GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC

[ColdEarth7]

I dont know if this has been talked about yet, but they linked their instagram to their bandcamp. So I'd say the instagram is pretty much verified.

[ihmeauto]

If anyone has been following the news regarding a mysterious monolith found in Utah desert, another one has apparently appeared in Romania

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/11/utahs-2001-like-monolith-mysteriously-disappears/
https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/11/monolith-romania/

It's probably nothing but an art installation, but who knows if its part of an ARG again.

[Zephyr Method]

If anyone has been following the news regarding a mysterious monolith found in Utah desert, another one has apparently appeared in Romania

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/11/utahs-2001-like-monolith-mysteriously-disappears/
https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/11/monolith-romania/

It's probably nothing but an art installation, but who knows if its part of an ARG again.

No offense but this could be ANYTHING, I don't really think a BoC ARG is one of them.

[Ottomatik]

If anyone has been following the news regarding a mysterious monolith found in Utah desert, another one has apparently appeared in Romania

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/11/utahs-2001-like-monolith-mysteriously-disappears/
https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/11/monolith-romania/

It's probably nothing but an art installation, but who knows if its part of an ARG again.

No offense but this could be ANYTHING, I don't really think a BoC ARG is one of them.

It would be fun though. It fits with the space-themed album speculation going on, with the Pioneer plaque banner and these monoliths being obvious references to 2001.

[Sherbet Head]

That leaves the new smile Earth Catalog banner though. I'm pretty sure they didn't just make that for fun. There's probably a reason for it. Whether it be for BOC or not.

Maybe 'Earth Catalog' is the name of our long-awaited archival boxset?

Joking aside, it ties in with Catalog 3, but that could easily be coincidental.

[SamuraiDrifter]

I thought all the "hey this weird monolith means a new Boards of Canada album is coming" posts were jokes...

To seriously address that for just a moment: when the Tomorrow's Harvest ARG began, the code records had "Boards of Canada" prominently on the cover, and Warp confirmed they were legit almost immediately. It was essentially marketing as far as the label was concerned.

As relates to the Bandcamp though, it seems like they're gearing up to release something.

[Davism]

And they just uploaded the other albums too.

[Davism]

Also I gotta say: they created their bandcamp in the early part of the summer, right? Why wait to upload 4-5 months later, unless the timing is significant?

[♄ope keeper]

[~nick]

I don't know if this is of any significance, but WARP put up Autechre's material on Bandcamp before either the release of SIGN or PLUS.

I really, really hope this means something, but it could just boil down to things being a bit slow around there as they're going on about some "usual" business. Cautiously optimistic, nonetheless...

[Echelon]

i theorized earlier this year that they might have been digitalizing their archive and might upload it onto a site. That would be cool if they did that with bandcamp.

Pure wishful thinking though, but I feel if Hooper Bay or whatever showed up on there, this forum would crash haha

[Echelon]

That's honestly the kind of imagery I'd would envision they'd go for if this is truly a space-age album. Fits the whole Tomrrowland vibe, which coincidentally, was the image for Societas.

Donald Fagan did a good song about mankind's expectations of what the future would be like and how wrong they were. (IGY)

[debugDolores]

Looks like their official releases are all up on the Bandcamp page now

[debugDolores]

Also, have to wonder why they chose certain tracks to be featured. Magic Window is the featured track on Geogaddi and Collapse is the featured track on Tomorrow's Harvest. It's probably arbitrary, but I wonder if it has any significance.

[PerniciousKnid]

The bandcamp catalog upload just happened in real time - that is some progress right!?


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[writetomhatcher]

So this bandcamp update means we can confirm that the BOC Instagram is legit—the likes, the clap emojis, the music video posts. That is a hell of a good sign!

[SamuraiDrifter]

The Instagram page has been followed by PIC from Hexagon Sun since the beginning, so I never doubted it was legit - on a related note, anyone remotely into photography as an art form should follow him.

[Jango9]

Slightly odd how the release date they gave for Twoism on the bandcamp is the 2002 re-release rather than the original 1996 one, that could mean that they didn't consider the initial cassette launch an actual "release". Could also just be someone wanting to arrange all the releases so they form a pattern of short-long-short-long-etc., the world may never know.

[writetomhatcher]

Twoism 96 was not released on Warp, so that would account for them listing the repress date. I also noticed the short/long pattern (EPs on the left, LPs on the right), but that is probably less by design and more just the general pattern BOC have followed over the years.

[Sammy_P]

As relates to the Bandcamp though, it seems like they're gearing up to release something.

*cough* probably not
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/warp-records-comes-to-bandcamp