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[ColinWallis]

i am certain that anything they decide to record and release to the public will deeply satisfy me in more than a few ways that none, or very few artists are even capable of doing.

[ColinWallis]

in other words, i hardly care / worry about what it might sound like

to outsiders it would seem weird but i have faith in Boards of Canada.

sometimes i like to imagine things they might do, but i really have no concern especially regarding whether or not their art will move me.

reading that back, it does sound kind of crazy, doesn't it?

but i know a lot of you reading this know exactly what i mean.

[dcom]

IDM = It Doesn't Matter™.

[Wildfire]

I want to hear BOC do pure ambience.

[pilot12]

A boc ambient album would be a dream come true. Imagine if they did a collaboration with Wolfgang Voigt…

[Wildfire]

Some of my favourite tracks are beatless. Sundown, Untitled Live etc.

[sandrail]

Some of my favourite tracks are beatless. Sundown, Untitled Live etc.

Which untitled track? Flute Frum Thing?

[Davism]

Some of my favourite tracks are beatless. Sundown, Untitled Live etc.

Sundown is so beautiful.

[arvy]

I think it is obligatory for them to put something chineese in their music. I want my chineese lady sampled talking about arrival at the designated high speed-rail train station.

Also, some ideas for the album cover, I think that foggy abandoned Nara dreamland image would be cool.

[ColinWallis]

IDM = It Doesn't Matter™.

[Echelon]

i am certain that anything they decide to record and release to the public will deeply satisfy me in more than a few ways that none, or very few artists are even capable of doing.

I agree on this. For all the words I've posted, I've got a feeling that it's probably going to be great, regardless of what it is.

Though I do suspect there will be a heavily divisive, acid-minded track on their next album as there usually is. AKA Basefree, Rue The Whirl, Zoetrope, Sherbet Head and Jackyard Causeway.

I'll probably dig it, as I dig all those tracks, though I'm sure there will be tons of debates on this divisive track's worthiness. One of the most memorable-for-the-wrong-reason quotes from someone on a new (at the time) TH track was that Palace Posey sounded like a "handicapped giant playing with its balls."

[rodox_head]

i am certain that anything they decide to record and release to the public will deeply satisfy me in more than a few ways that none, or very few artists are even capable of doing.

I agree on this. For all the words I've posted, I've got a feeling that it's probably going to be great, regardless of what it is.

Though I do suspect there will be a heavily divisive, acid-minded track on their next album as there usually is. AKA Basefree, Rue The Whirl, Zoetrope, Sherbet Head and Jackyard Causeway.

I'll probably dig it, as I dig all those tracks, though I'm sure there will be tons of debates on this divisive track's worthiness. One of the most memorable-for-the-wrong-reason quotes from someone on a new (at the time) TH track was that Palace Posey sounded like a "handicapped giant playing with its balls."

I think Rue The Whirl suffers from being sandwiched between Roygbiv and Aquarius. I never thought it was a bad track, and I still find nothing wrong with it, but I still tend to instinctively skip it. I've found myself doing this on other albums as well. Never knew this was a shared feeling though, and didn't realize Sherbet Head was one of them either.

[Echelon]

didn't realize Sherbet Head was one of them either.

Maybe Sherbet Head isn't one, but I've heard some varying opinions on it. It's the weirdest track on Headphase by a country mile and reminds me a lot of their older weirdness. Love it though. Especially the weird "snow/sherbet shoveling" static sounds.

Rue the Whirl definitely is subversive being between two of their greatest hits. It's a difficult track at first, but the ending coda is the closest they ever got to the Beatles. It sounds like the mellotron you'd hear in Flying on Magical Mystery Tour and a bit of Strawberry Fields Forever too.

[belchmaster]

Love it though. Especially the weird "snow/sherbet shoveling" static sounds.

I've always heard an indoor swimming pool ambience in that track. But now that you mentioned it, it does sound like snow shoveling.

[rodox_head]

didn't realize Sherbet Head was one of them either.

Maybe Sherbet Head isn't one, but I've heard some varying opinions on it. It's the weirdest track on Headphase by a country mile and reminds me a lot of their older weirdness. Love it though. Especially the weird "snow/sherbet shoveling" static sounds.

Rue the Whirl definitely is subversive being between two of their greatest hits. It's a difficult track at first, but the ending coda is the closest they ever got to the Beatles. It sounds like the mellotron you'd hear in Flying on Magical Mystery Tour and a bit of Strawberry Fields Forever too.

Maybe I just really need to listen to TCH deeply again. Funnily enough, my first BoC album, yet probably my least favorite of the 4 LPs, which doesn't say much to be fair. I think that instinctive skip reaction probably goes to Oscar See Through Red Eye for me. Sherbet Head and Ataronchronon have a beautifully dark tone to them that makes them great mid-album tracks, OSTRE doesn't really do it for me though. Looking at how the albums are divided for the vinyl releases as opposed to CD gives a better perspective as to how to listen to the tracks. Rue The Whirl sounds a little off when put between tracks, but sounds great as an opener for side three. It's a great track that's easy to overlook.

[SamuraiDrifter]

What are you guys hoping to hear from the next album? The space theme that's been knocked around sounds pretty interesting to me, personally. I'd be interested to hear a continuous narrative space opera in album form from them. Or at the very least something with song transitions. Tomorrow's Harvest was lacking in that department.

That reddit post from months ago about the all black cover and the 10 minute track kind of mirrored what I'd like to see, except for the black cover. that doesn't feel right for boc and solid colour artwork is a tad boring, especially for boc... A ten minute track would be incredible though.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing BOC would ever do a blank, solid-color album given how much of a visual element their music has always had.

[TheStatPow]

What are you guys hoping to hear from the next album? The space theme that's been knocked around sounds pretty interesting to me, personally. I'd be interested to hear a continuous narrative space opera in album form from them. Or at the very least something with song transitions. Tomorrow's Harvest was lacking in that department.

That reddit post from months ago about the all black cover and the 10 minute track kind of mirrored what I'd like to see, except for the black cover. that doesn't feel right for boc and solid colour artwork is a tad boring, especially for boc... A ten minute track would be incredible though.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing BOC would ever do a blank, solid-color album given how much of a visual element their music has always had.

Peel Session.

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Peel Session.

Not to be an "um actually" guy but the '98 Peel art wasn't designed by BoC, it was designed by Warp. Warp used the same template for Autechre and The Black Dog's peel sessions. The HS/music70 CD-R copy uses a BoC designed cover, a cover that's a lot cooler looking than the one Warp chose for the original '98 issue

[NorthSaturnian]

What are you guys hoping to hear from the next album? The space theme that's been knocked around sounds pretty interesting to me, personally. I'd be interested to hear a continuous narrative space opera in album form from them. Or at the very least something with song transitions. Tomorrow's Harvest was lacking in that department.

That reddit post from months ago about the all black cover and the 10 minute track kind of mirrored what I'd like to see, except for the black cover. that doesn't feel right for boc and solid colour artwork is a tad boring, especially for boc... A ten minute track would be incredible though.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing BOC would ever do a blank, solid-color album given how much of a visual element their music has always had.

Peel Session.

does Catalog 3 count?

[Echelon]

Love it though. Especially the weird "snow/sherbet shoveling" static sounds.

I've always heard an indoor swimming pool ambience in that track. But now that you mentioned it, it does sound like snow shoveling.

Rettic AC from Autechre's Chiastic Slide shares a similar "snow shoveling" effect in the noises, but with BOC they predictably add melodicity into the mix. Really showcases a similar method of IDM between the bands, but BOC favorably, for me at least, choose to include a strong and weird synth melody with it.

Honestly, one of my favorite elements of IDM is all the noises where you have no idea what the hell is making it, but its very compelling. It's for that reason, why BOC probably take a long time. They're busy inventing noises that we've never heard before.