18. I Saw Through Platonia

[WATER_CAN-_-]

past tense

[Rex Reynolds]

Really like this one. Giving Blade Runner vibes. The heartbeat works for me too, lots of Pink Floyd has a subtle heartbeat behind it.

[WATER_CAN-_-]

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[IronMark]

I think it's their most upbeat sounding album closer since Magic Window (cause I always imagine circus music when it plays)

[mthrndr]

This one feels really old to me. Like they pulled it out of the archives and perhaps mastered it. It feels pre-twoism to me

[IronMark]

This one feels really old to me. Like they pulled it out of the archives and perhaps mastered it. It feels pre-twoism to me

I feel the pre-Twoism vibes strongest with Somewhere Right Now In The Future. Though, I have seen people speculate that Platonia has one of the old web loops in it.

[Rex Reynolds]

Ah, old sir Bob. The knight of the realm that renounced his freedom of Dublin over its association to a sketchy genocidal dictator... By that rational you'd think Saville alone would be enough for him to denounce his knighthood, besides the fact that the monarchs own genocidal ancestors decimated Geldof's homeland population to levels that it has never recovered from still to this day. He's a strange rebel that one.

Fun fact: When Geldof was offered the role of Pink he was in the back of a cab, He said that he thought PF were shit but took the role (obviously) Unbeknownst to Bob the cab driver was Roger Waters' brother in law & swiftly told Rog what he had said. The same Brother in law directed the video EP for The Final Cut album too.

[GUNBOUND]

My take and maybe the most unpopular opinion on this release:

Inferno sounds even better when you listen to it with the tracklist order reversed. Starting with Platonia and ending with Introit.

Just try It.

[akirako]

I think this is the most menacing sounding track on the album. It makes me imagine a pessimistic sci-fi/horror film with modified humans and huge laboratories that are clinically clean but creepy, and it having some sort of harrowing open-ended final scene.

[2020k]

I've talked with a lot of people who said that if the album ended with You Retreat... that they felt as of BOC were telling us they were done. But, it didn't, it ended with this track, and that its meaning feels like a big question mark.

[Scories]

Fear of death

[Decorah]

Man this has got to be their best album closer ev…(remembers Farewell Fire) oof not so fast!!

[sowhereareyouliving?]

Now you mention album closers - doesn't this seem like a concoction of all 4 to date? The woozy synths have a similar tone to One Very Important Thought, similar key to the Corsair drone, similar sort of pacing to Farewell Fire, and there's definitely the threatening staticy undertone of Semena. Could be deliberate given the Platonia reference

[Redd Panderson]

Now you mention album closers - doesn't this seem like a concoction of all 4 to date? The woozy synths have a similar tone to One Very Important Thought, similar key to the Corsair drone, similar sort of pacing to Farewell Fire, and there's definitely the threatening staticy undertone of Semena. Could be deliberate given the Platonia reference

I look forward to revisiting this one with that in mind. Sounds about right, very cool.

I fully understand the excitement for more BOC, and the prospect of an EP or some realization of the long-coveted BOCset seems closer than ever, but I think Inferno makes such a perfect close to the arc of their discography (of their mainline albums, at least).

I wasn't expecting this, but the morning after my first listen I felt a sense of peace. Like if they ended it here, I'd be perfectly content. That, and I was staring at the words "boards of canada" on my framed copy of In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country on the wall and they were just RADIATING a new energy to me. The roundness of the letters and the old familiarity of the name is now intermixed with oneiric memories of the fever dream that is Inferno and it's very hard to convey in words but it just feels like everything they've done was all pointing somewhere off the map, and Inferno was it

[Decorah]

I cannot get this track out of my head.

[mthrndr]

To everyone saying that this album is a goodbye because of I retreat...uh, that's not the last song guys. This one is, and it does NOT sound like an end to me lol.

[gestell]

This one's beautiful.

[yamanogato]

I think this is the most menacing sounding track on the album. It makes me imagine a pessimistic sci-fi/horror film with modified humans and huge laboratories that are clinically clean but creepy, and it having some sort of harrowing open-ended final scene.

I love this. Almost like the ending of Prometheus; the horror of some final twist is muted by a flash of cryogenic frost. The cruel non-ending all but implying another film to follow.

The heartbeat only ends because the buzz does, too.
The assurance that we will meet again in another life.

[Waterbagel]

just love the heartbeat. i really think they shed a bit of pretense with this record and got more interestingly direct, straightforward (just raw sitar, straight up bass guitar, the harp sounds on deep time...), and idk.. i just love it. really pays off

i like the Wildlife Analysis sort of sound in the pad

[GeoDose]

I think this is the most menacing sounding track on the album. It makes me imagine a pessimistic sci-fi/horror film with modified humans and huge laboratories that are clinically clean but creepy, and it having some sort of harrowing open-ended final scene.

Yeah, I get menacing from this one as well! And I love the heartbeat, it elevates the track so much.

And let's remember...
'Farewell Fire' was thought of as BoC's 'goodbye' back in 2005, and look were we are now!

Sure, they could be finished, but if one of this album's themes is 'expect the unexpected,' we can't draw any final conclusions just yet about what the brothers might be up to. I'm optimistic for one more release in the next few years!