TH Track-by-track (The Quietus)

[seanandcandy]

I do not want to get bored of them or know them perfectly, because that would make them predictable.

i have over 13000 plays of boards of canada on last.fm and even more from listening to the vinyl etc and not one song is boring to me
still, there is something new to be heard each and everytime, without fail

but, if that's how you like it, then that's cool as well

the only thing i do when listening to an album for the first time is not pay attention to the track titles, this is especially fun when tracks run on and it just seems like one big song

[PlacentaSand]

lol Roygbiv part II. SGUNNA BE SICK.

[wash]

I fondly remember the days where pirating music to me meant hearing a 30-second sample on Amazon.com When I first discovered Boards of Canada I think I listened to the little clips of Julie and Candy and 1969 they had over and over and over. It never ruined the delight of hearing them for the first time in the album, though - on the contrary, it made it even more exciting to hear how the little fragments I did know fit into the greater whole. I feel like hearing Tomorrow's Harvest after reading these descriptions will be sort of the same way. This is just getting our feet wet for what's to come. It's not like a filet mignon is ruined if you know that's what you're about to have for dinner.

[The Friendly Stranger]

after reading that description, I need "Jacquard Causeway" in my life. Now.

[duk_koo_kim]

Not going to read any of these reviews. Don't really like ideas being put in my head before I've constructed my own.

EDIT: I have no self control whatsoever. Popped up on my facebook and I couldn't not click it. Glad I did actually, a great article and the new album sounds AMAZING.

haha this is precisely how my day went yesterday, only I went throught the cycle of "I'm strong, I won't look at it- FUCK JUST READ- No, I'm stro-FUCK READ IT-No, I'm- READ-NO-READ-AHHHHHHH!" And then I read it. And maybe internalized the text too much, because I dreamed up the new album last night- I woke up in the middle of "Sick Times" (or whatever, I think I told myself it must have been that tune) because it was becoming too intense. Or because I had to pee.

[ryetronics]

Here is another track-by-track analysis that popped up...

http://www.clashmusic.com/features/firs ... ws-harvest

[IronMark]

It begins with a short fanfare, a synthesised note-burst surely half-inched from some forgotten '70s educational program. It’s sweet, it’s fun and it’s completely in tune with where Boards Of Canada have come from – sounding not unlike computer start up code, this is a mechanised wink, a programmed nudge, a pun built for the future.

Both track-by-track reviews have talked about this sound at the start and I wonder if it could be the jingle from the numbers station codes? Although, obviously you'd think the people reviewing the tracks would have known that but they do sound familiar.

[Moz]

It begins with a short fanfare, a synthesised note-burst surely half-inched from some forgotten '70s educational program. It’s sweet, it’s fun and it’s completely in tune with where Boards Of Canada have come from – sounding not unlike computer start up code, this is a mechanised wink, a programmed nudge, a pun built for the future.

Both track-by-track reviews have talked about this sound at the start and I wonder if it could be the jingle from the numbers station codes? Although, obviously you'd think the people reviewing the tracks would have known that but they do sound familiar.

Maybe they had listening sessions and wrote reviews before the campaign?

[Keeoaddi]

Promised myself I wouldn't read these articles but couldn't help it. This bit is interesting.

‘Jacquard Causeway’ is dark, extreme and lasts for over six minutes – the bellowing bottom end is just one indication that Boards Of Canada have purchased the odd Shackleton 12 inch.

I was just wondering today if they would ever be able to incorporate any dubstep influence, as Reach for the Dead is around the right BPM, and I saw people saying it had great bass.

[Helios]

Promised myself I wouldn't read these articles but couldn't help it. This bit is interesting.

‘Jacquard Causeway’ is dark, extreme and lasts for over six minutes – the bellowing bottom end is just one indication that Boards Of Canada have purchased the odd Shackleton 12 inch.

I was just wondering today if they would ever be able to incorporate any dubstep influence, as Reach for the Dead is around the right BPM, and I saw people saying it had great bass.

I really dislike dubstep. Hope there is zero dubstep influence (none of the track-by-tracks mentioned any).

[Geogandhi]

Fuck dubstep and fuck skrillex!
Dubstep has really ruined the use of different Lfo timings for modulating filter for everyone. If you even think of doing anything like that you'll be tarred with the dubstep brush.
I like dirty bass driven tracks but dubstep is and has become a joke.

[Mexicola]

I'll gladly predict, with some confidence, that this album has as much to do with dubstep as my arse does with bookbinding.

[Geogandhi]

Of course but the suggestion of that word just made my eyes buldge and my veins pop.

[Keeoaddi]

Fuck dubstep and fuck skrillex!
Dubstep has really ruined the use of different Lfo timings for modulating filter for everyone. If you even think of doing anything like that you'll be tarred with the dubstep brush.
I like dirty bass driven tracks but dubstep is and has become a joke.

well i was more thinking of shackleton and that kind of sub bass + polyrhythms stuff rather than skrillex, but yeah, that was all happening a few years ago, I guess just the word 'dubstep' is a bit of a useless label now.

[realspiel]

What the hell is dub step, is it an American phrase? I pretty sure it's not in the uk musical genre vocabulary!

[qualia]

Fuck dubstep and fuck skrillex!
Dubstep has really ruined the use of different Lfo timings for modulating filter for everyone. If you even think of doing anything like that you'll be tarred with the dubstep brush.
I like dirty bass driven tracks but dubstep is and has become a joke.

well i was more thinking of shackleton and that kind of sub bass + polyrhythms stuff rather than skrillex, but yeah, that was all happening a few years ago, I guess just the word 'dubstep' is a bit of a useless label now.

i've heard some people starting to call that "future garage" :P

[PlacentaSand]

There was a track from Autechre in 1996 i think that sounded pretty dubstep by todays standards and the song is awesome. Burial might have the right idea when it comes to the genre but i guess its just a form of electronic music that's been warped pretty hard. The 11min boc track from the WARP10 party has a kind of dubstep feel to it (and ive seen people get bashed for saying so) but its not a dubstep track its boc so...

mainstream dubstep is just a noise contest/ bass contest unfortunately. the genre has potential to be a gritty urban underground kinda thing, thats why i think Burial has the right idea.

[Keeoaddi]

Fuck dubstep and fuck skrillex!
Dubstep has really ruined the use of different Lfo timings for modulating filter for everyone. If you even think of doing anything like that you'll be tarred with the dubstep brush.
I like dirty bass driven tracks but dubstep is and has become a joke.

well i was more thinking of shackleton and that kind of sub bass + polyrhythms stuff rather than skrillex, but yeah, that was all happening a few years ago, I guess just the word 'dubstep' is a bit of a useless label now.

i've heard some people starting to call that "future garage"

i'm not very hip on what it's called at the moment. i'm sure it was 'post dubstep' at one point

[Geogandhi]

Burial must have been washing his hands of that tag a couple of years ago. Burial is good electronic music, simply that. Genre's are shit full stop. Anyone that coins a new one is more interested in fame than the music.

Oh and Check out my music on souncloud it's called spaz and re-tardrone is he next big thing

[qualia]

i'm not very hip on what it's called at the moment. i'm sure it was 'post dubstep' at one point

right, that too. it's not too important altogether, but it is quite annoying how people assume brostep when you say "dubstep". i'm just glad hessle audio still puts out great stuff