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Still Alive Edition.
----- INFERNO (LP5)
OUT NOW FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD.
>YOUTUBE OFFICIAL FULL ALBUM PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm67aHmN2wo&list=OLAK5uy_lljmZxsklD_9b kwH1M08MpA5SqAFuMJI8
----- REVIEWS
Positive:
>musicOMH
5/5
>The Herald
5/5
>God Is in the TV
9/10
>Under the Radar
9/10
>Northern Transmissions
9/10
>Beats Per Minute
9/10
>Clash
9/10
>Still Listening
9/10
>Uncut
9/10
>Pitchfork
8.6/10
>No Ripcord
8/10
>AllMusic
8/10
>Exclaim
8/10
>Rolling Stone
4/5
>Buzz Magazine
4/5
>Mojo
4/5
>The Skinny
4/5
>Paste
7.5/10
>Far Out Magazine
7/10
>The Needle Drop
6/10
>Resident Advisor
Recommends
>DJ Mag
Recommends
Negative:
>The Guardian
2/5
>Financial Times
2/5
>The Arts Desk
2/5
Share more reviews when they come out.
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>Part of me thinks Fantano's score has some politicking going on. He knew this album was already blowing up, and it's tracking to be their most listened to album of all time. If he rated it like a fucking 9 or something, it would actually hurt the popularity of the album because then it would be seen as overrated BECAUSE he likes it.
>I'm realizing that Fantano is a lot smarter than he's given credit for. He knows his influence is impactful enough to change the mythos of this band. His scoring preserves his integrity as a reviewer while also preserving Inferno's legacy as their most impactful album to date. Though it may seem counterintuitive to the average person, Fantano has simultaneously gatekept BoC and boosted their profile.
>Bravo, bald man.
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>>130519152
i never watched that guy, then i watched his youtube clip of listening to inferno and it was very cringe to see him picking random songs instead of the album continuously. now i feel good for never wasting time checking up that guy before. good for him for knowing what he doesn't like i guess. i really enjoy this album, if someone knows any other album with such great sound design that let's me feel like i'm in a trip please recommend, i'm a music nerd and this has been the most spectacular one by far in that regard
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Something I really like is how easy it is to interpret the songs and themes just by the song titles alone.
Like All Reason Departs, it is right there in the title, it's a song that starts out with form and melody and then it just devolves into a bare beat, it is literally losing its reasoning.
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>>130520031
I did not care for Blood in the Labyrinth much the first few times but now I think it's really cool, especially the vocal part.
The Process flew right over my head too, it's I guess more of an ambient piece than anything but I love how it goes from a riot to that beautiful piano with the vocal samples of children and what sounds like birds.
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>vocal samples of children and birds in ambient song
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>>130520031
Into the Magic Land specifically when I realized how incredible that breakdown is with its distant guitar feedback.
Blood in the Labyrinth as well really grew on me. Once the sample source was found, the track becomes so much more dark and emotional
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>>130520447
>Into the Magic Land
see that's the one track I haven't felt something for good and bad yet so that's encouraging. though my last few listens have been in the car so another try on headphones might work
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>>130519140
>putting the needle dick in the OP like it's a legitimate outlet
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>WHO CARES ABOUT FANTANO I DONT CARE ABOUT FANTANO LALALALALALALA CANT HEAR YOU AOTY AOTY
Lamo. The album sucks, give it some time, it will be the default opinion after the honeymoon phase. TH shits all over it and so does the rest of their discography.
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It was always gonna be too polarizing to hang with the big dogs.
Some people literally can't get over Father and Son. If you're a big BoC fan you've heard their Hell Interface stuff and the Doxa Sinistra song in Societas X and you get it, but random listeners... that song alone is enough for them to knock a point off.
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YRITAS was the actual closer, ISP leaves the door open. I feel like hexa-flexi is a similarly unresolved question. Now that they’ve finished their 5 album deal with warp, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get some smaller, more scattershot an experimental releases on music70 now that they’re not compelled to release entire albums. Or maybe I’m just chasing hopium breadcrumbs? Idk
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I'm pretty sure if they continue to make full length albums they'll still be on Warp. I don't think they'd be able to finance releases on a scale to fulfill demand on their own, plus Warp's marketing budget would always be helpful.
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>A chakra (/ˈtʃʌkrəˌˈtʃæk-ˌˈtʃɑːk-/;Sanskrit:चक्र, romanized:cakra, lit.'wheel, circle'; Pali: cakka) is a meditation-aid in the form of a psychic or psychospiritual energy-center in the subtle body, as visualized in a variety of Hindu and Buddhist tantric yoga and meditation practices.
>Medieval Buddhist texts from 8th century CE mention four or five chakras, while Hindu sources have various numbers.The best-known variant has seven chakras, as described in Sir John Woodroffe's 1919 book The Serpent Power, a rough translation of Pūrṇānanda Yati's Ṣaṭ-chakra-nirūpaṇa ("Explanation of the Six Chakras," 1577).
>Modern Western Occultism views chakras as actual though esoteric energy-centers. This view arose in the 1880s with H. P. Blavatsky and other Theosophists, and was subsequently shaped by Woodroffe's The Serpent Power, and Charles W. Leadbeater's 1927 book The Chakras. Psychological and other attributes, rainbow colours, and a wide range of correspondences with other systems such as alchemy, astrology, gemstones, homeopathy, Kabbalah and Tarot divination were added later.
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I have to say I really love this album. I love all of their albums though, so I guess it’s not too surprising. All of their albums feel legitimate, if that makes any sense. They’re not compromised. They’re all full-fledge Boards of Canada albums. It’s an impressive discography no matter how you rank it.
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probably wise to let people make their own interpretations of the album instead of hanging on the creator's words.
You kinda need to be insanely charismatic to say "fuck you make your own meaning" (ala David Lynch)
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>>130521483
This album easily has the most vocals on any BOC release. What more is there to be said?
Also a reminder that the guardian very obviously panned Inferno because they were bitter the didn’t get an interview like they did during the TH release cycle
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>official ASCAP credits drop, revealing Marcus Eoin wrote some, but not all, tracks on the record
>heart monitor noise throughout memory death
>you retreat in time and space sounds like a musical eulogy
>sudden stop of heartbeat rhythm on final track, I saw through Platonia
>Bonus track, Vol.4 - P. Primers - 177 Giraud's Mirror, features the following vocal sample: "You have just one life to live / Make it rich with what you give / To your brother / The greatest gift is the smile you give / To your brother"
He's really dead, isn't he??
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Guys, I think Inferno might be the most important album ever made by humans. I don't know how to handle this. I know there will be good albums and that there ARE good albums. This is just different though.
People say, "there are thousands of spoopy IDM artists making great albums out of their bedrooms so I'm not impressed."
Yeah, you don't get it. Those artists are cool and all, but they didn't make Inferno. BoC made Inferno.
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>all aboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_zffOenk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg
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https://youtu.be/3Awey7AbXT0?si=krjfNeeCMzGXcd-r&t=5
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>all aboard
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probably the process, something about that ending
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they've been on a spanish/latin kick since the early 2010s at least, in my mind it is reminiscent of the american south west in which theyve shot videos and many promotional photographs, including stuff for inferno and tomorrows harvest
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>the egg passes down the oviduct
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starting with confield I thought that era of autechre was strange but kinda interesting, but as I listened to the following albums it just got more nonsensical. I get why they do it but it was quite the departure from what they did in the 90s
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which is rapidly developing into a ma-ture organism
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I listened to the VHS track and Tape 05 probably 200 times since it dropped. I love the album, but it’s all downhill from here. What do I even do with my life now, bros? There’s nothing left to look forward to. April and May were so peak, and now it’s over
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Inferno is dark in a way an 80s horror film is dark, which is to say the themes they explore are dark but they do it in a fun way that makes for an enjoyable ride.
Tomorrow's Harvest was dark in the bleak way.
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>>130519140
>mfw Naraka starts playing
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Honestly, I think a lot of the darkness is very tongue-in-cheek. A lot of people have said the album is cheesy but to me it feels like a very intentional choice, especially after revisiting the Victrola track on the societas x tape. I would compare it less to 80s horror movies than I would to the nightrider theme, which was meant to be dark and serious but feels almost kitsch nowadays.
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They did briefly live in Canada as children
>From 1979 to 1980. I was eight years old and Marcus was a bit younger. Our father worked in construction. He helped to build the Saddle Dome in Calgary. There was a lot of work at that time in Canada so that's why we moved there.
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I GOT OUT OF THE SWIMMING POOL
AND I WATCHED HER
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How many god tier tracks per album do they have for you?
>MHTRTC - 7
An Eagle in Your Mind
Telephasic Workshop
Triangles & Rhombuses
Aquarius
Olson
Open the Light
Happy Cycling
>GEOGADDI - 10
Music is Math
Gyroscope
Sunshine Recorder
Julie and Candy
1969
The Beach At Redpoint
Alpha and Omega
Over The Horizon Radar
Dawn Chorus
You Could Feel The Sky
>TCH - 6
Satellite Anthem Icarus
Peacock Tail
Dayvan Cowboy
Constants Are Cahnging
Slow This Bird Down
Macquarie Ridge
>TH - 4
Reach for the Dead
Palace Posy
Nothing is Real
Come to Dust
>INFERNO - 6
Age of Capricorn
Father and Son
Naraka
Memory Death
The Word Becomes Flesh
Deep Time
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>MHTRTC - 4
Sixtyten, Turquoise Hexagon Sun, Roygbiv, Aquarius
>Geogaddi - 4
Music Is Math, Friendly Stranger, 1969, Dawn Chorus
>TCH - 1
Peacock Tail
>TH - 6
Reach for the Dead, Cold Earth, Sick Times, Palace Posy, Nothing is Real, Come to Dust
>Inferno - 5
Age of Capricorn, Father and Son, Into the Magic Land, Blood In The Labyrinth, Platonia
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No Roygbiv is an interesting take
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Platonia over like 3 other tracks is an interesting take
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4/5 in rolling stone too
https://archive.ph/amUfu
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like, 3 songs at best could be described as synthwave, more retarded than guardian faggot even
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There's a lot of really great tracks, but those are just my god tier ones for that album
I think Platonia serves as a pretty strong ending to the album, with the sudden stop of the heartbeat and electrical dissipating sound followed by 10 seconds of silence fairly obviously portraying death
its got a good balance of emotion, mysticism, and a bit of sadness or grief; the railroad signal bell, dissonant background notes, twinkling piano etc its just got a complex feeling
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Uhhhhh
>TWOISM - 3
Oirectine
Iced Cooly
Twoism
>CHILDREN - 7
Telephasic Workshop
Sixtyten
Turquoise Hexagon Sun
Kaini Industries
Roygbiv
Aquarius
Open the Light
>GEOGADDI - 5
Music is Math
Dandelion
1969
The Beach at Redpoint
Dawn Chorus
>CAMPFIRE - 4
Satellite Anthem Icarus
Peacock Tail
Hey Saturday Sun
Macquarie Ridge
>HARVEST - 6
Reach for the Dead
White Cyclosa
Jacquard Causeway
Cold Earth
Palace Posy
Nothing is Real
>INFERNO - 7
Prophecy at 1420 MHz
Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan
Memory Death
The Word Becomes Flesh
Into the Magic Land
Deep Time
Arena Americanada
>BONUS - 2
Amo Bishop Roden
Skyliner (I REALLY like Skyliner)
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Have you ever had a normal conversation in your lives? Someone asked if the visuals are available and someone responded where they are and what to expect. You’re too retarded for even 4chan
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I don't need to because I saw it when it was originally posted before it was taken down, recording was verboten so I'm not sure why you would expect some amazing 4k HD studio quality fucking bullshit when clearly you had to be extremely sneaky since you're sitting in a literal circle of fucking people
But you're too gay and retarded to comprehend that, just like the other faggot, without someone explaining it to you, expecting anything better quality is fucking stupid and shows you both have the mental capacity of a small malnourished child
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Can somebody that knows music theory explain why a repetitive track like "Sunshine Recorder" doesn't FEEL as repetitive and drab as a track like "Into the Magic Land"
It is every bit as repetitive and simplistic but for some reason Sunshine Recorder just scratches your brain, never gets boring during its duration. But a track like Magic Land just feels super formulaic.
Does it have to do with beat measures or something? or does it just come down to textures.
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I was a fan of Music has The Right To Children but I grew out of this band, I only like two or three songs from Campfire Headphase in the rest of their discography. I had a negative impression of this album rollout and the artwork and themes the titles suggested, but I gave the album a shot with an open mind and while there's a few elements I liked in some songs, none of them ultimately stuck the landing. The vocal cut-ups were deal-breakers in all cases, but the music underneath is at best only half there. I'm just not a fan of this type of music anymore.
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>I grew out of this band
Has this ever meant anything at all? or is it just a phrase thrown around by people that are wearing bands as fashion statements? What did you "grow" out of? The most mature, dry people you know are into the most banal music and lyrics imaginable, what does it mean to grow out of music? It means nothing, it's an empty statement.
Was it more important to let other people know you liked the band than privately enjoying the music for what it was? Is that why you "grew" out of it?
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>>130538777
>it ages the sound too much
MHTRTC is supposed to sound aged. The album sounds like some old VHS tape you find in your attic. It fits perfectly with the themes and aesthetic the album is going for.
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It's an extremely evocative album. It unlocked memories for me that I had hidden away deep inside my mind. Memories I haven't thought about for years and years. The melodies sound really simple, which plays into the nostalgic aspect of the album. The album is also very distinctive and unique. Nothing from other artists sound like it. The album also sounds very "human", yet it's an electronic album. Compare that to Autechre's music for example, and it sounds very computer, digital, machine like.
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>MHTRTC is supposed to sound aged
It's supposed to sound nostalgic for sure, but tracks with boomy bass like Sixtyten or Turquoise just makes me think of the exact era it was released in, not some vague ephemeral past, the way like "Olson" makes me feel, it sounds like the memory of a place but it doesn't sound dated itself. Same with "Nothing is Real" on TH, the song itself doesn't sound like the 2010s, it just sounds like a distant memory.
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I have never seen a candid photograph of either Mike or Marcus, ever. How fucking secluded are these guys? Do they literally live in a nice place out in the country somewhere and just never leave it? I figure with their weird obsessive fans there would for sure be one or two photos of them spotted in public but nope.
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There's the live performance pics I guess.
But yeah otherwise they are just highly secretive. Even Thomas Pynchon allowed himself to be filmed on tv as a joke once.
I did read someone say there was some pics of one of them at an art gallery but I've never seen them.
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>>130539142
iirc they live on two separate continents these days. One of them lives in either New Zealand or Japan.
I don't think they're that well known and relatively few photos of them have surfaced recently. They are in their 50s and probably look quite a bit different nowadays.
Protip: if/when you get famous, secrecy and seclusion is probably the right move. Just let the art speak for itself and go on with your business like a regular human being.
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Flopped
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Good
She clearly has one of those svelte bodies that grips you tightly when you enter.
I would like to rub my intact member up and down her beak as she licked my scrotum. Then take her and impregnate her. Then when she is pregnant, cream pie her every night while we listen to Peacock Tail on repeat
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KEK
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This fits with the spirit of SRNITF
>>130542558
Picrel only fits BITL and AA as a conception
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>>130542619
We are winning BoC brothers!
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>>130542771
It's just a synth, I see how you are taking that as a tire screech but that's based on nothing but it being a high pitched sound
Nothing about the song suggests cars or car crashes, especially with the literal explosions happening in the background of the entire track
You know what else screeches? Bombs and bombers, look at WW2 the planes were literally designed (and sometimes the bombs themselves as well) to screech loudly overhead or just before impact
It's clearly suggesting the environs of war, not a car accident
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>>130543093
Sure, and it's fine to interpret it that way but there's not much to actually suggest that's what is happening or intended
It makes a lot more sense to pair explosions with the screech of said explosive or the planes dropping them, versus bombs and a single car crash
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I don't think you can just hide the death of a regular person like that, bro. He isn't much of a public figure, but he also wasn't a poweful evil billionaire who could pay for everyone to hide his death for whatever reason.
You can just search for his public obituary or something.