GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC

[Fredd-E]

I mean, nothing really has happened since then, and that wasn't really a formal announcement of anything.

This goes to show some people will never be happy unless the official Twitter sends out the pre-order link or something similar. But to me, when someone like MDG, their official spokesperson, tells us it is happening, it is happening. And that should be more than reason enough to be happy. He made it official enough by sending that one message to babylulu. I know his worth by now.

Ahem...

since then

Nothing major has actually happened between then and now other than this whole deletion thing.

I never said the album isn't in development and I never doubted MDG's credibility. Just because it's an "official" statement, doesn't necessarily make it "formal"; hell, it wasn't even technically public. With all due respect, please don't put words in my mouth.

With all due respect, I was talking about some people, like in general. No need to feel offended.

[luminousdusk]

I mean, nothing really has happened since then, and that wasn't really a formal announcement of anything.

This goes to show some people will never be happy unless the official Twitter sends out the pre-order link or something similar. But to me, when someone like MDG, their official spokesperson, tells us it is happening, it is happening. And that should be more than reason enough to be happy. He made it official enough by sending that one message to babylulu. I know his worth by now.

Ahem...

since then

Nothing major has actually happened between then and now other than this whole deletion thing.

I never said the album isn't in development and I never doubted MDG's credibility. Just because it's an "official" statement, doesn't necessarily make it "formal"; hell, it wasn't even technically public. With all due respect, please don't put words in my mouth.

Back before Headphase we didn't even get any announcements, they just dropped albums and eps out of nowhere. So regardless of whether MDG says somethings coming or not, as I quoted in my last post, the brothers are always working, always making music and have no intention to stop

[Orbited insanitarium]

Calm down. The lot of yous. It's Saturday tomorrow. This is one BoC filled reality. Saturday is another one. I for one am going into town and to the library tomorrow, amen.

Take it from me, and have some kip.

[Fredd-E]

This goes to show some people will never be happy unless the official Twitter sends out the pre-order link or something similar. But to me, when someone like MDG, their official spokesperson, tells us it is happening, it is happening. And that should be more than reason enough to be happy. He made it official enough by sending that one message to babylulu. I know his worth by now.

Ahem...
[quote="rodox_head wrote:since then

Nothing major has actually happened between then and now other than this whole deletion thing.

I never said the album isn't in development and I never doubted MDG's credibility. Just because it's an "official" statement, doesn't necessarily make it "formal"; hell, it wasn't even technically public. With all due respect, please don't put words in my mouth.

Back before Headphase we didn't even get any announcements, they just dropped albums and eps out of nowhere. So regardless of whether MDG says somethings coming or not, as I quoted in my last post, the brothers are always working, always making music and have no intention to stop[/quote]You learn something new everyday.

[Fredd-E]

Calm down. The lot of yous. It's Saturday tomorrow. This is one BoC filled reality. Saturday is another one. I for one am going into town and to the library tomorrow, amen.

Take it from me, and have some kip.

It’s already Saturday over here. :-/

[luminousdusk]

I mean sure for geogaddi there was certainly a little bit of promotion but there was certainly no forums where a HexSun official would tell you an album is on its way, so I appreciate MDG for that, he didn't have to tell us anything at all but he did, literally just to give some twoism fans some hope. Thanks MDG!

[steeldancer-x]

Yes you the man MDG, hope you know that. Thank you friend.

[Echelon]

I think we can all rest safe in the knowledge that the bros are working tirelessly to bring us new music and we will have it before we know it, soon we will be discussing the tracks and the artwork and such and I really look forward to it. I like the waiting game personally

If this is finally going to be goodbye, it will be bittersweet. I've been following the BOC community and activity since Societas so it'll be sad having nothing to wait for if they pull a Daft Punk. (Though luckily it'll be a Daft Punk with actual content!)

I'm almost 100% certain they won't pull a Daft Punk so do not despair my friend!

I remember the same feeling after seeing 'Farewell fire' on the tracklist of Headphase, thinking it was all over!

Yes they have a 5 album contract with warp apparently which will be coming to an end soon but I don't see any reason why they couldn't continue with a new contract with warp, go back to skam, music70 or start their own label. As Marcus said in one interview after TH..

"we’ve no intention of stopping, so this is just a continuation"

Even MDG said, I think, that just before TH came out they had more than one record in the final stages!

So that definitely gives me hope that they out for the gusto and they gonna keep it raw.

Also the fact that they redesigned and expanded their studio space.. Which sounded apparently quite a mission, before TH tells me that they have long term future music plans.

I'd even hold out hope of seeing them live one day, as they've said in numerous interviews that they are working towards this in some capacity.

I remain eternally hopeful.. I just keep Satellite Icarus and Skyliner on repeat and try not to get too bogged down in Semena Mertvykh vibes.. That's one hell of a dark place..

No.. Keep the light shining in, see those billions of photons penetrating into prisms.. Splitting the light into infinite lines of colourful sevens, bursting with glistening neon fractals and hear those warm analog rainbow arpeggios cascading through the ethereal bocosphere!

Nice to hear some positivity on here! I was like this until life happened, but at least now I know how Mike's depression feels like.

Still, I think that BOC are too awesome to truly Daft Punk their fanbase. As much as I like the Frenchmen, it is odd how they were together for nearly 8 years before dropping out. Makes me wonder what happened. Hopefully nothing bad, but that's one of the instances where I wish someone knew and could explain it. I still trust the scots more than the bots though!

[The Spaniard]

MDG hasn't mentioned anything regarding the new album being released soon publicly. I think that if he was certain he would have said it publicly instead of privately to babylulu, or he would have notified @Fredd-E privately. Maybe what he meant by his PM to babylulu is that they are working on a new album and at some point it will be released. Maybe he has PMed the same message to other members in the past and they never disclosed this information.

One possibility is that he didn't want this to be leaked, but why would he tell babylulu and risk it in any case?
Another possibility is that he wanted this to be leaked, but why would he tell babylulu and assume they would leak it?
Has he contacted other users and they never shared they were told the album was going to be released soon?

As much as I want them to release a new LP, I believe that MDG would have been more open or vocal if he really believed an album would be coming soon or in 2023, but I don't know.

[demo]

MDG hasn't mentioned anything regarding the new album being released soon publicly. I think that if he was certain he would have said it publicly instead of privately to babylulu, or he would have notified @Fredd-E privately. Maybe what he meant by his PM to babylulu is that they are working on a new album and at some point it will be released. Maybe he has PMed the same message to other members in the past and they never disclosed this information.

One possibility is that he didn't want this to be leaked, but why would he tell babylulu and risk it in any case?
Another possibility is that he wanted this to be leaked, but why would he tell babylulu and assume they would leak it?
Has he contacted other users and they never shared they were told the album was going to be released soon?

As much as I want them to release a new LP, I believe that MDG would have been more open or vocal if he really believed an album would be coming soon or in 2023, but I don't know.

MDG probably just wanted to keep it on the down low. A private message being leaked is unlikely to cause a wave of excitement across the entire BoC fanbase, that's just something us Twoismers would latch on to. I think it's safe to say a new album is being worked on.

Will it be next year?
Uh, I hope so... Most artists turn around cycles for an album is roughly around 3 years. So to only have 2 albums in over 10 years is a bit alarming, I also really do hope for that reason that they have more than 1 album planned.

[Fredd-E]

I think it's safe to say a new album is being worked on.

This. And eventually isn't this all that matters? Especially because many people on this forum amongst others were convinced TH was going to be their final album.

[demo]

I think it's safe to say a new album is being worked on.

This. And eventually isn't this all that matters? Especially because many people on this forum amongst others were convinced TH was going to be their final album.

Well I'd say the "what" and "when" matters just as much as the "if", we can all still discuss the "what is the album going to be" and "when are we going to get it", but maybe they're just not as exciting questions compared to "is the album even going to happen?"

I also think a lot of us say "this could be their final album" as solace, tempering our expectations just incase it is their last album in a way to not disappoint ourselves. In fact a lot of the people who still say they don't believe an album is coming likely say it in order to temper their expectations. It's safer to have low expectations and be surprised than it is to have high expectations and then be disappointed.

[Biznasty]

people forget that "if" and "when" are often interchangeable at the beginning of the same questions.

[Davism]

I think what's frustrating is that we are running out of reasons for the "delay." Record production is caught up now, right? There are no other reasons for production delay, right? We've exhausted the pioneer plaque dates, right? Makes me wonder if they scrapped a previous ARG and planned a new one, for whatever reason.

[Burning Shadow]

I think what's frustrating is that we are running out of reasons for the "delay." Record production is caught up now, right? There are no other reasons for production delay, right? We've exhausted the pioneer plaque dates, right? Makes me wonder if they scrapped a previous ARG and planned a new one, for whatever reason.

Well a reason might be that it isn’t finished yet, at least not to their satisfaction. These guys are perfectionists.

[Biznasty]

We've exhausted the pioneer plaque dates, right?

You assume they were ever planning on following those.

[Biznasty]

All we've got left is an "After ten years of silence, Boards of Canada return with their fifth LP" approach.

[ryetronics]

Is anyone a fan of the novelist Cormac McCarthy? I feel like his approach to his work is very similar to BOC. He hadn't released a book since his Pulitzer-winning novel The Road back in 2007 or so, he doesn't do interviews (only a scant few) and he doesn't communicate with his fanbase. Then, out of the blue earlier this year, news released that he was releasing a novel called The Passenger. This was a book he had been rumored to be working on since the 1970's. But not just that... a 2nd book that is heavily linked to the first would come out a month later. It blew everyone away but in that time between The Road and these new ones, very similar conversations as in this thread were happening.

Point being, some artists don't have a logical reason (to us, at least) why it takes them so long to release things, but that's just the way they handle their work. Some artists truly don't take into account what we think or want because it's not important to them and their work. I think we see that on display with BOC.

So, the moral of the story is, cherish what they have released and be patient for what they have yet to release. Anything else is just conjecture and unneeded worry.

[demo]

Ya know.... I kinda get why BoC might decide to just make music for themselves and then decide to never release it to the public. I have been listening to my unreleased album all week. This period before I decide to release it, where I can just spend time with the album all on my own and be my own audience. it's fun, it feels kinda special, and hard to describe. I don't even know why I'm releasing it to be honest, I guess because some people sometimes ask me "can I listen to your music?" whenever I tell them I make stuff. But also it does feel like a totem, something I can point to and say "this was me" and then walk away from. On the off chance someone else might enjoy it, ill release it. But I see no reason why I couldn't decide to be selfish and just keep the album for my own enjoyment.

Anyway, didn't meant to get personal, not at all using this as a way to promote the thing, but I thought it might be worthwhile food for thought to share, a way to understand why BoC may keep many of their albums unreleased and personal.

[Orbited insanitarium]

If music be the food of love, then BoC spend an awful long time heating it in the oven.