Tomorrow's Harvest

[Elexen]

i just wana say that everyone who was disapointed with TCH will probly be even more disapointed with this album so dont get ur hopes up boc isnt going more 'old shool boc that u know and love' theyre going NEXT LEVEL, AGAIN. just like they did with TCH. so get used 2 it.

Absolutely agree. I'd like to smugly predict there will be much wailing (including us Twoism-ers) when the album fails to turn out to sound like vintage BoC. There's already a rumor that the brothers said 'people will be surprised'.

Also, do you really think they're going to produce more of the same after 8 years? I don't. Also a lot of people fail to grasp the reality that true artists have no obligation or interest in producing what their fans expect.

I trust them and cannot wait to hear the new direction their work has taken.

I like this attitude. Next level isn't always welcome at first, but it's necessary for the artist whether we like it or not. I gladly welcome whatever is in store. I really don't understand how anyone was disappointed with TCH. I thought it was amazing from the start. Perfect album. Different, yes, but perfect. I wouldn't want to hear the same album repeated over and over again. So I'm happily expecting something a bit different. People expecting more of the same are going to be super disappointed when they get their brand new copy of TH, throw it on the turntable and suddenly find out that Mike and Marcus have decided to sing! Just kidding, I jest.... or do I?

[Magrathea]

I am not expecting anything special, in kind of vignettes or build or even sound, however I do expect to be brought onto a vision, auditory of course, a mental landscape that will be shaped by that creativity and the richness of which hopefully will trigger some of the responses other albums have. Not everything they have done works for me, some of the stuff I almost never listen to, but the rest when it works I can enjoy fully, and that is what I am looking for, I am expecting 1-2 tracks that will be just no-brainers amazing to me, a few fillers, and somewhere in between the dark unknown

I can't wait, but I am also not foaming at the teeth because of exactly that, I want to enter this with no expectations, for I am sure that both Marcus and Michael had a vision first, but of course as all things it evolved.

Am I the only one to think that this isn't work that took 7-8 years but something more recent? I'd like to think it all congealed within the last 1-2 years at the most.

[rainier]

People expecting more of the same are going to be super disappointed when they get their brand new copy of TH, throw it on the turntable and suddenly find out that Mike and Marcus have decided to sing! Just kidding, I jest.... or do I?

Or rapping!

I don't really know what to expect, I don't have my hopes pinned on anything in particular, I like stuff they've done all across the spectrum, I can't really choose my favorite "type" of boc song. I guess I would like to be surprised by something unexpected, from interviews it seems like there's directions they've wanted to move in that we haven't heard yet. Who knows.

I'm such a fanatic though, I feel so sappy and grateful that we get to hear more, because I'd kind of made peace with the idea they weren't ever going to release anything again.

[Distant Nebulus]

New album will surely sound like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZqGDc2sBh0

I wish that didn't annoy me so much.

[herxagernsurn]

I am pretty sure this record is going to be just like Geogaddi but with a bluegrass and polka influence. Lots of off-key singing and the sound of plants growing will be pervasive in the background.

[thepastinsidepressant]

exciting times, its the almost 8 year gap, the apparent darkness and that cover artwork is throwing me off, i.e. its just too damn hard to predict what we're about to be blown away with.

[Jakerpoo]

i honestly don't know how anyone could not like TCH, oscar see through red eye continues to be one of the most intriguing songs in my library

and i'ms ure many are at the point that they take dayvan cowboy for granted, cuz you know, it's like what stairway to heaven is for led zeppelin, but it is a fucking masterpiece.

and satellite anthem icarus? give me a break. that stuff is incredible.

ataronchronon? constants are changing? it's like they haven't even listened to the album

[North by North]

i honestly don't know how anyone could not like TCH, oscar see through red eye continues to be one of the most intriguing songs in my library

and i'ms ure many are at the point that they take dayvan cowboy for granted, cuz you know, it's like what stairway to heaven is for led zeppelin, but it is a fucking masterpiece.

and satellite anthem icarus? give me a break. that stuff is incredible.

ataronchronon? constants are changing? it's like they haven't even listened to the album

Absolutely. Amazing album. And Macquarie Ridge add-on to end the experience- just pure wonderfullness.

[b0qurant]

i honestly don't know how anyone could not like TCH, oscar see through red eye continues to be one of the most intriguing songs in my library

and i'ms ure many are at the point that they take dayvan cowboy for granted, cuz you know, it's like what stairway to heaven is for led zeppelin, but it is a fucking masterpiece.

and satellite anthem icarus? give me a break. that stuff is incredible.

ataronchronon? constants are changing? it's like they haven't even listened to the album

Absolutely. Amazing album. And Macquarie Ridge add-on to end the experience- just pure wonderfullness.

Thank you. I'm a huge BoC fan and love basically all of their work ... TCH is no exception. I fucking love this album.

[chorus]

TCH is pure quality apart from three tracks; Hey Saturday sun, Oscar STRE and Satellite IA, really reminds me of one of the crappiest bands on the planet - Zero 7. Just dull and uninteresting.

On the other hand, Constants, Macquarie, chromakey, and Dayvan are in my opinion some of the best tracks they have ever made.

[realspiel]

Can we get a countdown counter for the UK release on the site?

[esselfortium]

TCH is pure quality apart from [...] Oscar STRE [...] Just dull and uninteresting.

You're shitting me.

[Opothecary]

I think when it comes to bands with cult followings, the album that got you into them will always be held to a higher regard to you than the rest of their existing fanbase. TCH is not my favorite, but I can't see it being better than it is based on what they were going for, which was somewhat of a break from the sound that they're known for. Still really good overall, but more or less their attempt at a warped pop album.

[MindElevation]

I love TCH with a passion. Especially when I'm in a peaceful, happy mood. Constants are changing is like a short snippet of heaven. Peacock tail also makes me feel extremely fuzzy inside. Tear from a compound eye is just...well... beautiful.

Sure it's quite the departure from the Geogaddi stuff (which is my favourite album) but that is why I love BoC with such obsessiveness. They encapsulate every emotion I can muster within their music and I don't think they could have done that without diversifying and including an album like TCH in their body of work.

[realspiel]

http://www.webcountdown.net/?a=CeKywMG&k=rqZ8

[MindElevation]

http://www.webcountdown.net/?a=CeKywMG&k=rqZ8

May just sit and stare at that without moving until it reaches 00:00:00

[realspiel]

http://www.webcountdown.net/?a=CeKywMG&k=rqZ8

May just sit and stare at that without moving until it reaches 00:00:00

I agree, this whole work/family thing just gets in the way

[zeitgeist]

Hello to all.

New here, but a tried and true b0c vet with many, many years as a fan and countless of thousands of hours listened.

I say the above not to impress anyone, but rather, from the fans I've met, there are the ones who dig the vibe and general sound, and simply are fans, and then are are the other folk, who ..somehow..sense something much greater at work(play) here.

There is a preternatural language that lies just beneath the ancient structure we excavate by listening. There is a secret amidst the (dis)chords.

I'm really excited for this album in general, but more specifically, after I heard and saw the video, I was elated to see Mike and Marcus going back to the darker fringe of their work. Or perhaps moving forward. More on that in a second. This is the -old- alchemy here that the older heads like myself miss, and do so pine indefinitely for.

Because..ya know, it is not ever..ever successfully duplicated. It cannot be.

This style is what I wasn't really seeing in Campfire and TCH.

This is that barren wasteland that is all at once desolate and radiant.

This is the darker edge of the woods. The darker rivers of your heart. The places you don't talk about to anyone, that in spite of that persist...and linger. And this is b0c at their finest.

We're going to see a rebirth here. And it is absolutely on purpose. You guys always must remember, everything they do is a play by numbers. ...Just as I used the expression now with a double reference to an older work. But of course, you wouldn't know that unless you knew the album.

They waited. They purposely waited. They wove the fabric during their active years. They evolved their sound to it's latter-day, modernist(for them, mind you), engaging clarity. But it was too rich a tapestry for it's own good. They began to civilize the primordial(prime audio) soup from whence it first came..but into a creature that conveyed less wisdom, and instead spoke more words.

All civilizations invariably fall. This album is back into the woods with the lads. This is that first cycle again.

And it just so happens to be my fucking favorite.

This particular sound, is what got me into the Boards. This austere, solitary, overwhelmingly emotional breadth of life. It knows me somehow. I cannot hide from it. It knows my every secret. It has many secrets to impart. I must be worthy though. I must be brave enough to surrender.

This sound is the ultimate perception of our stark reality as we truly exist in nature and in the universe. This is every moment you ever spent from your first breath to your last. This is that time you went out into the winter wonderland as a kid and thought, " I'm never going back, this is just too beautiful to part with." This is that moment you wrestled your rabbit-eared antenna on your thirteen-inch television in the years after your winter wanderings and ponderings.

You cannot hide from them. Do not try. Because they know. And they only want to set you free.

I ask you then, wouldn't you like to be free?

Great post, wish it was more popular several pages back. I can understand where you're coming from here, and feel very much the same way. Although we know nothing concrete about the album yet, the clues are leading very much into the darker corners of my heart, and I look forward to any awakening or illumination I can receive from it.

[thepastinsidepressant]

ah its just the yanks getting all dramatic weighing in there with their 2 cents lad. easily spotted.
my great grandad was from edinburgh too ya know [joke]

[In Technicolor]

By the way, I already have plans once I get the vinyl record to transfer it to tape using my old guitar teacher's Studer A80, if anyone wants a copy Ill send them one as long as they pay me back for the tape once it arrives.

Here is the planned signal path, none of this is my gear btw: Oracle Delphi --> OraclePH200 Preamp -->....--> Studer A80 @ 15 ips