GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC

[Echelon]

Black Box...Blue Dot. It's all come full circle now haha

[writetomhatcher]

I have a screenshot but I’m not sure how to use the IMG in this interface.

I just made a reddit post to make the image more accessible: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada ... ame=iossmf

[SamuraiDrifter]

Everyone seems to be gravitating towards the 22nd because that's the date of the Pioneer's final transmission, which connects with the Pioneer Plaque on the Hell Interface banner.

If the banner really is a sign of something to come... Doesn't that suggest it will be BoC's final "transmission?"

[darekH]

Everyone seems to be gravitating towards the 22nd because that's the date of the Pioneer's final transmission, which connects with the Pioneer Plaque on the Hell Interface banner.

If the banner really is a sign of something to come... Doesn't that suggest it will be BoC's final "transmission?"

Potentially, I certainly hope not, though!

Draws me back to the quote "We will always be making music"

It is really a way of life for them, so I don't see why not even if beyond a future release, it is just the odd remix.
They will always leave their fingerprints on something, I am quite sure.

[Echelon]

Everyone seems to be gravitating towards the 22nd because that's the date of the Pioneer's final transmission, which connects with the Pioneer Plaque on the Hell Interface banner.

If the banner really is a sign of something to come... Doesn't that suggest it will be BoC's final "transmission?"

I think they're blowing this popsicle stand. Probably won't stop making music but retreating from the public eye entirely after this. Probably to outer space with their kids

Though I'm hoping they give a positive message to humanity. There's so much to love about this world even in its sad state. Like music by thoughtful artists like them!

[tonx]

2 Scenario's:

Or they posted an unlisted video. (And deleted it)

Or they posted a public video and deleted it. (The blue dot stays, just tested it)

Or maybe Marcus is also using this as his personal youtube account and had to post a video of a dent in his Toyota to share with his car insurance company.

[egbdf]

Can anyone provide a summary of the theory surrounding the last Pioneer transmission, and the gap between TCH and TH? is the SKAM stuff discussed back here related? viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7374&start=12260

[Echelon]

Can anyone provide a summary of the theory surrounding the last Pioneer transmission, and the gap between TCH and TH? is the SKAM stuff discussed back here related? viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7374&start=12260

Back then, we thought Skam and the AMKS radio station was connected to the Hell Interface banner since they came out around the same time. But Skam came forward and said they weren't so disregard that entirely.

The Pioneer Satellite's final transmission (before it was lost in space forever) was on Jan 22. Jan 22, 2021 would be the same amount of time between Tomorrow's Harvest and a new album/project as TCH and TH minus a single day. BOC via MDG promised the wait would be shorter for the next release. And it would be....by a day.

[SamuraiDrifter]

BoC did not promise the wait would be shorter.

That's one of those rumors that's been repeated over and over again with almost no evidence behind it. The only source is an offhand comment in a supposed email between Joyrex and MDG.

Even if Joyrex is telling the truth about that email (this is the same guy who claims to have the original R35TT with no proof), it's not even a statement directly from the band, it would be MDG relating their intentions second-hand. And, even if MDG was accurately relating a direct quote from the band, they've promised countless things in the past that never happened: a full movie scored by them, a Hexagon Sun book, a BOCset, a 2010 album release, etc. So I would take that with a fraction of a grain of salt.

The only thing 1/22 has going for it is the Pioneer Plaque connection.

[Roswell]

BoC did not promise the wait would be shorter.

That's one of those rumors that's been repeated over and over again with almost no evidence behind it. The only source is an offhand comment in a supposed email between Joyrex and MDG.

Even if Joyrex is telling the truth about that email (this is the same guy who claims to have the original R35TT with no proof), it's not even a statement directly from the band, it would be MDG relating their intentions second-hand. And, even if MDG was accurately relating a direct quote from the band, they've promised countless things in the past that never happened: a full movie scored by them, a Hexagon Sun book, a BOCset, a 2010 album release, etc. So I would take that with a fraction of a grain of salt.

The only thing 1/22 has going for it is the Pioneer Plaque connection.

sad but true, my hopes are still high though.

[demo]

The moment an announcement is made, this thread should be closed immediately.

A possible new chapter is about to be made, but...

Must. Lower. Expectations.

[Echelon]

The moment an announcement is made, this thread should be closed immediately.

A possible new chapter is about to be made, but...

Must. Lower. Expectations.

But we must keep it open for the next 7-and-a-half-plus year wait. Imagine all the conspiracy theories we'd be missing! All the red herrings that turns into dead-ends. All the numerology!

Honestly, I'm going to laugh if something happens, we all party, and then a few months later, Opothecary comes back and we begin this cycle anew I'm almost tempted to look back to 2014 and see what happened after the dust settled with Harvest. I wonder if people were like, "I bet the new BOC release is coming next year." Those innocent days

[Twentington]

I listen to BBC Radio 6 every day, I've noticed more BOC popping up during the day, Aquarius was played last week by Lauren Laverne (it sounded fantastic through the extra compression they put on it!) then this morning they advertised a special about music and the mind with Olsen playing for about 10 seconds before the dialogue started - I've rarely heard BOC on radio 6 during the day since TH came out, they're usually only played during the obscure hours at night - hopefully all signs of the dawning of the age of Aquarius, it is the year after all ! (I want to believe!)

https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-w ... rius-begin

[Sherbet Head]

BoC did not promise the wait would be shorter.

That's one of those rumors that's been repeated over and over again with almost no evidence behind it. The only source is an offhand comment in a supposed email between Joyrex and MDG.

Ah man, I always assumed BoC mentioned that in an interview.

Well that's taken the wind out of my sails for sure. That Joyrex is a slippery ol' chap. The guy's either a pathological liar or an uber troll. I must've seen him drop at least 20 predictions/hints/nuggets of 'insider knowledge' over the years, but not a single statement has proven to be true. He claims to be in the know, but in reality he knows fuck all more than we do.

Hopefully this is a case of 'the Joy who cried wolf' but I'm not getting my hopes up. The Pioneer plaque theory is all we can trust right now.

[Twentington]

I listen to BBC Radio 6 every day, I've noticed more BOC popping up during the day, Aquarius was played last week by Lauren Laverne (it sounded fantastic through the extra compression they put on it!) then this morning they advertised a special about music and the mind with Olsen playing for about 10 seconds before the dialogue started - I've rarely heard BOC on radio 6 during the day since TH came out, they're usually only played during the obscure hours at night - hopefully all signs of the dawning of the age of Aquarius, it is the year after all ! (I want to believe!)

The program they were mentioning was Journeys in Sound (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rblb) next episode is on sunday, the first episode features BOC looking at the playlist but I've not checked it out yet

[arvy]

The moment an announcement is made, this thread should be closed immediately.

A possible new chapter is about to be made, but...

Must. Lower. Expectations.

No way. The thread started pre TH. It should have been clos3ed eyars ago. Also, TCH was so much more of a goodbye album, than TH.

[darekH]

A lot of people here seem to have a shared memory of the interview segment in question, claiming that it would be shorter between releases this time around, myself included. I was lurking when that was last under discussion and was tempted to chime in but inevitably only the repeated lockdowns got the better of me lol.

I also have this memory of a 2013 online newspaper interview with the brothers in which they said that.
I recall reading it shortly after TH dropped.

Either it is a collective false memory or it has since been edited or removed.

It isn't impossible that it was edited, in which case a cached version would be the safest bet, but finding which one it was would be difficult.

It looked a bit like the Guardian to me, but it probably wasn't.

[SamuraiDrifter]

I have read every English interview on BOCpages and a few in other languages via Google translate, and have never come across anything remotely like that supposed quote.

Last time it was brought up I asked for a source and Echleon told me they had gone on a mission to track it down and finally traced it to a supposed comment in an e-mail from MDG to Joyrex.

As Sherbet Head says, Joyrex has made multiple predictions or statements that turned out to be false. I truly think he's basically just a fan who wants to insert himself into the Warp insider scene and seem more important. I remember on WATMM once he claimed during the wait before TH that BoC had lost a bunch of work when their hard drive died and MDG responded almost immediately debunking it.

Repeated rumors like this absolutely can lead to constructing false memories. The closest BoC came in any interview I've seen to talking about another album was stating that they're always making music and have no plans to stop.

[WaitingFor_22]

My memory is of mdg making that comment here on twoism saying that the wait would be shorter. I thought maybe he deleted the comment once he realized that it wouldn't, but apparently his comments are backed up on bocpages.
The only thing I could find was the bros saying that the next album was half finished when TH was released, but that tells us nothing.

[Knifeyspooney]

Could be nothing, but Neil Krug, who did the artwork for TMH made an appreciation post to Societas x Tape on his Instagram Stories feed last night.
I've been following his work since 2013, and the only thing he ever posts is his own stuff, so this is out of character.