17. You Retreat In Time And Space

[Waterbagel]

maybe one of the kids did it

[Den]

I feel this too right now. The second section sounds like the band on the cover of Societas X Tape playing a pastiche (as someone mentioned earlier) of a BOC song live. And it’s one of the less hi-fi sounding songs on the album, which accentuates the mixtape quality of Inferno. I’m just wanting to emphasis that there are aspects of this track - despite its explicit references to their sound - that is unlike anything they’ve ever released before. I’m still perplexed.

It also sounds like one of their older melodies remixed with a funk groove. There is something musically vulnerable and even funny - but where you’re laughing and crying at the same time - about its placement on the album.

[chromaphase]

This is probably my favorite track off the album, but I can't listen to it too much because every time I do, I start to tear up. Songs like that should be saved for very special occasions. It's such an immensely beautiful song, and it has such a classic BoC sound (somewhere between IABPOITC and TCH) that listening to it (and watching the fan made video with the dancing people) took me back to being a young teen discovering the band for the first time again. It's a great feeling listening to your favorite band for the first time again, and I'm grateful that this song was able to do that.

There's definitely an intense melancholy or bittersweetness behind it. It feels like a goodbye. If this is indeed their final album, then this would make an excellent swan song. It's a retrospective of who BoC is at their core and what made them a beloved musical act. It's placement on the album seems very deliberate, almost like a "life review" moment before the heartbeat ends in the next track.

[noveltywave]

It’s amazing how this makes everyone feel so sad, like they really hooked that “end of something” feeling.

Very obviously music library inspired, like something from the Societas X Tape.

[happy]

it reminds me of a hymn from my grandmother's funeral, no doubt for me those chord progressions invoking feelings of mourning are by design