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18. I Saw Through Platonia

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yamanogato wrote:
akirako wrote: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.


Yeah, totally!!! I'm bummed about Prometheus because the good bits are incredibly good and the bad bits didn't connect with me at all, but the ending definitely is part of the good bits and something I'd like to see more of in cinema.

Have you watched Beyond the Black Rainbow? It's a very BoC film imo!

Btw, is it yamanogato as in 山のgato? As in Iriomote wildcats maybe? It's a really cool username!!

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This sounds like the kind of track that usually opens their albums… except for the ominous heartbeat layered under it.

Does anyone know what the final computery sound is? Is it like a ZX Spectrum tape loading or something? A modem?

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just had my second listen through this track and let myself get tony soprano'd again at the end

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noveltywave wrote:This sounds like the kind of track that usually opens their albums… except for the ominous heartbeat layered under it.

Does anyone know what the final computery sound is? Is it like a ZX Spectrum tape loading or something? A modem?
According to BOCpages its a carrier signal. Although online I've read that it basically leads to nothing

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Thought about I Saw Drones when, well, I SAW it in the tracklist.

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underrated wonder of an outro that makes me think: Bocset is still real.
~If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or thïnk.~

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rd1994 wrote:
noveltywave wrote:This sounds like the kind of track that usually opens their albums… except for the ominous heartbeat layered under it.

Does anyone know what the final computery sound is? Is it like a ZX Spectrum tape loading or something? A modem?
According to BOCpages its a carrier signal. Although online I've read that it basically leads to nothing


Hopefully the 'leading to nothing' isn't an intentional metaphor - We need ONE more EP! :mrgreen:

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Gotta say this is my second favourite closer after 'Corsair' now
...what subtlety?

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