I feel like I’ll return to sit with it way more than I wanted to with Tomorrow’s Harvest but I sense it’s maybe a little ephemeral. I can’t really remember any stand out moments. I was getting quite a Campfire Headphase vibe in places.
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A few people sobbing and meditating at the Phonica listening event apparently 
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Not sure it was THAT moving.
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Aww jeez, performative nonsense.
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Ok I’ve listened to it three times now and I’m loving it.
This is getting me right in the feels…
Yeah that’s right!
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yes…! this is the one! at midnight yday i saw that the LP was out, couldn’t resist to play just one track to fall asleep to, and it was this one. i was already drifting away when the 2mn45 mark arrived : instant huge smile on my face for the rest of the track. then proceeded to have the best sleep possible. what a treat, will remember that track and feeling for a while
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Feels like a cheeky little “we know you want to hear something familiar” track to me.
Lovely stuff.
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Made me want to dig this out…
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Down the rabbit hole now. This is a beaut…
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I’m loving the live instruments on this, getting a slight Daft Punkesque feeling in a good way too
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Okay can you lot get a room? 
Liking Ben’s new Lot outing.
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Actually quite like You Retreat in Time and Space as you were…
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on Ross’ show NTS
so good.
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Yes 
that was great. Was watching earlier.
Since Inferno arrived on Friday I have had it on a near constant loop, for me it is up there with their best work. They seemed to have taken aspects from all of their other albums and have concocted something even better than the sum of the parts. There are the vocal samples from MHTRTC, the darker psychedelia of Geogaddi, the live instrumentation from TCH and the world building from Tomorrow’s Harvest.
When first listening to Introit/Prophecy at 1420 Mhz a couple of weeks ago I thought it sounded good, but too clean with too much audio fidelity compared to their earlier work, listening to it in the context of the album it makes perfect sense. Over the course of BoC’s albums I’m reminded of how Stranger Things started as a perfectly contained first series, then got scaled up based on its overwhelming and unexpected level of success. However, where Stranger Things ultimately became bloated and lost sight of what originally made it so good, BoC have here managed to produce a high-fidelity arena version of their sound without losing their warmth and weirdness. Not that I could ever see how such two fiercely private brothers would allow this to happen, but I could imagine this working as a large tour utilising their equally strong visual work.
One thing the Guardian review did get right is that I can hear echoes of Tortoise in some of the live bass, it is interesting how BoC seem to have incorporated the sounds of other groups and have perfectly woven them into their sound. I can also hear The Cure in the guitars and Daft Punk in the key stabs of ‘Arena Americanada’ (maybe they might!) and the wah-wah guitar part in the gorgeous ‘You retreat in Time and Space’.
Hopefully they won’t make us wait another thirteen years for the next new stuff.
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Bang on.
Their sound has definitely evolved, yet it’s so brilliantly self-referential.
Easily AOTY for me so far.
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AOTY so far for me too, I wasn’t brave enough to put that out there on my own!
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1000 OHM sounding like a long lost Pet Shop Boys Dub
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perfect for a breezy afternoon repotting plants 
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