The outro final minute or so has the timeless BOC sound to me, though. There's definitely a synthwave/industrial lovechild thing going on. I agree with the comparison to Nine Inch Nails, and the kind of wandering bitcrushed synth bass at about 2:30 reminded me of the artist Com Truise. Especially this track around 1:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZqJbZI7Ok
I'm doing what other folks are doing--I listened to it twice and I don't think I will again until the full album drop!

[Corvix]

the beginning was comforting, so true to themselves,
then the guitar kicked in and I smiled
I turnt 34 yesterday and this is one hell of a gift.

Someone made the connection between the video artstyle and the 70s TV show Tomorrow People I think that's spot on :
"Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called 'breaking out' and develop special paranormal abilities."
In the artstyle we do have nuclear family + adolescence, we do have a rather paranormal child.


You guys also traced it to John Wiley compositions and artstyles and maaaan it feels like they made research,
just like in the Tape 05 and the whole Le Corbusier / Varège / Xennakis hommage.

the whole thing really feels like
they put so much work and thought into it

Thank you to the person that recommanded Locust's "You'll Be Safe Forever".

[el Cerebro]

THE ULTIMATE RESONANCE

[el Cerebro]

I feel insane right now holy smokes

[el Cerebro]

I just got off work and am so late to the party. The opening little classic jingle itself almost made me fucking sob like an infant, I need a drink

[mechanismj]

Just listened for the second time and I just now realised how the first track goes into the second one without any cuts, that makes sense considering the gapless WAV they're selling.

Yeah, I like the gapless concept. Kind of surprised they are only making an album like that now. Seems very them.

I mean, much of Geogaddi segues into itself, but yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if there are no hard stops here.

True. And the old vignettes did a great job of keeping the whole experience glued together.
Considering the track lengths on Inferno, I am curious to see how or if the vignettes play a part here.

[llydia]

I just got off work and am so late to the party. The opening little classic jingle itself almost made me fucking sob like an infant, I need a drink

awh mate, feeling you there. gotta couple of pints down me by now and few suspicious chemicals and i just ear lobed it for the first time deeply and let the new era in! hell yeah brothers, here's to hell ferno, ride the fire!

[Glen_Glog]

Dang you lot are making it very hard to abstain here

Mike and Marcus thanks for making this album that was very cool can't wait to hear it!

[Helios]

I must be an absolute idiot, because I don’t hear a guitar!

[Negamuse]

Bitcrushed drums happened in Reach for the Dead as well. It's these little things that tie back.

I put it on in the car and the Mr Mistake remix was in the next few tracks and like, it's *different* but looking back at it now the way its structured, the production on it is a signpost to where they were going on this, kinda. Really want to hear what else they're cooking.

[llydia]

Just want to point out, my wife, who is a defacto metal head to the maximum. Sat down and listened to the single, they just said "WTF, I didn't know boards of canada went that way" and with that they got a new fan. Ignore what reddit is saying, boards of canada, you fukin rock

[Den]

I'm feeling elated because I'd recently thought, "we're going to hear bongos on Inferno" - Alpha and Omega, Good Friday Remix, etc. Boom. Introit. And this also makes me feel even more certain that Tape 05 is not on the album.

Yeah I think it's safe to say Tape 05 is not on the album, with these two tracks having been officially released on all platforms but no Tape 05

Again if you listen closely, tape 5 is intermission between introit and the start of Prophecy. So technically it's there

I don’t want to go into analysis mode and overplay right now. From memory I only heard the drone from the introductory video.