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Generalchesty wrote:Image
One of the hard to identify images in the artwork is a phased array radar from a Patriot missile system


'Patriot uses an advanced aerial interceptor missile and high-performance radar systems...'

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June 10th. a year really flies by, huh?

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i-the-wayside wrote:June 10th. a year really flies by, huh?


Yeah, it's flown by. Scary.

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ha,ha Tomorrow's harvest ,is really awesome .

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I like it, but still haven't listened to it alot for some reason. I need to spin it sometime soon again.
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ha,ha Tomorrow's harvest ,is really awesome .

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It really, really is.

After a year of solid listening I can honestly say Tomorrow's Harvest one of the most satisfying and complete-sounding albums I've ever heard, and there's still so much intrigue and curiosity left that I'm constantly going back for more.

I'm an enormous fan of their older stuff, but BOC have really outdone even themselves on this album - completely and utterly worth every minute of anticipation.

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Does anyone else feel that the album's purpose lies in what society is building towards? The song titles suggest that nothing is infinite and all we aspire to in life is death. Jacquard Causeway resembles the reiteration of technology - our imperfect idea of perfectibility as we strive towards the impossibility of perfection. New Seeds restores some purpose in passing down the earth to our children - but they will only make the same mistakes and this chain can't work for eternity. Any way it can be interpreted, TH heavily deals with the fears the brothers have for their families.

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The Star-Wars looking thing in the TH artwork is a microwave horn antenna, used to transmit long-distance phone calls in the 80s. Here's a link if you're interested in some Cold War history with very TH vibes: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2009/07/cold-war-relic-att-long-lines-microwave-site-kingston-ny/
(Edit: In fact, now that I'm looking at the comparison, BoC used the same image, but flipped and darkened it)

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Generalchesty wrote:Image
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The Star-Wars looking thing in the TH artwork is a microwave horn antenna, used to transmit long-distance phone calls in the 80s. Here's a link if you're interested in some Cold War history with very TH vibes: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2009/07/cold-war-relic-att-long-lines-microwave-site-kingston-ny/
(Edit: In fact, now that I'm looking at the comparison, BoC used the same image, but flipped and darkened it)

Good catch.

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vballs wrote:Nearly one year on, ive been listening to it a lot lately, it keeps getting better. Its a master peice, absoloutly wonderful album. Thanks BoC


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Generalchesty wrote:The Star-Wars looking thing in the TH artwork is a microwave horn antenna, used to transmit long-distance phone calls in the 80s. Here's a link if you're interested in some Cold War history with very TH vibes: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2009/07/cold-war-relic-att-long-lines-microwave-site-kingston-ny/
(Edit: In fact, now that I'm looking at the comparison, BoC used the same image, but flipped and darkened it)


Thanks for sharing this! I've always wondered, what is this weirdly looking thing and why it fits so perfectly to the music.
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Generalchesty wrote:Image
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The Star-Wars looking thing in the TH artwork is a microwave horn antenna, used to transmit long-distance phone calls in the 80s. Here's a link if you're interested in some Cold War history with very TH vibes: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2009/07/cold-war-relic-att-long-lines-microwave-site-kingston-ny/
(Edit: In fact, now that I'm looking at the comparison, BoC used the same image, but flipped and darkened it)

Good catch. For some reason I have a feeling that it is important that the photo is a recent one, not one from that time period.
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Aerial Boundaries wrote:Good catch. For some reason I have a feeling that it is important that the photo is a recent one, not one from that time period.


Nah, Hexagon Sun are just a bunch of lazy fucks

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chenyuxun wrote::D
ha,ha Tomorrow's harvest ,is really awesome .

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It really, really is.

After a year of solid listening I can honestly say Tomorrow's Harvest one of the most satisfying and complete-sounding albums I've ever heard, and there's still so much intrigue and curiosity left that I'm constantly going back for more.

I'm an enormous fan of their older stuff, but BOC have really outdone even themselves on this album - completely and utterly worth every minute of anticipation.

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Aerial Boundaries wrote:Good catch. For some reason I have a feeling that it is important that the photo is a recent one, not one from that time period.


Nah, Hexagon Sun are just a bunch of lazy fucks

'Ok enough's enough. We've kept them waiting far too long.'

'But we've been on a beach sipping mojitos the entire time! What can we give them?'

*dusts off old mixtape made when they were 12*

'Could just use this. I mean they don't care as long as it's BOC, right?'

*simultaneously* 'Suckers...'
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Generalchesty wrote:Image
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The Star-Wars looking thing in the TH artwork is a microwave horn antenna, used to transmit long-distance phone calls in the 80s. Here's a link if you're interested in some Cold War history with very TH vibes: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2009/07/cold-war-relic-att-long-lines-microwave-site-kingston-ny/
(Edit: In fact, now that I'm looking at the comparison, BoC used the same image, but flipped and darkened it)

Nice one!

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Generalchesty wrote:Image
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The Star-Wars looking thing in the TH artwork is a microwave horn antenna, used to transmit long-distance phone calls in the 80s. Here's a link if you're interested in some Cold War history with very TH vibes: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2009/07/cold-war-relic-att-long-lines-microwave-site-kingston-ny/
(Edit: In fact, now that I'm looking at the comparison, BoC used the same image, but flipped and darkened it)

good find, man!

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guys I just realised that these weird radio noises, you might have noticed, often (always?) lead to message. you focus/force your ear to follow that particular sound, and it will make you able to notice much more details.
the easiest instance is Gemini, where you can hear a woman's voice, terryfied child, "we can make it". Just follow the radio.

Also occurs near the ending of the New Seeds - clear message I don't want to spoil for you.
Nothing is real is remarkable too.
when the poem starts, something starts to fly around your head, some kind of arpeggio, melody. It goes round from right to left, from left to right and leads you to the layer where you can hear more clearly the hidden speech/chattering which is near the end.
there are more situations where this theory works for me. Did it work for you too?
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noatakmoon wrote:I doubt they were going for honey bees when they made the cds like that... i was thinking of a nuclear warning sign..


I don't. The pollinators of the Earth are in a very precarious situation which will affect the entire food chain on Earth. Over 53% of the Earth's crops right now are GMO, the New Seeds. It has not been proven, yet, but the evidence is strong it's these New Seeds killing them off. However, I used the term nod because I don't think it's the only inspiration for the use of black and yellow. Caution, hazard, and poison are all very suitable meanings, as well, along with nuclear war. I just think this album is a lot about current affairs and their devastating effects on our future, along with being an expression of concern over things that haven't happened, like WWIII. Hence, a documentary.

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I'm actually find my self listening to TH, that the less I take seriously this album the more it enjoyable to me, it's like sliding thought all kind of madness, evil and dreams represented on TH, something like this, this one is from uncut article: "Boards Of Canada’s focus is, as ever, long-range and aesthetic: less on the actual devastation wrought by nuclear weapons, more on nebulous creep and on the terrible beauty of a mushroom cloud when observed from a relatively safe distance. It’s a potentially glib way of toying with signifiers: Armageddon as nature documentary."
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