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Jun 10, 2013The consistent excellence of Tomorrow's Harvest is as comforting as a collection of quietly menacing android fever dreams like these could possibly be.
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Jun 11, 2013Where Music Has the Right seemed grounded in the real world (albeit a twisted recollection of such) and Geogaddi straddled the line between Star Wars and The Sandlot, Tomorrow’s Harvest finds the duo launching their sound into Lovecraftian orbit. And it sounds terrific.
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Jul 3, 2013It is chock-a-block with everything you have ever loved about the Boards over the last 15-some-odd years.
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Jun 11, 2013Tomorrow’s Harvest is as strong a return to form as it is stunning an update, with the Scottish duo refining their blend of nostalgic sonics and futuristic sheen.
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Jun 5, 2013Thankfully, they’ve saved their finest ideas for Tomorrow’s Harvest, which burns as brightly as anything they have accomplished thus far
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Jun 14, 2013There’s no twist ending here--just another excellent Boards Of Canada album.
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Jun 10, 2013While their latest transmission isn’t the easiest to receive, upon success, it can be the most rewarding piece of science fiction in years.
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Jun 5, 2013Boards of Canada have created a fascinating vision, one that will reveal more and more gifts over time.
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Jun 5, 2013These 17 vignettes glow with Cold War paranoia, picking up where Threads, the most scarring piece of TV ever made, left off. It might also be the duo’s most accomplished album yet--and that’s coming from someone unable to remove the Hi Scores LP from his stereo.
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Jun 11, 2013While Tomorrow's Harvest makes for a wonderful listen, and a perfect gateway album for new fans, it's not the revelation many devotees were hoping for.
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Jun 11, 2013Sandison and Eoin have produced an album that, in spite of its considerable runtime, is genuinely absorbing and convincing in its narrative sweep.
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Jun 11, 2013Any of these songs could have appeared at any point in the group's discography. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. A full-body massage, after all, is just as pleasing the fourth time as the first.
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MagnetJul 17, 2013Though it's easily the group's densest, most challenging release to date, Tomorrow's Harvest will likely gratify anyone willing to dig deep enough to reap its wonders. [No. 100, p.53]
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MojoJun 17, 2013It's vintage Boards Of Canada--a beautiful, shimmering, electronic maelstrom of liquid, vintage synths and slo-mo beats. [Jul 2013, p.82]
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Jun 6, 2013At times, it is a little overwhelming over the 17 tracks, but there are plenty of beautiful moments here, the sort of moments which continue to propel BOC well ahead of many of their IDM contemporaries.
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Jun 21, 2013Tomorrow’s Harvest, the duo’s latest, is a perfect reminder of how well these two can bring their unique aesthetic to life through music.
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Jul 8, 2013The moody synthesizer soundscapes of Tomorrow’s Harvest reveal their rewardingly intricate layers and details with repeated listens.
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Jun 11, 2013There’s a sense of purpose and forward motion on this record where old tracks had a feeling of circling in place until the tape eroded.
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Jun 10, 2013What we’re left with is Boards of Canada’s moodiest record, a full-length tinted with atmosphere that unfolds slowly and is happy to allow you to come to it.
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Jun 10, 2013Though demanding repeated listens, Tomorrow’s Harvest distinguishes itself by making intense commitment (e.g. What’s the better way to enjoy it, headphones or stereo, broken-up “side” listens on vinyl vs. one full immersive CD spin?) a welcome task for the summer of 2013.
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Jun 13, 2013It’s the duo’s most sinister and fascinating collection of songs, enrapturing the listener with dystopian soundscapes and frustrating arrangements.
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Q MagazineJul 10, 2013Tomorrow's Harvest delivers oceans of spare, mellow and melodic electronica, but what it doesn't offer is much in the way of surprises. [Aug 2013, p.98]
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Jun 11, 2013Even the most careful listener will be left wondering what it all means. Luckily, Boards Of Canada have laid out a riddle we won't tire of teasing out, embedded in a timeless sound unlike any other.
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Jun 11, 2013There's plenty of intellect on Tomorrow's Harvest but not nearly as much soul; like an intricate artifact found preserved in a glacier, this album is impressive to behold, but cold to the touch.
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Jun 13, 2013Their aural magic is as evocative as ever, and with their alchemical skills, they could well invent a fifth element, or more.
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Jun 10, 2013With Tomorrow's Harvest, the Sandisons' return feels natural. Rather than resort to hiring disco session musicians or citing Judith Butler to add a new kink to their sound, they've done something even rarer in the modern era: They’ve aged with grace.
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Jun 11, 2013Tomorrow’s Harvest is easily the Scottish duo’s most ghostly, bleak effort to date.
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Jun 5, 2013Far from daft, Tomorrow’s Harvest is a psycho-spiritual stormer.
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Jun 6, 2013Tomorrow's Harvest may not shout for your attention, but it certainly rewards it.
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Jun 10, 2013There is joy in these grooves; the attentive care of studio perfectionists, and the warm embrace of an old friend.
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Jun 6, 2013Though very few of the songs themselves outstay their welcome, Tomorrow’s Harvest as a whole can feel overly long, and it’s the short songs that are the problem--they feel like unnecessary padding in a record whose triumphs should have been allowed to stand tall and proud by themselves.
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Jun 10, 2013Tomorrow's Harvest is another intriguing Rorschach blot of a record from a splendidly arcane band.
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The WireJul 3, 2013Crackle and hiss are still in evidence, but the effect is toned down, and less suggestive of sonic patina than of the hostile climate of a world far removed from the languid, sun-dappled pools and rolling vistas suggested by 2005's The Campfire Headphase. [Jul 2013, p.53]
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Jun 11, 2013Where the dog-eared, snapshot ambient wooze of Twoism and Geogaddi once harbored a feverish throb, Tomorrow’s Harvest now prickles with hollow spaces: a fragmentary, pixelated symbolism has been lost in the construction of an outline of a broader system.
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Jun 11, 2013It might not be a major leap forward for Boards of Canada, but when the music continues to be so obviously them, maybe Tomorrow's Harvest doesn't need to be.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 108 out of 118
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Mixed: 5 out of 118
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Negative: 5 out of 118
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