Boards of Canada - 'Tomorrow's Harvest'

By Jacob Eckert

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It came as quite a surprise that, after eight years of inactivity, Boards of Canada suddenly announced that they were dropping a new record in 2013.Perhaps it’s even more surprising that despite this window of inactivity, their new release is just as astounding as anything they put out in their heyday.Fortunately, Tomorrow’s Harvest doesn’t simply feel like a recycling of BoC’s old material. Rather, it pushes the group into brand new territory, an area that’s very shadowed and even frightening at points. The record sounds like the soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic world, with its bleak atmospheres and alien noises absolutely begging the listener to experience the album in the dark, alienated from any signs of humanity.It’s hard to pick single songs as standouts on the record since it’s such a cohesive album experience, but Boards of Canada’s newest effort forces the listener to pray that the band doesn’t enter another period of hibernation anytime soon.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTg-q6Drt0