• Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest

    June 12, 2013 - By 

    When you do something that is almost undefinable, how do you satisfy an intense demand for it? This is the situation Boards of Canada face on their new album, and it’s a testament to the cohesive creative vision the band have displayed over their career that they not only manage to meet the expectations, but in some cases exceed them. But for those who’ve been waiting for Tomorrow’s Harvest, there’s going to be a few surprises in store.   Regardless of how you came to the band – long-term fan, or just swept up in the hype – Tomorrow’s Harvest…

  • Boards Of Canada to stream new album today

    June 3, 2013 - By 

    A reminder that Scottish electronic duo Boards Of Canada will be streaming their new album Tomorrow’s Harvest over on their website tonight. The live stream of the group’s highly-anticipated new album represents a climax of all the internet hysteria to this point, which has so far included mysterious tweets from the band themselves, vinyl prints being sold on eBay for over $4,000, and several codes found on vinyl singles and internet messageboards. There was also a listening party streamed from a Californian waterpark last week, but unsurprisingly the feed didn’t last very long. You can see what all the fuss…

  • Classic Album: Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children

    May 3, 2013 - By 

    Having finally announced Tomorrow’s Harvest – the follow up to 2005’s magnficent The Campfire Headphase – Steven Edward Rainey casts his mind’s eye back fifteen years to revisit Edinburgh duo Boards of Canada’s landmark 1998, Warp-released debut album Music Has The Right To Children. _____ Gazing out at us, stand seven figures. Two are turned away, whilst the remainder are directly facing us. Against a mountain background, this sexless group of adults and children pose for a photograph, immune to the effects of time or geography, their faces rubbed away to reveal a smooth, featureless surface, betraying nothing. In a realistic…