14. All Reason Departs

[Seat of Consciousness]

1000% this is a deliberate homage to Autechre, especially given the track title "Somewhere Right Now in the Future" is a quote from Sean Booth talking about BoC. Really cool fusion of ae's styles as well, with a sort of elseq percussion and those slippery LP5/Chiastic melodies, all with a Boards of Canada spin, of course. The brothers are seemingly in a self-reflective mood regarding their own career, and I can see them throwing on an Autechre tribute given that it was Sean who signed them to Skam and gave them their first official release. (And it wouldn't be the first time Boards mimicked Autechre - Sean has mentioned that he has in his private possession a Boards cover of Chichli. Good lord, if there was one unobtainable track I'd love to hear...)

[Den]

1000% this is a deliberate homage to Autechre

The way the track morphs into a stripped down jam that plays for longer than one would expect does feel like a deliberate homage.

[Ellis island rejects]

Just realized with my headphones
How
Sick
This song is

[CDcaseMemories]

With the wide selection of samples regarding God, they chose a quote from Crowley… Keeping the Geogaddi energy going. I like their wide reaching meta conversation on religion. I can understand why some newer listeners may consider them to be satanic or similar.

[Wildfire]

especially given the track title "Somewhere Right Now in the Future" is a quote from Sean Booth talking about BoC.

Any idea what the context was here?

Ignore, found it....

"They're probably in the future somewhere worrying about why it isn't like the past."

- Sean Booth of Autechre when asked about Boards of Canada during a Twitch AMA on June 5, 2022

[sowhereareyouliving?]

Good grief, does this ever get under the skin. Absolute barnstormer / bubbler combo

[rd1994]

I don't there was a BOC track with that much bleep bloops before

not that I am complaining or anything

[Helios]

I *love* this track, sort of a jungle vibe and that bleepy melody that comes in is so damn good. Slightly bummed it didn't just continue - thought it was going to have a chaotic Alpha and Omega sort of finish. The strip-down is cool as hell, though.

[noveltywave]

I wish there was a 20 minute version of this that kept altering slightly all the way to the end.

[steeldancer-x]

I wish there was a 20 minute version of this that kept altering slightly all the way to the end.

Agreed. Next to Split your Infinities and Sick Times, the second half is the audible-equivalent of infinity.

Didn’t say it before but fucking love the jungle vibe in the beginning as well. Just wish it was a little longer! Hypnotic like Blood in the Labyrinth almosy

[Seat of Consciousness]

I wish there was a 20 minute version of this that kept altering slightly all the way to the end.

It's surprising that BoC doesn't have a song over 11 minutes since they are so good at locking into a jam and riffing on it in subtle and interesting ways. I guess it comes down to them not wanting to throw off the flow of their albums, but I just know that if they could drop some banger 20+ minute tracks if they wanted to. Maybe they could release something as a single or a 2 track EP (pleaseeeee)

[Cupz]

Anyone else getting kind of Fallout 2 vibes?

Love dancing to this track, it's so florpyglorpy.

[Soul_Slip]

Anyone else getting kind of Fallout 2 vibes?

Love dancing to this track, it's so florpyglorpy.

Ha yes, glad I am not the only one. Also getting Mark Snow/X-files vibes heavily in this one

[noveltywave]

The title of this track is really intriguing, especially when juxtaposed with the religous chants and prayers and the father trying to get his son out of a cult. And then next to HHLL and Deep Time. I wish I knew what it all meant!

[steeldancer-x]

Mmm. From the jungle to now.
Still can’t get over the mouse

[Waterbagel]

wow ok on my first listen or two i was NOT vibing with this song, but NOW i get it. wow this is great. this jam could go on forever

[steeldancer-x]

Okay figured out why I couldn’t get over the mouse and why I fucking love this tune: the second half is what you picture when you imagine “Dad” music

[TaoTapeTao]

Mmm. From the jungle to now.
Still can’t get over the mouse

Was the mouse sound confirmed?

[steeldancer-x]

Mmm. From the jungle to now.
Still can’t get over the mouse

Was the mouse sound confirmed?

Wouldn't say "confirmed" per se, but I definitely hear the springs of the click. Gotta trust the gut idk how but it sounds like they somehow got it to sound forward and backwards at the same time..... so cool

[Ectonaut]

I do not think the opening sample’s connection to Deep Time is coincidental. As a geologist by trade, the concept of Deep Time is part of my everyday intellectual landscape. Put simply, it refers to spans of time so vast that they lie beyond human comprehension.

While we can intuitively grasp the difference between days, months, or even a lifetime, we are fundamentally incapable of feeling how much longer two million years is than one million years. Rationally, we know that one is twice as long as the other, but we cannot truly comprehend the magnitude involved. The same limitation applies to the scales of atoms and galaxies: we understand them intellectually, but not intuitively.

To bridge this gap, we rely on analogies. For example, if Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history were compressed into a single 24-hour day, modern humans would appear only a few seconds before midnight. Such comparisons allow us to approach concepts that otherwise exceed the limits of human cognition.

For this reason, geologists do not measure Deep Time in seconds, minutes, or hours. Instead, we use units such as millions and billions of years (Ma and Ga), and divide Earth’s history into epochs, periods, eras, and eons. Eons—the largest divisions of geological time—span hundreds of millions to billions of years. Earth’s history is divided into four of them: the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic, tracing the story of our planet from its formation to the rise of complex life.

Aleister Crowley’s concept of Aeons is, of course, something entirely different. Yet when these two concepts are brought together, the opening sample becomes extraordinarily powerful. It evokes a transformation occurring on scales of time and change that lie beyond all human spatial and temporal comprehension. At that point, reason itself departs.

Added note; from geological perspective, BoC music output is a fairly rapid process .