>>130603554
(putting this here for posterity since the old thread is probably gonna disappear fairly soon)

Yeah I don't necessarily think that it's literally a sample of a real explosion but in my mind that is what it's meant to evoke, more so than a car crash (which would be one or a few loud thuds only after a screech, not an entire minute of booms/thuds)

I know the Sean Booth quote has nothing to do with war (or cars..) but the rest of the album makes some vague war like allusions so I think it's more of a reasonable interpretation than a car crash, especially because why would a car crash be in the future? A few tracks prior we have John Hogue predicting the Antichrist via Nostradamus in a timeframe set far into the future (the Age of Capricorn is approx 3000-6000AD) and so in that future timeline there's a war, in my mind that makes sense

>>130603762
>spinning candles
we won....

You
BORE
my sin

>>130604364
i RECEIVE you..

>>130603898
im not letting you down bro

this is a good album to dress up as a woman to

>>130605689
thank you i love you

who up retreating they time and space

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Thread theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFNq9bxm_-Q

I think that's wonderful

>>130606409
Where is this from?

>>130606827
Family guy

>>130605713
based

I can't get enough of the chopped vocal sample on The Word Becomes Flesh
>soon a vig orously beat ing heart is pum ping blood throughout the com plex em bryo

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You retreat in time and space is so good I could weep

>>130606191
Fantastic song, and their best song title.

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now that the dust has settled, for you its?

Pit your top 3 songs from each album against each other, which win?

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>>130611703

>>130611703
Inferno is better on the whole, even though TH is pretty great in places. I think I would rather listen to overly maximalist BoC (that's not perfect) than the filler downtempo that TH mostly consists of

>>130611703
My opinion is that the highlights of Inferno are stronger than that of TH's, however, TH is still the better album for me as a whole though. TH doesn't really have any disappointing tracks for me, Inferno does.

TH is consistent, but nothing remarkable
Inferno has really high highs, but also really low lows.

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>>130611703
TH was so influenced by soundtracks that it needed a movie to be a soundtrack to.
Even if it was just some Koyaanisqatsi rip off, I still think it could have helped people connect to it more.

I mean there's the fan stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8ZBT-VHrA&list=PLQ1BVOQA6C2_qWPEyMewfb99SX3CgC_LF
but people were already over it at that point.

so sad that Marcus died :(

>>130612669
That's a smokescreen
Mike is the one who actually died and that's why a lot of the songs just fade out it's because he couldn't work on them anymore

>>130612868
Actually neither of them died, it is you who has died.
This is the Inferno. You are unable to die now.

All Reason Departs is like Nlogax

>>130611703
Love Inferno but TH is my most favourite album of theirs so nothing from Inferno beats my top 3 TH tracks

>>130614163
What are your top 3 TH tracks? mine are Nothing is Real, Palace Posy and Reach for the Dead

>>130614813
The same except come to dust in place of nothing is real, it's a true no skip album for me though it's hard to pick just 3

(lets try this again)

BOC peak chart positions update

Scotland - 2 (Inferno) X
Australia - 3 (Inferno) X
UK - 3 (Inferno) X
Belgium - 4 (Inferno) X
Germany - 4 (Inferno) X
Finland - 5 (Inferno) X
New Zealand - 5 (Inferno) X
Netherlands - 6 (Inferno) X
Ireland - 7 (Inferno & Tomorrow's Harvest) X
Switzerland - 7 (Inferno)
Norway - 9 (Tomorrow's Harvest)
United States - 13 (Tomorrow's Harvest)
Denmark - 13 (Inferno)
Canada - 18 (Inferno)
Japan - 27 (Tomorrow's Harvest)
Austria - 28 (Inferno)
Sweden - 30 (Inferno)
France - 35 (Inferno)
Italy - 64 (Tomorrow's Harvest)
Spain - 72 (Inferno)

New Zealand:
Naraka - 32 X
HHLL - 35 X
Father & Son - 38 X
Age of Capricorn - 39 X

X - final peak position, album has fallen 10+ positions in charts

>>130616418
BOC spotify stats update

1.62 mil listeners (new peak)

Inferno rankings (out of 105 total tracks)

Prophecy - 68
Introit - 82

>>130616418
grim

>>130616533
its really not, inferno out ranked all their past albums in most countries, and has beat virtually all peak positions from any "idm" artist ever in most countries as well

highest UK chart position for other IDM artists

808 State - 8 (ex:el)
Aphex Twin - 8 (Syro)
Four Tet - 34 (Sixteen Oceans)
Autechre - 41 (Sign)
Clark - 95 (Reachy Prints)
u-Ziq - 185 (Royal Astronomy)

hitting 3 for inferno is great

>>130616649
808 State weren't IDM, they were a Madchester club band that played house

>>130616733
thats why i put IDM in quotes, plus its already a flimsy term that doesnt mean much

I included 808 state because they are adjacent to the IDM "scene" and plenty of people listen to them as well, they are also one of the only other high charting groups so I included them for that reason as well, most strictly "idm" artists literally never chart at all

>>130616733
give me some more purely IDM artists you think qualify for the term and ill write out all their chart rankings and you'll see BOC are now the highest or about the highest charting idm and adjacent group basically ever

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You lied to me /mu/. What is this horseshit, labyrinth blood literally sounds like the theme music to Dexter. This quirky semen slurping shite isn’t for me

>>130617193
Cool bro

>>130616649
didn't even beat tomorrow's harvest in a lot of countries, couldn't take the #1 spot in their home region. poor showing for a supposed legendary act coming back after over a decade. sad to say the record flopped

>>130616800
pretty low bar there mate

>>130617448
>couldn't take the #1 spot in their home region
youre acting like hitting 2nd on the charts is bad

>>130617455
its not a low bar when the anon is saying their chart performance is "grim", its literally the best charting "idm" album of all time, no one is pretending idm is an insanely popular genre that everyone listens to, inferno did great

>>130617471
this is like bragging about a gold medal at the special olympics

>>130617533
>special olympics
Bad analogy anon, I only used regular charts, not indie/electronic/dance etc, so it's like bragging about getting gold at the regular olympics, special olympics would be the esoteric sub-charts which I ignore

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>>130617298

https://youtu.be/tXWmrl_mgZ0
this is what Inferno sounds like kek so fucking gay

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>>130603762
Deep Time/Tape 05 is so fucking good. Bit of a shame it segues into the track with the cheesiest sample that quickly degenerates into a "we have autechre at home" cut.

>>130619504
>anything with bleep bloops sounds like Autechre
Listen to more music

>>130619421
thought I was the only one who thought inferno sounded like neo 80s com truise tier schlop

>>130619504
It actually makes me laugh, going from Deep Time to "The great war must be fought" is such tonal whiplash, I can't hate it.

>>130619421
>>130619870
maybe some tracks can give that impression if you're not paying attention to the sounds and textures, sure.
HHLL is probably the closest to that but listen to the 3 minute mark and tell me any of those artist pull off that kind of shit

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>for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god
what did they mean by this?

>>130611703
TH is their weakest album imo and Inferno is shaping up to be one of their best.

>>130616649
To be fair, IDM is basically classic rock at this point. If a classic rock album by a band whose fans are universally autistic charts, that's wonderful, all numbers being the same.

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>The Process

Admittedly, my journey into the strange world of IDM, electronica and ambient music has not been a complex one. Whilst finding Aphex Twin, Burial, Squarepusher and the other entry level artists that pioneered these genres, I more than once tried to venture further out, and stumbled across the now classic Music Has the Right to Children by Scottish duo Boards of Canada. Deep fulfilling synths, trudging rhythms and precise vocal chops and samples, the album defines what they do best, and now, 13 years since Tomorrow’s Harvest, Boards of Canada are back with the dark and twisted Inferno.

Throughout the album, it’s easy to tell the duo want to say something, but honestly, it gets a bit tiring trying to understand exactly what that is. The entire album is filled with slow, heavy-stepping drum programs and drawn-out synths. Dissonant melodies keep this eerie energy, as if the listener will be doomed a few days later like some Japanese horror film. Everything feels slightly off, the album is in an uncanny valley of sound, and it quickly draws away any peace you might’ve had before clicking play. I can only assume, one would only make music so weirdly unnerving to put a message across, the chord progressions trigger a fight or flight reaction that feels like a warning, vocal chops of religious texts and medical documentaries start to chime in mid-way through the album, and it all just feels pointless, almost like the artists are laughing at the swarm of die-hard Redditors that are about to pull any sort of meaning out this random assortment of controversial sounding words.

The production, however, does feel like a winning point for Boards of Canada, they’re clearly veterans of their craft and there is real texture to each analogue synth sequence and crackly tape recording, but if you’re looking for some “roygbiv” nostalgic synth-wave vibes, you might want to skip this one before you get nightmares.

>>130622357
girl learn to condense no one is reading all of that

>>130622357
>>130622783
https://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/boards-canada-channel-dante-inferno-seem-even-more-lost

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>>130611703
Tomorrow's Harvest
>Jacquard Causeway, Cold Earth and Palace Posy
Inferno
>Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan and then the rest of the album cause there's so many to choose
Inferno wins

>>130622893
look at that cat. just look at it

>>130622953
He's sexy af in his tux

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>>130622248
is idm the prog rock of electronica?

Inferno is the inverse of Geogaddi. The singles are better than the interlude tracks, whereas Geogaddi's interludes are S tier and their singles are mid

>>130625455
thank god prog rock is not stupid fucking jungle beats and pretentious glitch farts all the time

>>130626912
not a fucking word in this is true