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bocbocbocboc wrote:When is this issue gonna come out anyway?

Echelon wrote:

bocbocbocboc wrote:When is this issue gonna come out anyway?

With the new album!

Haha kidding. It's going to come out when they finish it, I suppose, which could be in a few days or this December

drixlin wrote:I hadn't been notified of any updates for almost 2 weeks, missed all of May until now, got through over 10 pages of bac pages and...we're still waiting.

I love this thread.

drixlin wrote:I hadn't been notified of any updates for almost 2 weeks, missed all of May until now, got through over 10 pages of bac pages and...we're still waiting.

I love this thread.

rodox_head wrote:A new instalment in the Silent Hill series may have been confirmed to be in the works, so I guess anything's possible I guess. I honestly would have expected a new BoC release before that.

rodox_head wrote:A new instalment in the Silent Hill series may have been confirmed to be in the works, so I guess anything's possible I guess. I honestly would have expected a new BoC release before that.

Orbited insanitarium wrote:

rodox_head wrote:A new instalment in the Silent Hill series may have been confirmed to be in the works, so I guess anything's possible I guess. I honestly would have expected a new BoC release before that.

I take this topic as a kind of offhand mentioned entertainment newsletter sometimes.
For example: I had no idea Arcade Fire had announced an album until Echelon mentioned it about a month back.

Ironic that I'm brought to the attention of so many new upcoming projects/albums/films, from just being casually mentioned here. And yet, the only announcement we're all waiting for is *something* related to Boards of Canada.

Orbited insanitarium wrote:

rodox_head wrote:A new instalment in the Silent Hill series may have been confirmed to be in the works, so I guess anything's possible I guess. I honestly would have expected a new BoC release before that.

I take this topic as a kind of offhand mentioned entertainment newsletter sometimes.
For example: I had no idea Arcade Fire had announced an album until Echelon mentioned it about a month back.

Ironic that I'm brought to the attention of so many new upcoming projects/albums/films, from just being casually mentioned here. And yet, the only announcement we're all waiting for is *something* related to Boards of Canada.

Echelon wrote:I'm happy that my mention of Arcade Fire helped you remember them haha Even if they're not musically related, they share the whole "grand statement for the ages" vibe. I'm sure after TH BOC aren't going to shirk their narrative they continued with that album. It'll be the next musical blockbuster from them. As a friend of mine mentioned, BOC albums are a lot like the original six star wars films where everything was analyzed to death by the fans. I can't wait to do that with the next one

hexagonFox wrote:

rodox_head wrote:A new instalment in the Silent Hill series may have been confirmed to be in the works, so I guess anything's possible I guess. I honestly would have expected a new BoC release before that.

im gonna go search now about it, but all I wanted was Hideo Kojima to be working on it.

Orbited insanitarium wrote:

Echelon wrote:I'm happy that my mention of Arcade Fire helped you remember them haha Even if they're not musically related, they share the whole "grand statement for the ages" vibe. I'm sure after TH BOC aren't going to shirk their narrative they continued with that album. It'll be the next musical blockbuster from them. As a friend of mine mentioned, BOC albums are a lot like the original six star wars films where everything was analyzed to death by the fans. I can't wait to do that with the next one

Truth be told, I haven't listened to the new Arcade Fire yet. I'm trying not to be influenced by the opinions of Fantano and Pitchfork, luckily, they'll both be focusing on Kendrick Lamar's recent big Musical blockbuster release!

Actually 'Musical blockbuster' is a riveting way of describing BoC's discography. Makes sense that they would build upon the grandeur scope of Tomorrow's Harvest going forward.

All we need now is for George Lucas to produce another space-based cinematic soap opera, but this time with BoC's psychedelic synth noodling to blissfully accompany it.

antennaria05 wrote:

ColinWallis wrote:it's easy for everything to seem bad in current times because we have never had the ability to be aware of (and stream live from a device we keep in our pockets) all the insanity occurring around the globe.

i'm not saying there is any shortage of negativity or bad shit happening, but i will say i believe there is more positivity in the world than there ever has been, and more and more people become aware of it every day.

sure, the war between awareness, truth and censorship can be frightening, but that is just inevitable human nature playing out. chimp-like tribalism.

just because things are chaotic and overwhelming doesn't mean they aren't getting better.

As much as I'm baffled by this kind of statements I have to agree.

I don't live in a first world country, but each time I talk to or conceive my elders' lives I am amazed by the persistence of conjoined human effort and how far we have reached in improving our conditions, physical and spiritual and what not. Many of their lives were crushed through work since childhood and useless warfare. They wouldn't dream of spending time with friends or partners, reading books, going to concerts, travelling around, much less think about it. Idleness was a myth at best.

And yet there is a mystification of decadence hard not to fall into. I would consider myself fairly neurotypical. I go through my share of illusions and troubles as much as the dude next door. But often (e. g. yesterday when I was strolling across the city (no, I wasn't listening to BoC) and looking at passers-by's expressions) I can't evade a certain vibe of pervading gloom. Is it due to the downfall of religion and moral values? Or am I projecting my own morbidity into otherness and the world?

Anyhow, I always appreciate these posts; they lift me up. It might well be that, as Leibniz said, we live in the best of all possible worlds. Thank you.

Myc wrote:

antennaria05 wrote:

ColinWallis wrote:it's easy for everything to seem bad in current times because we have never had the ability to be aware of (and stream live from a device we keep in our pockets) all the insanity occurring around the globe.

i'm not saying there is any shortage of negativity or bad shit happening, but i will say i believe there is more positivity in the world than there ever has been, and more and more people become aware of it every day.

sure, the war between awareness, truth and censorship can be frightening, but that is just inevitable human nature playing out. chimp-like tribalism.

just because things are chaotic and overwhelming doesn't mean they aren't getting better.

As much as I'm baffled by this kind of statements I have to agree.

I don't live in a first world country, but each time I talk to or conceive my elders' lives I am amazed by the persistence of conjoined human effort and how far we have reached in improving our conditions, physical and spiritual and what not. Many of their lives were crushed through work since childhood and useless warfare. They wouldn't dream of spending time with friends or partners, reading books, going to concerts, travelling around, much less think about it. Idleness was a myth at best.

And yet there is a mystification of decadence hard not to fall into. I would consider myself fairly neurotypical. I go through my share of illusions and troubles as much as the dude next door. But often (e. g. yesterday when I was strolling across the city (no, I wasn't listening to BoC) and looking at passers-by's expressions) I can't evade a certain vibe of pervading gloom. Is it due to the downfall of religion and moral values? Or am I projecting my own morbidity into otherness and the world?

Anyhow, I always appreciate these posts; they lift me up. It might well be that, as Leibniz said, we live in the best of all possible worlds. Thank you.

Our folks might have had it bad. But at least they had it. The Earth magnetic field is weakening. We have a very fragile future. Our folks may have had their petty differences, but they never faced this. The collapse is going to be sudden and hard. Many will wish for death. Governments have plans to put their populations out of misery should it become too difficult.

ColinWallis wrote:our future has always been "fragile"

still, doesn't mean things are worse now than they were in the dark ages.

open your eyes. humanity is expanding beyond earth. we are curing diseases, poverty has never been lower....

personally i find it hard to understand how anyone could dwell in the gloominess so much.

especially when we're seemingly so close to finding out some crazy shit about UFOs lol