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All Reason Departs

2026-06-21T21:43:25Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=All Reason Departs
| runtime=6:14
| appearson=[[Inferno]] (2026)}}

"[[All Reason Departs]]" is the fourteenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 0:28, a reading of a passage written by occultist [[wikipedia:Aleister_Crowley|Aleister Crowley]] from "[[wikipedia:Magick_(Book_4)|Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4]]" (Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter XII: Of the Bloody Sacrifice: and Matters Cognate), sampled from the 2005 documentary "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2748112/ Megiddo II: The New Age]".<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=0u-AChDp4aU|start=9148}}</ref><ref>https://genius.com/39985134</ref>
<blockquote>
There is a magical operation of maximum importance 
The Initiation of a New Aeon 
Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought 
This bloody sacrifice is the critical point of the World Ceremony of the Crowned and Conquering Child 
As lord of the Aeon 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==
* The glitching background noise that can be heard in "[[Deep Time]]" continues into the beginning of the track before fading.
* The melody starting at 1:12 is reminiscent of the melody in "[[Deep Time]]".

== Videos ==
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== Audio ==
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== See Also ==
* "[[Deep Time]]"

== External links ==

== References ==
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[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

Uritual

2026-06-21T21:41:13Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Uritual
| runtime=1:59
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* "[[Uritual]]" shares melodies with the subsequent track, "[[Nothing Is Real]]".
* The low drone throughout the track is possibly a sample of the sound of "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_sand singing sand dunes]", a phenomenon caused by wind blowing over sand dunes where the sand has certain specific properties, which can be heard in around 35 desert locations around the world. This fits with the desert related imagery used in the packaging and promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''. A clip of the sound of singing sand dunes, very similar to the drone in "[[Uritual]]", can be found [https://youtu.be/CnYeeYmT4tI?si=lra0UEKbKYbbiIdy here].

== Trivia ==
* In keeping with the palindromic nature of the album, "Uritual" is a reprise of sorts of "[[Jacquard Causeway]]", featuring one of the same synth motifs.
* In English, the prefix Ur- means "original" or "primitive."<ref>https://www.etymonline.com/word/ur-</ref>
* Ur was a Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur</ref>

== Videos ==
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== External links==

== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Tomorrow's Harvest tracks]]

Nothing Is Real

2026-06-21T21:40:18Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Nothing Is Real
| runtime=3:52
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*At 1:54 a distorted voice says:

<blockquote>

"Jesus, was it you indeed, 

to flirt unkindly with my greed, 

promising eternal life, 

when you knew it was not right, 

when you knew that what I'd need was willingness and comfort there?"</blockquote>

A version of the track with the voice isolated can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120200/http://sequoia.ax.lt/nothing-is-real.mp3 here].

Nothing is Real shares melodies with previous track "[[Uritual]]".

1:12 - "Thank you" or something familiar is being spoken in female voice.

Towards the end of the track, fading in at the 2:56 mark, a distorted, echoed and possibly back-masked conversation can be heard. It is distorted to such an extent as to be completely unintelligible but is still a noticeable and potent part of the final mix.

== Trivia ==
* The title may be a reference to the Beatles' song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', which contains the line 'Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about', this may be relevant, as in interviews the Sandison brothers have expressed a strong interest in the Beatles' psychedelic works, Strawberry Fields Forever being one of their most psychedelic; a sample of Strawberry Fields Forever can also allegedly be heard in the song Kid For Today.
* It may also be a reference to nihilism, as the brothers also expressed they had "become a lot more nihilistic over the years".<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic</ref>
*In the very beginning of the song, a sound clip from the song "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]" can heard for several seconds.
*This song was used in a documentary about the boxer Edwin Valero.<ref>https://youtu.be/6TXLUcBU2QY</ref>

== Videos ==
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== External links==

== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Tomorrow's Harvest tracks]]

Jacquard Causeway

2026-06-21T21:39:16Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Jacquard Causeway
| runtime=6:35
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* So first of all, it's a difficult song because it feels like it's in 3/2 time (though it has been suggested that it is basically in 4/4 (double-time), with kick on 4.5, snare on 3. The 3/2 feel is just a lazy superimposed polyrhythm). This is far from common in electronic music. You have to relax the part of your brain that's used to 4/4 time and just let the electro-waltz flow through you.
* Now, when you listen past the beat, you'll hear loops, but they're different by just a little bit on each measure, with new patterns coming into play as old ones leave. In many ways, it's very much like a loom, with the start of new patterns entering into the threading as the completion of old patterns winds its way out. In the end, you've basically gone through a tapestry of music. Technically speaking, the melodies were probably passed through an electronic delay that repeats every bar and fades out slowly over the course of many bars.
* Certainly the Jacquard mentioned is the loom-maker; he's one of the first people to make a program of any kind, and a machine that could use arbitrary programs to affect actions in reality. That's an amazing step forward for humanity and certainly paved the way for the development of stored-program computers. Without this critical insight in some way or another, we might have been stuck on analog patch computation for a long time. I think it would have happened without Jacquard, for sure, but nevertheless, he was first, and so we should know his name.
* The causeway is therefore his; and the causeway is a perfect choice of words because the 'cause' at the beginning implies that there's a reason for it to exist, a starting point if you will, without saying anything about the end of it. They could have said "superhighway" ala the Information Superhighway that people sometimes call the Internet, but the Internet is merely an output of the causeway we're on as a species: the progress of technological development. Also, it sounds better; BoC doesn't like to hit you with a hammer, subtlety is their game.
I think the song weaves the themes of technological development like a loom.
* Early in the song, it's a simple synth rhythm (that really harkens back to ''[[A Few Old Tunes]]'' style simplicity); this is the loom, and the barest indication of possibilities. As the song proceeds, new layers come in, some hopeful, some melancholic, some that sound almost weary, like a person burdened by a load. They fit together rhythmically like clockwork, with different periods lining up with each other at common denominations, furthering the automation theme.
* At around 3:50 or so we start to pick up on some newer-style BoC themes, particular musical keys we've heard before in their work. A sense of contentment and ease comes over the song, reducing the tension from before. If we extend the historical metaphor, could this be an age when technology was reducing work with no obvious downsides, a "golden age"?
* Eventually, the beat dies away, and we're left with one of the most hopeful sounds on the entire album. In my view, this is BoC's comment on the promise of technology, not necessarily on the reality of it (as the album certainly gets darker from there).
* Narratively, this track implies a thawing of the earth after a nuclear ice age as presented in "[[White Cyclosa]]", and the beginnings of a new civilization, who perhaps later evolve or mutate due to the environmental radiation, notably with psionic powers, as presented in "[[Telepath]]".

== Samples / Lyrics ==

== Trivia ==
* The title likely refers to the Jacquard loom, a loom created in the early 19th century that used punchcards to control the loom's individual strings. As such, it is an extremely early example of binary programming. These cards would later be the inspiration for IBM's early mainframe punchcards.
* The initials of the title, "JC" , could be a reference to Jesus Christ, an initialism in the same style of "Satanic" from the track SATellite ANthem ICarus.
* Jacquard may also refer to [[wikipedia:Albert Jacquard|Albert Jacquard]], a geneticist well known for defending the concept of 'degrowth'. 'Degrowthists' aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community. Jacquard also took a strong stand against commercial use of the human genome in the 1990s.
* [[wikipedia:Giant's_Causeway|Giant's Causeway]] is the name of an irish coastline consisting of hexagonal basalt columns.
* A [[wikipedia:Causeway|causeway]] is a road or railway route across a broad body of water or wetland raised up on an embankment.
* The way the track makes use of [[wikipedia:counterpoint|counterpoint]] for the melodies seems to be a nod to the counterpoint work of [[wikipedia:Steve Reich|Steve Reich]]. The way that Steve Reich structures his counterpoint pieces is nearly identical to Jacquard Causeway: an element, phrase, or melody is presented and played through once, at first at a higher volume than the rest. Eventually, the new element decreases in volume, blending in with the rest, which effectively makes room for a new element. Eventually, all the smaller, melodic enemies layered on top of each other create new, "unintended" melodies. For an example, see Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint - Slow" in the videos section below.

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== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Tomorrow's Harvest tracks]]

Telepath

2026-06-21T21:38:08Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Telepath
| runtime=1:32
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Telepathy is the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. It was a major field of research for scientists during the early 20th century and into the Cold War. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy</ref> Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the '30s.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQEmLUlDXz0C</ref>

* The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect <ref>[[wikipedia|Microwave_auditory_effect]]</ref>, which was a facet of telepathy research during the Cold War. This auditory phenomenon was used to transmit sounds directly from a microwave emitter into the human brain. Researchers described that the auditory distortions inherent to this process caused "the sounds [to resemble] those emitted by persons with an artificial voice box." <ref> D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.</ref>
*When played backward, the voice counting in the track can be heard to say "This is (is) the end of the Earth.. for now."
* Narratively, in sticking with the theme of cycles on the album, this track follows the evolution or mutation of a new civilization on Earth following the thawing of the planet from an artificial nuclear ice age ("[[White Cyclosa]]", who also fail (or "[[Collapse]]") due to an ice-age, as presented in "[[Cold Earth]]", the next track on the album. This implies cycles operating at multiple scales, that of the death-rebirth cycle of civilizations, and perhaps that of individual humans as in some other religious or spiritual beliefs, of cyclical weather patterns, and of the civilization itself, which was born out of an ice age ("[[Jacquard Causeway]]") and died from an ice age ("[[Cold Earth]]").

== Samples / Lyrics ==

0:04 "Testing. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. (oops) Up and down, quite a thing [while I'm counting?]."
(background) six, six, nine.

0:20: (Second voice) "On repeat. Give me a count." (also sounds like "you can't")

0:23 "The stuff that they know, the one on the right and then turn it up, while I'm counting. One... three, four, fi-ive, six, seven, eight, through ni- (garbled)"

0:43: (Second voice) "It's too loud." (Pitched down) "Plaid."

0:45 "Well, this is quite pleasant. Let's play it back and see what it sounds like."

(Second and third voice) "Could I get the one voice?", "Nervous!", "Don't be nervous."

"One, two, three, four, fi-ive, six, six, seven."

* After the last number you can hear a quiet "listen" (same as in "Reach for the Dead").

== Trivia ==
* In one sequence, the number six is repeated in the background, the result sounding more like "666".
* [[wikipedia:Madonna|Madonna]]'s "[[wikipedia:Live to Tell|Live to Tell]]" intro at .75x sounds like "[[Telepath]]".<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=ZmE-fC9ZEBg}}</ref>

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== External links==
* https://www.madonna.com/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna

== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Tomorrow's Harvest tracks]]

Palace Posy

2026-06-21T21:36:48Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Palace Posy
| runtime=4:05
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* "Palace Posy" is an anagram of "Apocalypse".<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=206690#206690</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*The song samples the word "eleven" from the 1970s WTCN-TV jingle.<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=211327#211327</ref>
*Voices can be heard in the background from 1:07 to 2:07

== Trivia ==

* A palace is the official residence of a sovereign, archbishop, bishop, or other exalted person. The word derives from the Latin palatium, from Palatium, the Palatine Hill in Rome where the emperors' residences were built.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace</ref>
* A posy is a brief sentiment, motto, or legend. Alternatively it is a word for a flower or bouquet of flowers. During the Plague, posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posy</ref>
** “Ring a Ring o’ Roses” is a folksong and singing game that was first published in 1881 in England. Although first published in 1881 only, it is believed that the tune of the song was well known at least one hundred years before as well. A very similar German nursery rhyme and singing game was already published in the 18th century. There is a theory that the lyrics would depict the Great Plague, but this was proved to be unfounded, as this claim originated in the 20th century and was based upon the modern version of the lyrics, not the original ones.<ref>https://allnurseryrhymes.com/ring-a-ring-o-roses/</ref><blockquote>Ring a ring o’ roses A pocketful of posies a-tishoo, a-tishoo We all fall down.</blockquote>
* The Posy Palace was a florist shop at [[wikipedia:Hertfordshire|Hertfordshire]] in the [[wikipedia:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]. It is no longer in business.<ref>http://www.theposypalace.co.uk/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Posy-Palace-Walkern/112436605435591</ref>
* Posies became popular fashion accessories and have been known as tussie-mussies since the reign of Queen-Empress Victoria<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosegay</ref> the first British sovereign to take residence at Buckingham Palace.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace#Home_of_the_monarch</ref> As well, the British Empire was known by the name "the empire on which the sun never sets."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_empire_on_which_the_sun_never_sets</ref>

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== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
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Split Your Infinities

2026-06-21T21:35:21Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Split Your Infinities
| runtime=4:28
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Contains a slowed down and distorted sample of a video about purported FEMA Concentration Camps.<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=208665#208665</ref><ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=208758#208758</ref><ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=g0mVD1t_wfg|width=275|height=275|start=2669}}</ref>
** The full quote is as follows, beginning at 1:45 in the song:
<blockquote>"The FEMA plans to imprison American citizens have generated a lot of interest around the country, in locating the potential prison camps throughout the country. These may be facilities currently being used as prisons such as those you saw earlier, or prisons that are being built supposedly in the name of the war on drugs. Or, facilities that have other uses but could quickly be used to detain large numbers of people, such as this Amtrak facility in Beech Grove, Indiana. 
We're standing now in the main parking lot, which doesn't look too sinister. At this level it is a very large parking lot, fenced on all sides by fence topped by barbed wire. It also has these electronically operated turnstiles. There is also a surveillance camera just like we saw at the FEMA facility, pointing out to the parking lot, and a helicopter windsock. 
All of these apparent security measures are particularly unusual here, because this is a very low-crime area and this facility is nothing but an old train repair station with nothing in it worth stealing."| [https://youtu.be/g0mVD1t_wfg "FEMA Camp Footage (America Under Siege)"]|44:29</blockquote>
* Word "imagine" hidden among the drums (starts around 2:19, repeated untill end)
* Contains a sample of a MCA ViceoDisc bumper<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id= eRhs70SWc2c|width=275|height=275}}</ref>, discovered by twoism.org user mechanismj<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10776&start=120</ref>
** This bumper samples library music track ''Syndicate'' by Tom Elliot <ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id= OyNM0cpenvQ|width=275|height=275}}</ref>
* The track title may be a reference to the work of [[wikipedia:Georg Cantor|Georg Cantor]], who introduced the idea of treating "infinity" as a mathematical entity, one that could be split into any number of sub-infinities; an "infinity of infinities". This work established Set Theory, which is considered a foundational system for the whole of mathematics. [[BoC]] have extensively used mathematical ideas in their work and it is, of course, mathematical understanding and insight that powers much of the modern world, including technology. Given the mythos of the album, there appears to be a sense of caution in this idea. A limitless "splitting of infinity" can imply a harmful positive feedback cycle where an adverse change leads to worsening adverse change, such as deleterious climate change (notably runaway greenhouse effect inducing global warming), disease spreading and epidemics, a nuclear fission reaction (as used in nuclear bombs), overpopulation and overconsumption, etc.

== Trivia ==
* A [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/split+infinitive split infinitive] is a verb form where an element like an adverb is placed between ''to'' and the infinitive form of a verb. The most famous example of a split infinitive is perhaps the line "...to boldly go" from Star Trek.
* "[[wikipedia:Split Infinity|Split Infinity]]" is a science fiction book by [[wikipedia:Piers Anthony|Piers Anthony]] set on a technologically decadent world.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Split-Infinity-Apprentice-Adept-Book/dp/0345354915</ref>

== Videos ==
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== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
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Come To Dust

2026-06-21T21:33:58Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Come To Dust
| runtime=4:07
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* In an interview with The Guardian, [[Sandison]] said that "[[Come To Dust]]" "is a musical reprise of "[[Reach For The Dead]]".<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* The intro of the track features a reversed and extremely slowed down sample of the choral piece "[[Wikipedia:Miserere_(Allegri)|Miserere mei, Deus]]".<ref> {{#widget:YouTube|id=H3v9unphfi0|start=98}} </ref> It is heavily obscured by the prominent synthesizer on the track, however, this can be removed by phase-inverting one of the stereo channels and then combining them to mono. The exact recording of "[[Wikipedia:Miserere_(Allegri)|Miserere mei, Deus]]" that [[Boards of Canada]] sampled is unknown. This sample was discovered by [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] user personman.

== Trivia ==
* The title is likely a reference to the funeral song from Act IV, scene 2 of [[wikipedia:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]]'s "[[wikipedia:Cymbeline|Cymbeline]]".
<blockquote>
Fear no more the heat o' the sun, 
Nor the furious winter's rages; 
Thou thy worldly task hast done, 
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages: 
Golden lads and girls all must, 
As chimney-sweepers, '''come to dust'''. 
 
Fear no more the frown o’ the great, 
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke; 
Care no more to clothe and eat; 
To thee the reed is as the oak: 
The sceptre, learning, physic, must 
All follow this, and come to dust. 
 
Fear no more the lightning-flash, 
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone; 
Fear not slander, censure rash; 
Thou hast finish’d joy and moan: 
All lovers young, all lovers must 
Consign to thee, and come to dust. <ref>http://www.bartleby.com/70/4642.html</ref> 

</blockquote>

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== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
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Cold Earth

2026-06-17T09:13:25Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Cold Earth
| runtime=3:42
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* "[[Cold Earth]]" could be a reference to a book of the same name by Sarah Moss. In the book, a group of archaeologists visits a medieval dig site in Greenland. They become isolated as a plague pandemic sweeps across the planet, and communication with the outside world breaks down.
* Narratively, this track follows the dying out of civilization as presented on "[[Telepath]]". In sustaining the theme of cycles on the album, the following track, "[[Transmisiones Ferox]]" presents a collage of radio transmissions, perhaps from another new upstart civilization, or even disparate clusters of survivors who only have radios to communicate with each other, mirroring the "aggressive" or "fierce" ("ferox") transmissions as presented in this track.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* [[Mike|Sandison]]: "We're definitely vintage hardware freaks. We've always used older gear. Everything we use is decrepit. Our studio is full of wooden things covered with red LEDs. We'll go to great lengths to get hold of a specific instrument just to get a particular sound. For example, there's a sound in Cold Earth that is something like only one second of audio. It comes from an obscure old effect unit that cost us a lot of time and road miles to source, and it ended up being one second of audio on the record."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic</ref>

== Trivia ==
* "[[Cold Earth]]" was first aired at the [[Tomorrow's Harvest#Movements Electronic Festival|Movements festival]] in Detroit (2013-05-26). It was part of the [[Tomorrow's Harvest#Viral Marketing|viral marketing campaign]] in anticipation of the release of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130716010936/http://www.nme.com/news/boards-of-canada/70527 http://www.nme.com/news/boards-of-canada/70527]</ref>

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== External links==
* https://movementfestival.com

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Telepath

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| name=Telepath
| runtime=1:32
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Telepathy is the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. It was a major field of research for scientists during the early 20th century and into the Cold War. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy</ref> Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the '30s.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQEmLUlDXz0C</ref>

* The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect <ref>[[wikipedia|Microwave_auditory_effect]]</ref>, which was a facet of telepathy research during the Cold War. This auditory phenomenon was used to transmit sounds directly from a microwave emitter into the human brain. Researchers described that the auditory distortions inherent to this process caused "the sounds [to resemble] those emitted by persons with an artificial voice box." <ref> D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.</ref>
*When played backward, the voice counting in the track can be heard to say "This is (is) the end of the Earth.. for now."
* Narratively, in sticking with the theme of cycles on the album, this track follows the evolution or mutation of a new civilization on Earth following the thawing of the planet from an artificial nuclear ice age ("[[White Cyclosa]]", who also fail (or "[[Collapse]]") due to an ice-age, as presented in "[[Cold Earth]]", the next track on the album. This implies cycles operating at multiple scales, that of the death-rebirth cycle of civilizations, and perhaps that of individual humans as in some other religious or spiritual beliefs, of cyclical weather patterns, and of the civilization itself, which was born out of an ice age ("[[Jacquard Causeway]]") and died from an ice age ("[[Cold Earth]]").

== Samples / Lyrics ==

0:04 "Testing. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. (oops) Up and down, quite a thing [while I'm counting?]."
(background) six, six, nine.

0:20: (Second voice) "On repeat. Give me a count." (also sounds like "you can't")

0:23 "The stuff that they know, the one on the right and then turn it up, while I'm counting. One... three, four, fi-ive, six, seven, eight, through ni- (garbled)"

0:43: (Second voice) "It's too loud." (Pitched down) "Plaid."

0:45 "Well, this is quite pleasant. Let's play it back and see what it sounds like."

(Second and third voice) "Could I get the one voice?", "Nervous!", "Don't be nervous."

"One, two, three, four, fi-ive, six, six, seven."

* After the last number you can hear a quiet "listen" (same as in "Reach for the Dead").

== Trivia ==
* In one sequence, the number six is repeated in the background, the result sounding more like "666".
* [[wikipedia:Madonna|Madonna]]'s "[[wikipedia:Live to Tell|Live to Tell]]" intro at .75x sounds like "[[Telepath]]".<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=ZmE-fC9ZEBg}}</ref>

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* https://www.madonna.com/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna

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Jacquard Causeway

2026-06-17T09:10:58Z

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| name=Jacquard Causeway
| runtime=6:35
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* So first of all, it's a difficult song because it feels like it's in 3/2 time (though it has been suggested that it is basically in 4/4 (double-time), with kick on 4.5, snare on 3. The 3/2 feel is just a lazy superimposed polyrhythm). This is far from common in electronic music. You have to relax the part of your brain that's used to 4/4 time and just let the electro-waltz flow through you.
* Now, when you listen past the beat, you'll hear loops, but they're different by just a little bit on each measure, with new patterns coming into play as old ones leave. In many ways, it's very much like a loom, with the start of new patterns entering into the threading as the completion of old patterns winds its way out. In the end, you've basically gone through a tapestry of music. Technically speaking, the melodies were probably passed through an electronic delay that repeats every bar and fades out slowly over the course of many bars.
* Certainly the Jacquard mentioned is the loom-maker; he's one of the first people to make a program of any kind, and a machine that could use arbitrary programs to affect actions in reality. That's an amazing step forward for humanity and certainly paved the way for the development of stored-program computers. Without this critical insight in some way or another, we might have been stuck on analog patch computation for a long time. I think it would have happened without Jacquard, for sure, but nevertheless, he was first, and so we should know his name.
* The causeway is therefore his; and the causeway is a perfect choice of words because the 'cause' at the beginning implies that there's a reason for it to exist, a starting point if you will, without saying anything about the end of it. They could have said "superhighway" ala the Information Superhighway that people sometimes call the Internet, but the Internet is merely an output of the causeway we're on as a species: the progress of technological development. Also, it sounds better; BoC doesn't like to hit you with a hammer, subtlety is their game.
I think the song weaves the themes of technological development like a loom.
* Early in the song, it's a simple synth rhythm (that really harkens back to ''[[A Few Old Tunes]]'' style simplicity); this is the loom, and the barest indication of possibilities. As the song proceeds, new layers come in, some hopeful, some melancholic, some that sound almost weary, like a person burdened by a load. They fit together rhythmically like clockwork, with different periods lining up with each other at common denominations, furthering the automation theme.
* At around 3:50 or so we start to pick up on some newer-style BoC themes, particular musical keys we've heard before in their work. A sense of contentment and ease comes over the song, reducing the tension from before. If we extend the historical metaphor, could this be an age when technology was reducing work with no obvious downsides, a "golden age"?
* Eventually, the beat dies away, and we're left with one of the most hopeful sounds on the entire album. In my view, this is BoC's comment on the promise of technology, not necessarily on the reality of it (as the album certainly gets darker from there).
* Narratively, this track implies a thawing of the earth after a nuclear ice age as presented in "[[White Cyclosa]]", and the beginnings of a new civilization, who perhaps later evolve or mutate due to the environmental radiation, notably with psionic powers, as presented in "[[Telepath]]".

== Samples / Lyrics ==

== Trivia ==
* The title likely refers to the Jacquard loom, a loom created in the early 19th century that used punchcards to control the loom's individual strings. As such, it is an extremely early example of binary programming. These cards would later be the inspiration for IBM's early mainframe punchcards.
* The initials of the title, "JC" , could be a reference to Jesus Christ, an initialism in the same style of "Satanic" from the track SATellite ANthem ICarus.
* Jacquard may also refer to [[wikipedia:Albert Jacquard|Albert Jacquard]], a geneticist well known for defending the concept of 'degrowth'. 'Degrowthists' aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community. Jacquard also took a strong stand against commercial use of the human genome in the 1990s.
* [[wikipedia:Giant's_Causeway|Giant's Causeway]] is the name of an irish coastline consisting of hexagonal basalt columns.
* A [[wikipedia:Causeway|causeway]] is a road or railway route across a broad body of water or wetland raised up on an embankment.
* The way the track makes use of [[wikipedia:counterpoint|counterpoint]] for the melodies seems to be a nod to the counterpoint work of [[wikipedia:Steve Reich|Steve Reich]]. The way that Steve Reich structures his counterpoint pieces is nearly identical to Jacquard Causeway: an element, phrase, or melody is presented and played through once, at first at a higher volume than the rest. Eventually, the new element decreases in volume, blending in with the rest, which effectively makes room for a new element. Eventually, all the smaller, melodic enemies layered on top of each other create new, "unintended" melodies. For an example, see Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint - Slow" in the videos section below.

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White Cyclosa

2026-06-17T09:10:08Z

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| name=White Cyclosa
| runtime=3:13
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* "[[White Cyclosa]]" is highly reminiscent of, and possibly a homage to, music from the film Day of the Dead (1985). Suggested comparison - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwHQltabnxU the opening sequence of "The Dead Suite" on the soundtrack album, credited to John Harrison.]

* There seems to be a direct connection between "[[White Cyclosa]]" and the ending of the 1982 animated film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague_Dogs_(film) The Plague Dogs] - as if [[Boards of Canada]] wrote the track as an alternative score for this segment of the film. This is most apparent as the helicopter in pursuit of the two dogs flies directly overhead (synchronizing flawlessly with the helicopter sample in the track's intro). The finding is illustrated below in a YouTube video uploaded by [https://www.youtube.com/user/KensDreaming KensDreaming].

* Narratively, following the implied nuclear apocalypse presented in "[[Reach For The Dead]]", this track may refer to a nuclear winter, a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. In essence, an artificial ice age where the Earth is completely covered in endless, or cyclical white sheets of snow and ice. Following this, [[Jacquard Causeway]] may imply the thawing of the planet, revealing rocks and causeways underneath, and the new upstart civilization using sophisticated technology (a jacquard loom).

* In the Stargate SG-1 episode called "Beneath the Surface" (S04E10, September 2000) the musical melody at the 11m46s mark is identical to that played in White Cyclosa at the 00m38s mark.<ref> https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vhp9e </ref> Coincidentally, this episode deals with a supposed impending ice age, where a working class of people is subjugated into underground living by an elite class under the pretense of a hostile environment in the surface.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* The sound of a large helicopter's blades whirring plays throughout most of the track.

== Trivia ==
* Cyclosa is a genus of spiders that create webs with linear decorations and which heavily incorporate the remains of their prey and other debris, likely serving to camouflage them. The species Cyclosa tremula is black and white colored and crafts decoys from the remains of its prey, which it imitates by vibrating its body to appear grey when disturbed. Another species, Cyclosa argenteoalba, may become infected with the parasitic larva of the wasp Reclinervellus nielseni, which forces the spider to build a web before eating the spider and using the web to complete its metamorphosis. The name of the genus, Cyclosa, is derived from the Greek "to move in a circle." While most orb-web spiders face downwards in their web, some (including argentoalba) face upwards.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclosa]
* A [http://ghostbikes.org/ Ghost Bike] is a bicycle painted all white and welded upright in place to memorialize the spot a local cyclist was killed by obtuse traffic, to promote bicyclist commuter awareness and safety. (christ.’s 2007 album was titled [https://christmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bike “bike”])

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Reach For The Dead

2026-06-17T09:09:18Z

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| cover=Reach for the Dead.jpg
| label=Warp
| catno=WARPDD257A
| release_date=23 May 2026
| format=Digital
| runtime=4:47}}
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| name=Reach For The Dead
| runtime=4:47
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* [http://www.twoism.org/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1374 donacidae]: "I've transcribed "[[Reach For The Dead]]" so you can all enjoy playing on the piano / guitar / whatever. http://bit.ly/12zkS0g" <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10648</ref>

* A recurring motif throughout the song shares melodic similarities with the theme in the movie Zombie, albeit much slower. This may be intentional, as the score for the film was done by Fabio Frizzi and the band has specifically cited his work among others as influences towards the sound and production of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''.

* At the end of the official music video, the Sun is seen splitting into three distinct Suns, creating a 'trinity' of Suns.
** Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the [[Wikipedia:Manhattan Project|Manhattan Project]] in the New Mexico desert. In the video, we see sweeping images of desert landscapes and abandoned, dilapidated residential structures with the implied meaning of a post-nuclear landscape. Overall, this fits with themes of technological sophistication, apocalypse, and self-destruction revisited on the album.
** Trinity may also refer to the Christian concept of God as three entities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Indeed, prayer or ritual is a way in which the living practice communication with the dead, implying they are ''reaching for the dead''. In Christianity, prayer is often started with performing the Sign of the Cross on oneself and conjuring God as the Holy Trinity; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In some Indigenous North American cultures, deceased ancestors are viewed as venerated peoples, sometimes Gods, or in communication with God. This implies ancestor worship, which ties into the themes and aesthetics of the album, with tracks such as "[[Uritual]]" (ur-ritual, or "primitive ritual"), "[[New Seeds]]" (planted by ancestors, or the work of previous generations), and "[[Semena Mertvykh]]" (seeds of the dead).
** The process of the Sun itself is a massive fusion reaction, which can be viewed as a ''reversal'' of a fission reaction, typical of nuclear bombs. The idea of reversal is a theme [[Boards of Canada]] has explored across its discography.
** Initially, the Sun only splits into two Suns, perhaps again referring to the Twins, Gemini, or [[Boards of Canada]] themselves. The third Sun fades in soon after between the two, which may be symbolic of the creation of new matter via fusion reactions, a typical process of a sun. If taken to represent humans in general, the appearance of the third Sun may symbolically represent a barrier between the two 'Suns' or humans, of their impending calamity if they do not work together for fruitful accomplishments.
* Narratively, this track presents a nuclear apocalypse, followed from "[[Gemini]]" (which heralded the apocalypse), and followed by "[[White Cyclosa]]" which implies a nuclear winter.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* At 03:23, a male voice says "Listen" or possibly "Risen."
** If the sample is "Risen", that would play into the Christianity motifs in the music video, especially around the Holy Trinity, where Jesus, as God on Earth, rose from the dead. Indeed, the whole album thematically deals with cycles. This may be of civilization, each rising from the dead of previous civilizations. For example, the final two tracks on the album imply this, "[[Come To Dust]]" immediately followed by "[[Semena Mertvykh]]" (seeds of the dead). Or, it may be implying that each new civilisation, although bringing new hope, continues to make the same mistakes as previous ones, thus they are merely resurrections of prior civilisations that have failed. That we are cyclically doomed to repeat our failures.

== Trivia ==
* "[[Reach For The Dead]]" was released as a single in anticipation of the ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' release. It was given in advance as an MP3 download to those who pre-ordered ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''. <ref>https://bleep.com/release/43515-boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest#description</ref> It was also part of the [[Tomorrow's Harvest#Viral Marketing|viral marketing campaign]]. The "[[Reach For The Dead]]" [[Videos#Reach For The Dead|video]] was originally aired in [[Tomorrow's_Harvest#Shibuya-ku_Tokyo|Tokyo]], and the following day, the full song was played on [[Tomorrow's_Harvest#Zane_Lowe|BBC Radio 1]] followed by its reveal on the official [[Boards of Canada]] website.
* Unseen footage was shown @ [https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/a-warp-happening A Warp Happening] (2025-06-14).<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuB4O_yfp68</ref>

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Gemini

2026-06-17T09:08:01Z

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| name=Gemini
| runtime=2:56
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=616 Skytree] observed the following:
** "[[Gemini]]": track one
** "[[Gemini]]": May 21 - June 20
** Dredging up of the subconscious mind.
** This past weekend saw the last of three eclipses of 2013 (until the Fall), ending in "[[Gemini]]".
** [[Music Has The Right To Children]]: "[[Aquarius]]". Both "[[Aquarius]]" and "[[Gemini]]" are air signs.
** Much of [[BoC]]'s video imagery involves flying through the air.
** -- end transmission -- <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=198078#198078</ref>
* I read a review (sorry, someone else needs to edit this post to properly cite the reference) noting that Gemini is twins, and suggesting that separation (or invisible, maybe inevitable) connections might be recurring ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' theme. (e.g., "[[Split Your Infinities]]", [http://www.brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/loci1.php?site=coil08 Last Rites Of Spring/"Twin gods of death at the end of the tunnel"], Beckett's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Trio_(play) Ghost Trio], Virgil's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid#Themes Aeneid], & Dante's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy#Thematic_concerUzns Divine Comedy])
**Many others' comments focus on palindromes, suggesting cycles in the tracks' sequence.
* The track, and therefore the album begins with a short trumpet vignette. In the Bible, the Book of Revelation says that the end of times - the apocalypse - would be heralded by seven angels sounding seven trumpets. This fits in with the themes and motifs of the album, in particular the apocalypse, as the 7-note opening trumpet vignette is immediately followed by 7 distinct string chords.
* Narratively, this track may be heralding an impending apocalypse, which is presented by "[[Reach For The Dead]]".
* [https://forum.watmm.com/topic/83658-tomorrows-harvest-today/?p=2573936 Embers] observed the following quote: "''From the Twins come less laborious callings and a more agreeable way of life, provided by varied song and voices of harmonious tone, slender pipes, the melodies inborn in strings and the words fitted thereto: those so endowed find even work a pleasure. They would banish the arms of war, the trumpet's call, and the gloom of old age: theirs is a life of ease and unfading youth spent in the arms of love. They also discover paths to the skies, complete a survey of the heavens with numbers and measurements, and outstrip the flight of the stars: nature yields to their genius, which it serves in all things. So many are the accomplishments of which the Twins are fruitful.''" - Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD), a Roman poet and astrologer, said of the Gemini twins in his poem ''Astronomica''.
** Astronomica itself is a hexameter didactic poem.
*** The number 6 and its associated symbolism (primarily, hexagons) is a recurring item in [[Boards of Canada]]'s music.
*** ''Didactic'' refers to something that is "intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive." - ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' could be interpreted as didactic, commentating on how our current behaviors affect ourselves, and our environment and inform our future (direct instruction/teaching), but also providing an opportunity for self-reflection, reparations, and a path to salvation (moral instruction - "a more agreeable way of life", "banish the arms of war", "life of ease...in the arms of love").
** Specific sub-quotes can be said to refer to the [[Boards of Canada]]'s themselves, imagery of flying or other representations of air, cycles, technological sophistication, destruction, life, death, apocalypse, etc.
*** "''...laborious callings...''" - a direct reference to the album's title. A call to action. Work that must be performed soon. Something that must happen in the future. Something that must be faced in the future. Tomorrow's Harvest. Ties in with the sense of "something impending" oft used to described the album, even by the brother's themselves in an interview.
*** "''...less laborious callings and a more agreeable way of life...''" - the quote indicates that the Twins call for an easement in work, or hardship, and a better way of living. This ties back into the moral instruction of the album. The only way to prevent our future suffering is to better ourselves in the present, to unburden ourselves from potential hardship. We can change the future by changing the present, that we do not need to walk the path of self-destruction.
*** "''...provided by varied song and voices of harmonious tone, slender pipes, the melodies inborn in strings and the words fitted thereto...''" - a direct reference to the music.
**** After the trumpet vignette (which itself is a signal of the coming apocalypse, as said in the Bible's Book of Revelation), the body of the track Gemini fades in with strings.
**** ''slender pipes and melodies'' - woodwind, particularly flute-esque melodies, are a recurring theme in BoC's music.
**** ''words fitted thereto'' - the album heavily features both subtle and non-subtle samples of human spoken word, Gemini included.
*** "''...the gloom of old age...''" - the emphasis on the old age being a negative ties in with the moral instruction to change for the better, that something has changed or will [have to] change for the better. The transition from the old age to the new age, from darkness to light, that something is not the end but the beginning. This further ties in with the theme of cycles on the album. This is perhaps reflected in the track Gemini by the swirling, oscillating noise that backs the intense striking of chords. The album itself goes through 5 cycles of birth>death>rebirth and can be correlated to the 4 sides of the vinyl edition.
**** Side A: Gemini (the call for better living) > Jacquard Causeway (an uneasy, perhaps perilous time or journey)
**** Side B: Telepath (a new kind of life) > Collapse (destruction)
**** Side C: Palace Posy (a very indigenous beat in this track, almost tribal/primitive, represents the dawn of a new society) > Sundown (coming of darkness)
**** Side D: New Seeds (a new beginning, a new era, a new society) > Come To Dust (to die), followed by Semena Mertvykh ("Seeds of the Dead" - a new society emerges from the ashes) which cycles back onto the first track, Gemini.
*** "''...unfading youth...''" - BoC often touch on nostalgia, most often tied to sensory experiences that occurred in our youth, and directly ties in with BoC's style and sound. In the context of the quote, it implies a positive: direct instruction to be carefree, to live well and happily. However, on Tomorrow's Harvest, it is commentary that we are negatively tied to the past, and the moral instruction to better ourselves is to unhinge from the past and instead look forward to where we are headed. The duality of this interpretation, not only a reference to the duality of the Gemini twins, but also highlights the tension between where we currently are at, and where we should be. That tension is change, specifically and how society often oscillates (cycles) between change and resistance to change.
*** "''...discover paths to the skies...''" - reflective of the album's imagery, particularly the music video for "Reach for the Dead" which features scenes of flying through the sky, the air, the sign of Gemini. But also implies a level of technological sophistication, as a human requires understanding and invention of tools to fly. It is interpreted that technology may be our downfall, that it may outstrip our control, causing a catastrophic event. The album is littered with reference to understanding and technology, from the radioactive yellow on the vinyl (nuclear technologies requires understanding of matter), to the idea of a harvest (a human development that requires understanding of agriculture and associated technologies). Perhaps the idea is that which brings us so much ease and knowledge, that which identifies us as human - our ability to craft and use tools - can also undo us. Not an original idea for the album, but a common one used in all sorts of media that touches on catastrophic/apocalyptic failings of humans.
*** "''...complete a survey of the heavens with numbers and measurements...''" - a call back to BoC's earlier work that was heavily laden with references to mathematical concepts (numbers and measurements). A meta-reference that BoC themselves have yet again changed their sound on Tomorrow's Harvest. It may be BoC saying they as people have changed ("We've become more nihilistic", as quoted in an interview), an implicit example that people can change. The idea of surveying and measurement also ties back into the previous line of thought of technological sophistication and building knowledge. But can also be abstracted into the idea of surveying and measuring how things are, to make an assessment and to make changes for the better.
*** "''...outstrip the flight of the stars...''" - still following the line of thought on technological sophistication.
*** "''...nature yields to their genius, which it serves in all things.''" - commentary on the ubiquity and pervasiveness of technology in nature. That their genius (their technology, their ability to manipulate their surroundings with said technology) serves all things (complete control of nature). But when we are so in control of our environment, what do we do with all that power? That is the core question presented on Tomorrow's Harvest- and we can be destructive or fruitful. This is the ultimate moral consideration presented here.
*** "''So many are the accomplishments of which the Twins are fruitful.''" - the ultimate direct instruction. We should use what we control have for the better, to be fruitful, and for all to prosper without war, but in peace and love. To not live in the old age, but move into a new age. To live a more agreeable way of life.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
At 2:52 you can hear in the left channel the words "Does anybody copy me?" followed by "Roger" at 2:55. It becomes more recognizable and played 25% slower.

== Trivia ==
* Gemini was an American spaceflight program from 1962-1966. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_program]

* Gemini is a subcritical nuclear test project run by The National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA). The NNSA runs the U.S. nuclear warhead program. [http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/WSLF%20Issue%20Update--Subcritical%20Tests%20Fall%202012.pdf]

* Gemini (♊) is also the third astrological sign in the [[wikipedia:Zodiac|Zodiac]]. Gemini were twin brothers, and therefore, could be a symbolic reference to the Sandison brothers themselves, even though they are not identical.

* Gemini can be also a direct reference to Gemini Films, a film production, and distributor. [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0003571/] The duo already made a small reference to them, when they sampled the ending of the 1982 adult film titled "A Brief Affair" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123570/] on [[One Very Important Thought]]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhAOFIEJR0k]

* In Ancient Greek mythology Gemini are Castor and Pollux[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux], twin gods who are associated with Venus in its role as the morning and the evening star, and whose attestation dates back to an earlier reconstructed Indo-European myth of the Divine Twins,[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_twins] who are descendants of the Sky-God Dyēus and brothers/consorts/rescuers to the Dawn. They are responsible for carrying the sun through the sky each day and are said to rescue mortals from peril in battle and at sea.

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All Reason Departs

2026-06-17T09:05:42Z

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The Word Becomes Flesh

2026-06-17T09:04:15Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Word Becomes Flesh
| runtime=5:20
| appearson=[[Inferno]] (2026)}}

"[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" is the tenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

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== Comments ==
* The track title is a direct biblical reference to [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:14&version=NIV verse 1:14] of the Gospel of John:
<blockquote>"The Word became Flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the on and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."</blockquote>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
The source of the speech is sampled from [https://archive.org/details/introductiontodevelopment Introduction to Development], a 1983 educational film by Vuke, George J. Using time-lapse, close-up photography, and illustrations, this work documents the developmental processes of an amphibian and a bird, covering stages from the fertilized egg to the formation of critical anatomical structures like the nervous system, gut, circulatory system, and heart.

<blockquote>
The head of the embryo grows forward and the gut elongates rearward 
The neural folds meet in the brain region, but do fuse 
At this stage, four pairs of somites, blocks of mesodermal tissue, have formed 
(''Remarkable development of the embryo in more detail'') 
As the head of the embryo grows forward 
The head fold further undercuts its anterior end 
(''If we open a fertilized egg that has just been laid, we see the yolk'') 
The neural folds fuse to form new sets 
—terior end develops into a three-part brain 
(''These rope-like strands, called the chalazae, help to hold the yolk in position'') 
Early structures of the eye are now prominent 
Meanwhile 
(''The egg passes down the oviduct'') 
The embryo develops in an equally exciting manner 
In this later stage, a small embryo is already visible 
(''These rope-like strands, called the chalazae'') 
As a light-colored disk 
(''Called the blastoderm'') 
(''The blastoderm, the central part of—'') 
Soon, blood vessels appear outside the embryo 
The heart develops and begins to beat 
(''By repeated cell divisions while the egg— called the chalazae'') 
The pattern of blood vessels over the egg expands 
Supplying the embryo with food and oxygen and removing waste 
(''Cell division continues and is restricted to the blastoderm'') 
As the embryo grows, brain, eyes, and other structures develop 
(''The extensive yolk of the egg does not divide'') 
Soon, a vigorously beating heart is pumping blood throughout the complex embryo 
Which is rapidly developing into a mature organism 
(''The cells move from both sides of the midline'') 
(''A long thickened area called the primitive streak'') 
Part of the blastoderm, the area pellucida, is translucent because it is over a liquid 
And the white of the egg 
—pands, vessels over the yolk expands 
Some of the albumen becomes thickened and twisted as the egg passes down the oviduct 
(''The central part of—'') 
These rope-like strands, called the chalazae, help to hold the cells in position 
The blastoderm at this stage consists of many cells produced by repeated cell divisions 
While the egg was still within the organism 
(''The blastoderm, the area pellucida'') 
(''The central part of—, will completely surround the—, filled cavity'') 
(''Eyes, the midline, stage, develop'') 
(''The head of the embryo grows forward and the gut elongates'') 
(''Visible, the neural folds meet'') 
(''The outer portion, the area opaca, is opaque'') 
(''The cells move from both sides of the midline'') 
(''A long thickened area called the primitive streak'') 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==
* The track was used in the end credits of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26657236/ Backrooms] by [[wikipedia:Kane Parsons|Kane Parsons]], a film based on the [[wikipedia:Backrooms (web series)|web series]] and [[wikipedia:The Backrooms|creepypasta]] of the same name.<ref>[https://stereogum.com/2500808/backrooms-end-credits-song-is-from-boards-of-canadas-new-album "''Backrooms'' End Credits Song Is From Boards Of Canada’s New Album"], Margaret Farrell, Stereogum, 2026</ref> Parsons cites [[Boards of Canada|the duo]] as one of his influences for the film's score.<ref>[https://www.gq.com/story/backrooms-director-kane-parsons-influences "''Backrooms'' Director Kane Parsons on the Games, Shows, and YouTubers That Shaped Him"], Zack Hauptman, GQ, 2026</ref>
** Notably, ''[[Inferno]]'' and the film were released on the same day: May 29th, 2026. How [[wikipedia:A24|A24]] received early access to the track is unknown.

== Videos ==
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== Audio ==
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== See Also ==

== External links ==

== References ==
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[[Category:Released tracks]]
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All Reason Departs

2026-06-09T22:35:25Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=All Reason Departs
| runtime=6:14
| appearson=[[Inferno]] (2026)}}

"[[All Reason Departs]]" is the fourteenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 0:28, a reading of a passage written by occultist [[wikipedia:Aleister_Crowley|Aleister Crowley]] from "[[wikipedia:Magick_(Book_4)|Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4]]" (Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter XII: Of the Bloody Sacrifice: and Matters Cognate), sampled from the 2005 documentary "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2748112/ Megiddo II: The New Age]".<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=0u-AChDp4aU|start=9148}}</ref><ref>https://genius.com/39985134</ref>
<blockquote>
There is a magical operation of maximum importance 
The Initiation of a New Aeon 
Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought 
This bloody sacrifice is the critical point of the World Ceremony of the Crowned and Conquering Child 
As lord of the Aeon 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==
* The glitching background noise that can be heard in "[[Deep Time]]" continues into the beginning of the track before fading.
* The melody starting at 1:12 is reminiscent of the melody in "[[Deep Time]]".

== Videos ==
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== Audio ==
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== External links ==

== References ==
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[[Category:Released tracks]]
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The Word Becomes Flesh

2026-06-09T22:30:44Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Word Becomes Flesh
| runtime=5:20
| appearson=[[Inferno]] (2026)}}
"[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" is the tenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

__TOC__

== Comments ==
* The track title is a direct biblical reference to [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:14&version=NIV verse 1:14] of the Gospel of John:
<blockquote>"The Word became Flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the on and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."</blockquote>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
The source of the speech is sampled from Introduction to Development,<ref>https://archive.org/details/introductiontodevelopment</ref> a 1983 educational film by Vuke, George J. Using time-lapse, close-up photography, and illustrations, this work documents the developmental processes of an amphibian and a bird, covering stages from the fertilized egg to the formation of critical anatomical structures like the nervous system, gut, circulatory system, and heart.

<blockquote>
The head of the embryo grows forward and the gut elongates rearward 
The neural folds meet in the brain region, but do fuse 
At this stage, four pairs of somites, blocks of mesodermal tissue, have formed 
(''Remarkable development of the embryo in more detail'') 
As the head of the embryo grows forward 
The head fold further undercuts its anterior end 
(''If we open a fertilized egg that has just been laid, we see the yolk'') 
The neural folds fuse to form new sets 
—terior end develops into a three-part brain 
(''These rope-like strands, called the chalazae, help to hold the yolk in position'') 
Early structures of the eye are now prominent 
Meanwhile 
(''The egg passes down the oviduct'') 
The embryo develops in an equally exciting manner 
In this later stage, a small embryo is already visible 
(''These rope-like strands, called the chalazae'') 
As a light-colored disk 
(''Called the blastoderm'') 
(''The blastoderm, the central part of—'') 
Soon, blood vessels appear outside the embryo 
The heart develops and begins to beat 
(''By repeated cell divisions while the egg— called the chalazae'') 
The pattern of blood vessels over the egg expands 
Supplying the embryo with food and oxygen and removing waste 
(''Cell division continues and is restricted to the blastoderm'') 
As the embryo grows, brain, eyes, and other structures develop 
(''The extensive yolk of the egg does not divide'') 
Soon, a vigorously beating heart is pumping blood throughout the complex embryo 
Which is rapidly developing into a mature organism 
(''The cells move from both sides of the midline'') 
(''A long thickened area called the primitive streak'') 
Part of the blastoderm, the area pellucida, is translucent because it is over a liquid 
And the white of the egg 
—pands, vessels over the yolk expands 
Some of the albumen becomes thickened and twisted as the egg passes down the oviduct 
(''The central part of—'') 
These rope-like strands, called the chalazae, help to hold the cells in position 
The blastoderm at this stage consists of many cells produced by repeated cell divisions 
While the egg was still within the organism 
(''The blastoderm, the area pellucida'') 
(''The central part of—, will completely surround the—, filled cavity'') 
(''Eyes, the midline, stage, develop'') 
(''The head of the embryo grows forward and the gut elongates'') 
(''Visible, the neural folds meet'') 
(''The outer portion, the area opaca, is opaque'') 
(''The cells move from both sides of the midline'') 
(''A long thickened area called the primitive streak'') 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==
* The track was used in the end credits of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26657236/ Backrooms] by [[wikipedia:Kane Parsons|Kane Parsons]], a film based on the [[wikipedia:Backrooms (web series)|web series]] and [[wikipedia:The Backrooms|creepypasta]] of the same name.<ref>[https://stereogum.com/2500808/backrooms-end-credits-song-is-from-boards-of-canadas-new-album "''Backrooms'' End Credits Song Is From Boards Of Canada’s New Album"], Margaret Farrell, Stereogum, 2026</ref> Parsons cites [[Boards of Canada|the duo]] as one of his influences for the film's score.<ref>[https://www.gq.com/story/backrooms-director-kane-parsons-influences "''Backrooms'' Director Kane Parsons on the Games, Shows, and YouTubers That Shaped Him"], Zack Hauptman, GQ, 2026</ref>
** Notably, ''[[Inferno]]'' and the film were released on the same day: May 29th, 2026. How [[wikipedia:A24|A24]] received early access to the track is unknown.

== Videos ==
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== Audio ==
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== External links ==

== References ==
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Semena Mertvykh

2026-06-09T22:28:01Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Semena Mertvykh
| runtime=3:30
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* This track was used in the "[[Videos#Tomorrow.27s_Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission]]" video which was accessible by inputting the 6 6-digit numbers on the [[cosecha-transmisiones.com]] website. <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8</ref>

* The melody in this song was inspired by Mark Isham's soundtrack to Mrs. Soffel. <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6acKaavnGMk</ref>

* There are similarities with the tracks Taj by Al Gromer Khan and Le Grand Vide by April Orchestra Library Music.

* Might have been inspired by Oberheim OB-12 patch demo by Jexus. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i1ioIXatpo&t=411s</ref>

* [[Michael Sandison|Mike]] had the following to say about this track:

{{boc| "...at the end of the whole album, you've reached some sort of sanctuary and then the whole thing is stolen away from you again with the final track. That last track has a deliberate feeling of complete futility that I find kind of funny. That's where the obsessive, scientific work comes in, and yeah, it takes us ages."}}

== Samples / Lyrics ==

== Trivia ==

* "[[Semena Mertvykh]]" (семена мертвых) is Russian for "Seeds of the Dead".

*Intentional or not, it's fascinating that an anagram of "[[Semena Mertvykh]]" is “Ken me my harvest”. “Ken me” I understand to be Scottish for “understand me” or “know me”.

== Videos ==
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* April Orchestra 40 - Le Grand Vide (possible influence) 
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== External links==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6acKaavnGMk Soundtrack to Mrs. Soffel]

== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
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Come To Dust

2026-06-09T22:27:04Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Come To Dust
| runtime=4:07
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* In an interview with The Guardian, [[Sandison]] said that "[[Come To Dust]]" "is a musical reprise of "[[Reach For The Dead]]".<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* The intro of the track features a reversed and extremely slowed down sample of the choral piece "[[Wikipedia:Miserere_(Allegri)|Miserere mei, Deus]]".<ref> {{#widget:YouTube|id=H3v9unphfi0|start=98}} </ref> It is heavily obscured by the prominent synthesizer on the track, however, this can be removed by phase-inverting one of the stereo channels and then combining them to mono. The exact recording of "[[Wikipedia:Miserere_(Allegri)|Miserere mei, Deus]]" that [[Boards of Canada]] sampled is unknown. This sample was discovered by [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] user personman.

== Trivia ==
* The title is likely a reference to the funeral song from Act IV, scene 2 of [[wikipedia:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]]'s "[[wikipedia:Cymbeline|Cymbeline]]".
<blockquote>
Fear no more the heat o' the sun, 
Nor the furious winter's rages; 
Thou thy worldly task hast done, 
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages: 
Golden lads and girls all must, 
As chimney-sweepers, '''come to dust'''. 
 
Fear no more the frown o’ the great, 
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke; 
Care no more to clothe and eat; 
To thee the reed is as the oak: 
The sceptre, learning, physic, must 
All follow this, and come to dust. 
 
Fear no more the lightning-flash, 
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone; 
Fear not slander, censure rash; 
Thou hast finish’d joy and moan: 
All lovers young, all lovers must 
Consign to thee, and come to dust. <ref>http://www.bartleby.com/70/4642.html</ref> 

</blockquote>

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New Seeds

2026-06-09T22:26:19Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=New Seeds
| runtime=5:39
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* This song title was alluded to during the [[Record Store Day incident#YouTube|Record Store Day incident]] when a clue uploaded to the official hellinterface YouTube account was titled "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDKGVd7B7Sk nuevas semillas]," which is "new seeds" in Spanish. <ref>http://translate.google.com/#es/en/nuevas%20semillas</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
3:50 - "I like you", Repeated until the end in the back layers. Highly combined with the melody and difficult to catch.
At 5:17-5:18 you can hear the sample isolated in the left channel, but very quiet.

== Trivia ==
* The end of this song contains the "Cosecha" jingle, as heard on the original 6 records, as well as the other number transmissions. <ref>[[:Category:------_/_------_/_------_/_XXXXXX_/_------_/_------_artwork]]</ref>
* The song has a motif that also occurs in "[[R35TT A14]]" of the [[Random_35_Tracks_Tape|Random 35 Tracks Tape]].
* The sound heard at the beginning of the track is similar to the sound you hear when cell signal is lost.<ref>https://youtu.be/uPYyrS7fc7g?t=15</ref>

== Videos ==
=== Original ===
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== References ==
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Sundown

2026-06-09T22:24:50Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Sundown
| runtime=2:16
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==
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== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
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Nothing Is Real

2026-06-09T22:24:04Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Nothing Is Real
| runtime=3:52
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*At 1:54 a distorted voice says:

<blockquote>

"Jesus, was it you indeed, 

to flirt unkindly with my greed, 

promising eternal life, 

when you knew it was not right, 

when you knew that what I'd need was willingness and comfort there?"</blockquote>

A version of the track with the voice isolated can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120200/http://sequoia.ax.lt/nothing-is-real.mp3 here].

Nothing is Real shares melodies with previous track "[[Uritual]]".

1:12 - "Thank you" or something familiar is being spoken in female voice.

Towards the end of the track, fading in at the 2:56 mark, a distorted, echoed and possibly back-masked conversation can be heard. It is distorted to such an extent as to be completely unintelligible but is still a noticeable and potent part of the final mix.

== Trivia ==
* The title may be a reference to the Beatles' song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', which contains the line 'Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about', this may be relevant, as in interviews the Sandison brothers have expressed a strong interest in the Beatles' psychedelic works, Strawberry Fields Forever being one of their most psychedelic; a sample of Strawberry Fields Forever can also allegedly be heard in the song Kid For Today.
* It may also be a reference to nihilism, as the brothers also expressed they had "become a lot more nihilistic over the years".<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic</ref>
*In the very beginning of the song, a sound clip from the song "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]" can heard for several seconds.
*This song was used in a documentary about the boxer Edwin Valero.<ref>https://youtu.be/6TXLUcBU2QY</ref>

== Videos ==
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== References ==
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Uritual

2026-06-09T22:22:38Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Uritual
| runtime=1:59
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* "[[Uritual]]" shares melodies with the subsequent track, "[[Nothing Is Real]]".
* The low drone throughout the track is possibly a sample of the sound of "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_sand singing sand dunes]", a phenomenon caused by wind blowing over sand dunes where the sand has certain specific properties, which can be heard in around 35 desert locations around the world. This fits with the desert related imagery used in the packaging and promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''. A clip of the sound of singing sand dunes, very similar to the drone in "[[Uritual]]", can be found [https://youtu.be/CnYeeYmT4tI?si=lra0UEKbKYbbiIdy here].

== Trivia ==
* In keeping with the palindromic nature of the album, "Uritual" is a reprise of sorts of "[[Jacquard Causeway]]", featuring one of the same synth motifs.
* In English, the prefix Ur- means "original" or "primitive."<ref>https://www.etymonline.com/word/ur-</ref>
* Ur was a Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur</ref>

== Videos ==
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== References ==
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Split Your Infinities

2026-06-09T22:21:54Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Split Your Infinities
| runtime=4:28
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Contains a slowed down and distorted sample of a video about purported FEMA Concentration Camps.<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=208665#208665</ref><ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=208758#208758</ref><ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=g0mVD1t_wfg|width=275|height=275|start=2669}}</ref>
** The full quote is as follows, beginning at 1:45 in the song:
<blockquote>"The FEMA plans to imprison American citizens have generated a lot of interest around the country, in locating the potential prison camps throughout the country. These may be facilities currently being used as prisons such as those you saw earlier, or prisons that are being built supposedly in the name of the war on drugs. Or, facilities that have other uses but could quickly be used to detain large numbers of people, such as this Amtrak facility in Beech Grove, Indiana. 
We're standing now in the main parking lot, which doesn't look too sinister. At this level it is a very large parking lot, fenced on all sides by fence topped by barbed wire. It also has these electronically operated turnstiles. There is also a surveillance camera just like we saw at the FEMA facility, pointing out to the parking lot, and a helicopter windsock. 
All of these apparent security measures are particularly unusual here, because this is a very low-crime area and this facility is nothing but an old train repair station with nothing in it worth stealing."| [https://youtu.be/g0mVD1t_wfg "FEMA Camp Footage (America Under Siege)"]|44:29</blockquote>
* Word "imagine" hidden among the drums (starts around 2:19, repeated untill end)
* Contains a sample of a MCA ViceoDisc bumper<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id= eRhs70SWc2c|width=275|height=275}}</ref>, discovered by twoism.org user mechanismj<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10776&start=120</ref>
** This bumper samples library music track ''Syndicate'' by Tom Elliot <ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id= OyNM0cpenvQ|width=275|height=275}}</ref>
* The track title may be a reference to the work of [[wikipedia:Georg Cantor|Georg Cantor]], who introduced the idea of treating "infinity" as a mathematical entity, one that could be split into any number of sub-infinities; an "infinity of infinities". This work established Set Theory, which is considered a foundational system for the whole of mathematics. [[BoC]] have extensively used mathematical ideas in their work and it is, of course, mathematical understanding and insight that powers much of the modern world, including technology. Given the mythos of the album, there appears to be a sense of caution in this idea. A limitless "splitting of infinity" can imply a harmful positive feedback cycle where an adverse change leads to worsening adverse change, such as deleterious climate change (notably runaway greenhouse effect inducing global warming), disease spreading and epidemics, a nuclear fission reaction (as used in nuclear bombs), overpopulation and overconsumption, etc.

== Trivia ==
* A [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/split+infinitive split infinitive] is a verb form where an element like an adverb is placed between ''to'' and the infinitive form of a verb. The most famous example of a split infinitive is perhaps the line "...to boldly go" from Star Trek.
* "[[wikipedia:Split Infinity|Split Infinity]]" is a science fiction book by [[wikipedia:Piers Anthony|Piers Anthony]] set on a technologically decadent world.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Split-Infinity-Apprentice-Adept-Book/dp/0345354915</ref>

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Palace Posy

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| runtime=4:05
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* "Palace Posy" is an anagram of "Apocalypse".<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=206690#206690</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*The song samples the word "eleven" from the 1970s WTCN-TV jingle.<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=211327#211327</ref>
*Voices can be heard in the background from 1:07 to 2:07

== Trivia ==

* A palace is the official residence of a sovereign, archbishop, bishop, or other exalted person. The word derives from the Latin palatium, from Palatium, the Palatine Hill in Rome where the emperors' residences were built.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace</ref>
* A posy is a brief sentiment, motto, or legend. Alternatively it is a word for a flower or bouquet of flowers. During the Plague, posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posy</ref>
** “Ring a Ring o’ Roses” is a folksong and singing game that was first published in 1881 in England. Although first published in 1881 only, it is believed that the tune of the song was well known at least one hundred years before as well. A very similar German nursery rhyme and singing game was already published in the 18th century. There is a theory that the lyrics would depict the Great Plague, but this was proved to be unfounded, as this claim originated in the 20th century and was based upon the modern version of the lyrics, not the original ones.<ref>https://allnurseryrhymes.com/ring-a-ring-o-roses/</ref><blockquote>Ring a ring o’ roses A pocketful of posies a-tishoo, a-tishoo We all fall down.</blockquote>
* The Posy Palace was a florist shop at [[wikipedia:Hertfordshire|Hertfordshire]] in the [[wikipedia:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]. It is no longer in business.<ref>http://www.theposypalace.co.uk/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Posy-Palace-Walkern/112436605435591</ref>
* Posies became popular fashion accessories and have been known as tussie-mussies since the reign of Queen-Empress Victoria<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosegay</ref> the first British sovereign to take residence at Buckingham Palace.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace#Home_of_the_monarch</ref> As well, the British Empire was known by the name "the empire on which the sun never sets."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_empire_on_which_the_sun_never_sets</ref>

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| runtime=2:49
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* According to [[Michael Sandison]] in an interview with [[wikipedia:The Guardian|The Guardian]], "There's a palindromic structure centred around the track "[[Collapse]]" in the middle."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic</ref> On Tomorrow's Harvest, there are exactly 8 tracks before "[[Collapse]]" and 8 tracks afterwards.

* 'Collapse' in this context is most likely a term referring to the sudden failure of a system, organization, business, etc.<ref> http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/collapse_3 </ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* A voice saying "zero zero eight zero (nine?)" can be heard at 2:00 when played at twice normal speed.

== Trivia ==
* The track is identical in structure when played forward or reversed.
* On the vinyl release, "[[Collapse]]" is the final track on Side B. It can be said the abrupt ending of this track is more dramatic than in other media formats, since "[[Palace Posy]]" does not immediately follow, giving "[[Collapse]]" a greater sense of fatalism.

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Collapse

2026-06-09T22:19:30Z

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| name=Collapse
| runtime=2:49
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* According to [[Michael Sandison]] in an interview with [[wikipedia:The Guardian|The Guardian]], "There's a palindromic structure centred around the track "[[Collapse]]" in the middle."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/06/boards-of-canada-become-more-nihilistic</ref> On Tomorrow's Harvest, there are exactly 8 tracks before "[[Collapse]]" and 8 tracks afterwards.

* 'Collapse' in this context is most likely a term referring to the sudden failure of a system, organization, business, etc.<ref> http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/collapse_3 </ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* A voice saying "zero zero eight zero (nine?)" can be heard at 2:00 when played at twice normal speed.

== Trivia ==
* The track is identical in structure when played forward or reversed.
* On the vinyl release, "[[Collapse]]" is the final track on Side B. It can be said the abrupt ending of this track is more dramatic than in other media formats, since "[[Palace Posy]]" does not immediately follow, giving "[[Collapse]]" a greater sense of fatalism.

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Sick Times

2026-06-09T22:18:00Z

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| runtime=4:16
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Narratively, this track follows the upstart of a new civilization as presented in "[[Transmisiones Ferox]]". They ultimately become "sick" and eventually die off, as presented in "[[Collapse]]".

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Around 1:46 a voice appears to say 'thank you'. Further unintelligible vocal samples continue throughout the track.
* At 2:15, 2:24, 2:33, & 2:42 a modulated voice appears in the left channel saying "You'll do anything"
* A looping sample appears after 2:15 saying 'six.'
* Starting at 2:15, there's a high-pitched vocal out the right channel that says "chemtrails" with a sibilant "s" when reversed.
* At 3:00, a female voice says "I have a feeling that we will have been..."
* At 3:14, a sample is heard that can also be heard at 2:42 in "[[Rue the Whirl]]" from ''[[MHTRTC]].''
* At 3:16, a female voice says "Thirty."
*At 3:55, iconic [https://youtu.be/75V4ClJZME4 Doctor Who theme] plays, heard briefly.
* Directly after the 'thank you' sample, a voice in the right channel may be responding with 'goodbye' or 'goodnight'. [AB]

== Trivia ==
* Sick Times could be a reference to the First of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Pestilence.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse</ref>

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Transmisiones Ferox

2026-06-09T22:17:10Z

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| name=Transmisiones Ferox
| runtime=2:18
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
*The combination of Latin and Spanish in the title of the song causes my mind to find a connection in the Iberian Peninsula where, in tracing the applicability of the thought I find that with respect to Bell Beaker culture "Gordon Childe interpreted the presence of its characteristic artifact as the intrusion of "missionaries" expanding from Iberia along the Atlantic coast, spreading knowledge of copper metallurgy. Stephen Shennan interpreted the artifacts as belonging to a mobile cultural elite imposing itself over the indigenous substrate populations."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture#Origins] Portugal has also been identified as one of the early centers from which agriculture and European Megalith culture spread. This is all prior to the end of the Chalcolithic age, the first step in the copper-bronze-iron progression which saw the dawn writing, of large (and bloody) empires, and eventually laid the groundwork for mathematics and astronomy.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age] The Peninsula was also the site of extended conflicts between Rome and other cultures, quite notably the second Punic War, and was eventually conquered and renamed Hispania.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula]
* * Narratively, this track follows an upstart civilization emerging from another ice age as presented on "[[Cold Earth]]" (the first being "[[White Cyclosa]]"). In sustaining the theme of cycles on the album, this track presents a collage of radio transmissions, perhaps from this new upstart civilization, or even disparate clusters of survivors who only have radios to communicate with each other, mirroring the "aggressive" or "fierce" ("ferox") transmissions as presented in this track. The following track, "[[Sick Times]]", again repeats, or re-cycles the motif of the downfall of civilization.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*The track has an airplane sounding sample playing through the song, which is sampled from the intro of [https://www.discogs.com/release/3353538-Donald-Byrd-Flight-Time Flight Time] by [https://www.discogs.com/artist/20956-Donald-Byrd Donald Byrd].
*The track features a prominent female vocal sample repeating "Nineteen-ninety-nine", as the sample is layered upon itself multiple times it begins to sound like the word "Dying" is being repeated.
** This female voice could possibly also be saying "nineteen ninety-five", with the recurrence of simultaneous "ni-" and fi-" creating the illusion of the word "dying".
**It may also be worthwhile to note that the vocal sample seems to begin looping at the very beginning of the phrase. On the second occasion especially it can be heard as "nineteen nineteen five-five-five..." or "nineteen nineteen dying dying dying....".

*In reverse, one can hear "Lift/wake me up!" spoken in the same woman's voice.

*Starting at around 1:59 a slowed-down female voice can be heard saying something resembling "The others." This, when reversed sounds like "They're outside." This sample is repeated until the end of the track.
At about 1:20 the synth beat morphs into a heartbeat or possibly two heartbeats, maybe from an ultrasound.

== Trivia ==
* Transmisiones is a Spanish word meaning "Transmissions".
* Ferox is a Latin word meaning "fierce" or "aggressive".
* The title may be a reference to the film ''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082700/ Cannibal Ferox]'' (Lenzi, 1981).
** In the bible, Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh’s (fero) dreams (transmisiones) of the seven thin cows eating seven cows (cannibal ox) and seven heads of grain eating seven heads of grain (cannibal farro) of being seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine. TH’s release date of 2013 would be fourteen years after the lyric “nineteen ninety nine”.<ref> https://archive.org/details/newoxfordannotat00ande/page/n92/mode/1up</ref>
* "Ferox" may be an abbreviation for "ferric oxide", used in the manufacture of magnetic tape.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron(III)_oxide</ref>

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Cold Earth

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2026-06-09T22:14:30Z

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| name=Telepath
| runtime=1:32
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Telepathy is the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. It was a major field of research for scientists during the early 20th century and into the Cold War. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy</ref> Upton Sinclair also conducted telepathy experiments in the '30s.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQEmLUlDXz0C</ref>

* The audio distortions on the vocals of this track may have been modeled after the reported auditory distortions present in Microwave auditory effect <ref>[[wikipedia|Microwave_auditory_effect]]</ref>, which was a facet of telepathy research during the Cold War. This auditory phenomenon was used to transmit sounds directly from a microwave emitter into the human brain. Researchers described that the auditory distortions inherent to this process caused "the sounds [to resemble] those emitted by persons with an artificial voice box." <ref> D.R. Justesen. "Microwaves and Behavior", Am Psychologist, 392(Mar): 391–401, 1975.</ref>
*When played backward, the voice counting in the track can be heard to say "This is (is) the end of the Earth.. for now."
* Narratively, in sticking with the theme of cycles on the album, this track follows the evolution or mutation of a new civilization on Earth following the thawing of the planet from an artificial nuclear ice age ("[[White Cyclosa]]", who also fail (or "[[Collapse]]") due to an ice-age, as presented in "[[Cold Earth]]", the next track on the album. This implies cycles operating at multiple scales, that of the death-rebirth cycle of civilizations, and perhaps that of individual humans as in some other religious or spiritual beliefs, of cyclical weather patterns, and of the civilization itself, which was born out of an ice age ("[[Jacquard Causeway]]") and died from an ice age ("[[Cold Earth]]").

== Samples / Lyrics ==

0:04 "Testing. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. (oops) Up and down, quite a thing [while I'm counting?]."
(background) six, six, nine.

0:20: (Second voice) "On repeat. Give me a count." (also sounds like "you can't")

0:23 "The stuff that they know, the one on the right and then turn it up, while I'm counting. One... three, four, fi-ive, six, seven, eight, through ni- (garbled)"

0:43: (Second voice) "It's too loud." (Pitched down) "Plaid."

0:45 "Well, this is quite pleasant. Let's play it back and see what it sounds like."

(Second and third voice) "Could I get the one voice?", "Nervous!", "Don't be nervous."

"One, two, three, four, fi-ive, six, six, seven."

* After the last number you can hear a quiet "listen" (same as in "Reach for the Dead").

== Trivia ==
* In one sequence, the number six is repeated in the background, the result sounding more like "666".
* [[wikipedia:Madonna|Madonna]]'s "[[wikipedia:Live to Tell|Live to Tell]]" intro at .75x sounds like "[[Telepath]]".<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=ZmE-fC9ZEBg}}</ref>

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Jacquard Causeway

2026-06-09T22:13:35Z

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| name=Jacquard Causeway
| runtime=6:35
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* So first of all, it's a difficult song because it feels like it's in 3/2 time (though it has been suggested that it is basically in 4/4 (double-time), with kick on 4.5, snare on 3. The 3/2 feel is just a lazy superimposed polyrhythm). This is far from common in electronic music. You have to relax the part of your brain that's used to 4/4 time and just let the electro-waltz flow through you.
* Now, when you listen past the beat, you'll hear loops, but they're different by just a little bit on each measure, with new patterns coming into play as old ones leave. In many ways, it's very much like a loom, with the start of new patterns entering into the threading as the completion of old patterns winds its way out. In the end, you've basically gone through a tapestry of music. Technically speaking, the melodies were probably passed through an electronic delay that repeats every bar and fades out slowly over the course of many bars.
* Certainly the Jacquard mentioned is the loom-maker; he's one of the first people to make a program of any kind, and a machine that could use arbitrary programs to affect actions in reality. That's an amazing step forward for humanity and certainly paved the way for the development of stored-program computers. Without this critical insight in some way or another, we might have been stuck on analog patch computation for a long time. I think it would have happened without Jacquard, for sure, but nevertheless, he was first, and so we should know his name.
* The causeway is therefore his; and the causeway is a perfect choice of words because the 'cause' at the beginning implies that there's a reason for it to exist, a starting point if you will, without saying anything about the end of it. They could have said "superhighway" ala the Information Superhighway that people sometimes call the Internet, but the Internet is merely an output of the causeway we're on as a species: the progress of technological development. Also, it sounds better; BoC doesn't like to hit you with a hammer, subtlety is their game.
I think the song weaves the themes of technological development like a loom.
* Early in the song, it's a simple synth rhythm (that really harkens back to ''[[A Few Old Tunes]]'' style simplicity); this is the loom, and the barest indication of possibilities. As the song proceeds, new layers come in, some hopeful, some melancholic, some that sound almost weary, like a person burdened by a load. They fit together rhythmically like clockwork, with different periods lining up with each other at common denominations, furthering the automation theme.
* At around 3:50 or so we start to pick up on some newer-style BoC themes, particular musical keys we've heard before in their work. A sense of contentment and ease comes over the song, reducing the tension from before. If we extend the historical metaphor, could this be an age when technology was reducing work with no obvious downsides, a "golden age"?
* Eventually, the beat dies away, and we're left with one of the most hopeful sounds on the entire album. In my view, this is BoC's comment on the promise of technology, not necessarily on the reality of it (as the album certainly gets darker from there).
* Narratively, this track implies a thawing of the earth after a nuclear ice age as presented in "[[White Cyclosa]]", and the beginnings of a new civilization, who perhaps later evolve or mutate due to the environmental radiation, notably with psionic powers, as presented in "[[Telepath]]".

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== Trivia ==
* The title likely refers to the Jacquard loom, a loom created in the early 19th century that used punchcards to control the loom's individual strings. As such, it is an extremely early example of binary programming. These cards would later be the inspiration for IBM's early mainframe punchcards.
* The initials of the title, "JC" , could be a reference to Jesus Christ, an initialism in the same style of "Satanic" from the track SATellite ANthem ICarus.
* Jacquard may also refer to [[wikipedia:Albert Jacquard|Albert Jacquard]], a geneticist well known for defending the concept of 'degrowth'. 'Degrowthists' aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community. Jacquard also took a strong stand against commercial use of the human genome in the 1990s.
* [[wikipedia:Giant's_Causeway|Giant's Causeway]] is the name of an irish coastline consisting of hexagonal basalt columns.
* A [[wikipedia:Causeway|causeway]] is a road or railway route across a broad body of water or wetland raised up on an embankment.
* The way the track makes use of [[wikipedia:counterpoint|counterpoint]] for the melodies seems to be a nod to the counterpoint work of [[wikipedia:Steve Reich|Steve Reich]]. The way that Steve Reich structures his counterpoint pieces is nearly identical to Jacquard Causeway: an element, phrase, or melody is presented and played through once, at first at a higher volume than the rest. Eventually, the new element decreases in volume, blending in with the rest, which effectively makes room for a new element. Eventually, all the smaller, melodic enemies layered on top of each other create new, "unintended" melodies. For an example, see Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint - Slow" in the videos section below.

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White Cyclosa

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| runtime=3:13
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* "[[White Cyclosa]]" is highly reminiscent of, and possibly a homage to, music from the film Day of the Dead (1985). Suggested comparison - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwHQltabnxU the opening sequence of "The Dead Suite" on the soundtrack album, credited to John Harrison.]

* There seems to be a direct connection between "[[White Cyclosa]]" and the ending of the 1982 animated film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague_Dogs_(film) The Plague Dogs] - as if [[Boards of Canada]] wrote the track as an alternative score for this segment of the film. This is most apparent as the helicopter in pursuit of the two dogs flies directly overhead (synchronizing flawlessly with the helicopter sample in the track's intro). The finding is illustrated below in a YouTube video uploaded by [https://www.youtube.com/user/KensDreaming KensDreaming].

* Narratively, following the implied nuclear apocalypse presented in "[[Reach For The Dead]]", this track may refer to a nuclear winter, a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. In essence, an artificial ice age where the Earth is completely covered in endless, or cyclical white sheets of snow and ice. Following this, [[Jacquard Causeway]] may imply the thawing of the planet, revealing rocks and causeways underneath, and the new upstart civilization using sophisticated technology (a jacquard loom).

* In the Stargate SG-1 episode called "Beneath the Surface" (S04E10, September 2000) the musical melody at the 11m46s mark is identical to that played in White Cyclosa at the 00m38s mark.<ref> https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vhp9e </ref> Coincidentally, this episode deals with a supposed impending ice age, where a working class of people is subjugated into underground living by an elite class under the pretense of a hostile environment in the surface.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* The sound of a large helicopter's blades whirring plays throughout most of the track.

== Trivia ==
* Cyclosa is a genus of spiders that create webs with linear decorations and which heavily incorporate the remains of their prey and other debris, likely serving to camouflage them. The species Cyclosa tremula is black and white colored and crafts decoys from the remains of its prey, which it imitates by vibrating its body to appear grey when disturbed. Another species, Cyclosa argenteoalba, may become infected with the parasitic larva of the wasp Reclinervellus nielseni, which forces the spider to build a web before eating the spider and using the web to complete its metamorphosis. The name of the genus, Cyclosa, is derived from the Greek "to move in a circle." While most orb-web spiders face downwards in their web, some (including argentoalba) face upwards.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclosa]
* A [http://ghostbikes.org/ Ghost Bike] is a bicycle painted all white and welded upright in place to memorialize the spot a local cyclist was killed by obtuse traffic, to promote bicyclist commuter awareness and safety. (christ.’s 2007 album was titled [https://christmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bike “bike”])

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Reach For The Dead

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| name=Reach For The Dead
| cover=Reach for the Dead.jpg
| label=Warp
| catno=WARPDD257A
| release_date=23 May 2026
| format=Digital
| runtime=4:47}}
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| name=Reach For The Dead
| runtime=4:47
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* [http://www.twoism.org/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1374 donacidae]: "I've transcribed "[[Reach For The Dead]]" so you can all enjoy playing on the piano / guitar / whatever. http://bit.ly/12zkS0g" <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10648</ref>

* A recurring motif throughout the song shares melodic similarities with the theme in the movie Zombie, albeit much slower. This may be intentional, as the score for the film was done by Fabio Frizzi and the band has specifically cited his work among others as influences towards the sound and production of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''.

* At the end of the official music video, the Sun is seen splitting into three distinct Suns, creating a 'trinity' of Suns.
** Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the [[Wikipedia:Manhattan Project|Manhattan Project]] in the New Mexico desert. In the video, we see sweeping images of desert landscapes and abandoned, dilapidated residential structures with the implied meaning of a post-nuclear landscape. Overall, this fits with themes of technological sophistication, apocalypse, and self-destruction revisited on the album.
** Trinity may also refer to the Christian concept of God as three entities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Indeed, prayer or ritual is a way in which the living practice communication with the dead, implying they are ''reaching for the dead''. In Christianity, prayer is often started with performing the Sign of the Cross on oneself and conjuring God as the Holy Trinity; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In some Indigenous North American cultures, deceased ancestors are viewed as venerated peoples, sometimes Gods, or in communication with God. This implies ancestor worship, which ties into the themes and aesthetics of the album, with tracks such as "[[Uritual]]" (ur-ritual, or "primitive ritual"), "[[New Seeds]]" (planted by ancestors, or the work of previous generations), and "[[Semena Mertvykh]]" (seeds of the dead).
** The process of the Sun itself is a massive fusion reaction, which can be viewed as a ''reversal'' of a fission reaction, typical of nuclear bombs. The idea of reversal is a theme [[Boards of Canada]] has explored across its discography.
** Initially, the Sun only splits into two Suns, perhaps again referring to the Twins, Gemini, or [[Boards of Canada]] themselves. The third Sun fades in soon after between the two, which may be symbolic of the creation of new matter via fusion reactions, a typical process of a sun. If taken to represent humans in general, the appearance of the third Sun may symbolically represent a barrier between the two 'Suns' or humans, of their impending calamity if they do not work together for fruitful accomplishments.
* Narratively, this track presents a nuclear apocalypse, followed from "[[Gemini]]" (which heralded the apocalypse), and followed by "[[White Cyclosa]]" which implies a nuclear winter.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* At 03:23, a male voice says "Listen" or possibly "Risen."
** If the sample is "Risen", that would play into the Christianity motifs in the music video, especially around the Holy Trinity, where Jesus, as God on Earth, rose from the dead. Indeed, the whole album thematically deals with cycles. This may be of civilization, each rising from the dead of previous civilizations. For example, the final two tracks on the album imply this, "[[Come To Dust]]" immediately followed by "[[Semena Mertvykh]]" (seeds of the dead). Or, it may be implying that each new civilisation, although bringing new hope, continues to make the same mistakes as previous ones, thus they are merely resurrections of prior civilisations that have failed. That we are cyclically doomed to repeat our failures.

== Trivia ==
* "[[Reach For The Dead]]" was released as a single in anticipation of the ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' release. It was given in advance as an MP3 download to those who pre-ordered ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''. <ref>https://bleep.com/release/43515-boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest#description</ref> It was also part of the [[Tomorrow's Harvest#Viral Marketing|viral marketing campaign]]. The "[[Reach For The Dead]]" [[Videos#Reach For The Dead|video]] was originally aired in [[Tomorrow's_Harvest#Shibuya-ku_Tokyo|Tokyo]], and the following day, the full song was played on [[Tomorrow's_Harvest#Zane_Lowe|BBC Radio 1]] followed by its reveal on the official [[Boards of Canada]] website.
* Unseen footage was shown @ [https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/a-warp-happening A Warp Happening] (2025-06-14).<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuB4O_yfp68</ref>

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== Artwork ==
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== External links==
* http://warp.net/records/boards-of-canada/reach-for-the-dead
* https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151463231493927&set=a.10151463231488927.1073741825.6168813926&type=1

== References ==
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Gemini

2026-06-09T22:09:20Z

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| name=Gemini
| runtime=2:56
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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== Comments ==
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=616 Skytree] observed the following:
** "[[Gemini]]": track one
** "[[Gemini]]": May 21 - June 20
** Dredging up of the subconscious mind.
** This past weekend saw the last of three eclipses of 2013 (until the Fall), ending in "[[Gemini]]".
** [[Music Has The Right To Children]]: "[[Aquarius]]". Both "[[Aquarius]]" and "[[Gemini]]" are air signs.
** Much of [[BoC]]'s video imagery involves flying through the air.
** -- end transmission -- <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=198078#198078</ref>
* I read a review (sorry, someone else needs to edit this post to properly cite the reference) noting that Gemini is twins, and suggesting that separation (or invisible, maybe inevitable) connections might be recurring ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' theme. (e.g., "[[Split Your Infinities]]", [http://www.brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/loci1.php?site=coil08 Last Rites Of Spring/"Twin gods of death at the end of the tunnel"], Beckett's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Trio_(play) Ghost Trio], Virgil's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid#Themes Aeneid], & Dante's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy#Thematic_concerUzns Divine Comedy])
**Many others' comments focus on palindromes, suggesting cycles in the tracks' sequence.
* The track, and therefore the album begins with a short trumpet vignette. In the Bible, the Book of Revelation says that the end of times - the apocalypse - would be heralded by seven angels sounding seven trumpets. This fits in with the themes and motifs of the album, in particular the apocalypse, as the 7-note opening trumpet vignette is immediately followed by 7 distinct string chords.
* Narratively, this track may be heralding an impending apocalypse, which is presented by "[[Reach For The Dead]]".
* [https://forum.watmm.com/topic/83658-tomorrows-harvest-today/?p=2573936 Embers] observed the following quote: "''From the Twins come less laborious callings and a more agreeable way of life, provided by varied song and voices of harmonious tone, slender pipes, the melodies inborn in strings and the words fitted thereto: those so endowed find even work a pleasure. They would banish the arms of war, the trumpet's call, and the gloom of old age: theirs is a life of ease and unfading youth spent in the arms of love. They also discover paths to the skies, complete a survey of the heavens with numbers and measurements, and outstrip the flight of the stars: nature yields to their genius, which it serves in all things. So many are the accomplishments of which the Twins are fruitful.''" - Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD), a Roman poet and astrologer, said of the Gemini twins in his poem ''Astronomica''.
** Astronomica itself is a hexameter didactic poem.
*** The number 6 and its associated symbolism (primarily, hexagons) is a recurring item in [[Boards of Canada]]'s music.
*** ''Didactic'' refers to something that is "intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive." - ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' could be interpreted as didactic, commentating on how our current behaviors affect ourselves, and our environment and inform our future (direct instruction/teaching), but also providing an opportunity for self-reflection, reparations, and a path to salvation (moral instruction - "a more agreeable way of life", "banish the arms of war", "life of ease...in the arms of love").
** Specific sub-quotes can be said to refer to the [[Boards of Canada]]'s themselves, imagery of flying or other representations of air, cycles, technological sophistication, destruction, life, death, apocalypse, etc.
*** "''...laborious callings...''" - a direct reference to the album's title. A call to action. Work that must be performed soon. Something that must happen in the future. Something that must be faced in the future. Tomorrow's Harvest. Ties in with the sense of "something impending" oft used to described the album, even by the brother's themselves in an interview.
*** "''...less laborious callings and a more agreeable way of life...''" - the quote indicates that the Twins call for an easement in work, or hardship, and a better way of living. This ties back into the moral instruction of the album. The only way to prevent our future suffering is to better ourselves in the present, to unburden ourselves from potential hardship. We can change the future by changing the present, that we do not need to walk the path of self-destruction.
*** "''...provided by varied song and voices of harmonious tone, slender pipes, the melodies inborn in strings and the words fitted thereto...''" - a direct reference to the music.
**** After the trumpet vignette (which itself is a signal of the coming apocalypse, as said in the Bible's Book of Revelation), the body of the track Gemini fades in with strings.
**** ''slender pipes and melodies'' - woodwind, particularly flute-esque melodies, are a recurring theme in BoC's music.
**** ''words fitted thereto'' - the album heavily features both subtle and non-subtle samples of human spoken word, Gemini included.
*** "''...the gloom of old age...''" - the emphasis on the old age being a negative ties in with the moral instruction to change for the better, that something has changed or will [have to] change for the better. The transition from the old age to the new age, from darkness to light, that something is not the end but the beginning. This further ties in with the theme of cycles on the album. This is perhaps reflected in the track Gemini by the swirling, oscillating noise that backs the intense striking of chords. The album itself goes through 5 cycles of birth>death>rebirth and can be correlated to the 4 sides of the vinyl edition.
**** Side A: Gemini (the call for better living) > Jacquard Causeway (an uneasy, perhaps perilous time or journey)
**** Side B: Telepath (a new kind of life) > Collapse (destruction)
**** Side C: Palace Posy (a very indigenous beat in this track, almost tribal/primitive, represents the dawn of a new society) > Sundown (coming of darkness)
**** Side D: New Seeds (a new beginning, a new era, a new society) > Come To Dust (to die), followed by Semena Mertvykh ("Seeds of the Dead" - a new society emerges from the ashes) which cycles back onto the first track, Gemini.
*** "''...unfading youth...''" - BoC often touch on nostalgia, most often tied to sensory experiences that occurred in our youth, and directly ties in with BoC's style and sound. In the context of the quote, it implies a positive: direct instruction to be carefree, to live well and happily. However, on Tomorrow's Harvest, it is commentary that we are negatively tied to the past, and the moral instruction to better ourselves is to unhinge from the past and instead look forward to where we are headed. The duality of this interpretation, not only a reference to the duality of the Gemini twins, but also highlights the tension between where we currently are at, and where we should be. That tension is change, specifically and how society often oscillates (cycles) between change and resistance to change.
*** "''...discover paths to the skies...''" - reflective of the album's imagery, particularly the music video for "Reach for the Dead" which features scenes of flying through the sky, the air, the sign of Gemini. But also implies a level of technological sophistication, as a human requires understanding and invention of tools to fly. It is interpreted that technology may be our downfall, that it may outstrip our control, causing a catastrophic event. The album is littered with reference to understanding and technology, from the radioactive yellow on the vinyl (nuclear technologies requires understanding of matter), to the idea of a harvest (a human development that requires understanding of agriculture and associated technologies). Perhaps the idea is that which brings us so much ease and knowledge, that which identifies us as human - our ability to craft and use tools - can also undo us. Not an original idea for the album, but a common one used in all sorts of media that touches on catastrophic/apocalyptic failings of humans.
*** "''...complete a survey of the heavens with numbers and measurements...''" - a call back to BoC's earlier work that was heavily laden with references to mathematical concepts (numbers and measurements). A meta-reference that BoC themselves have yet again changed their sound on Tomorrow's Harvest. It may be BoC saying they as people have changed ("We've become more nihilistic", as quoted in an interview), an implicit example that people can change. The idea of surveying and measurement also ties back into the previous line of thought of technological sophistication and building knowledge. But can also be abstracted into the idea of surveying and measuring how things are, to make an assessment and to make changes for the better.
*** "''...outstrip the flight of the stars...''" - still following the line of thought on technological sophistication.
*** "''...nature yields to their genius, which it serves in all things.''" - commentary on the ubiquity and pervasiveness of technology in nature. That their genius (their technology, their ability to manipulate their surroundings with said technology) serves all things (complete control of nature). But when we are so in control of our environment, what do we do with all that power? That is the core question presented on Tomorrow's Harvest- and we can be destructive or fruitful. This is the ultimate moral consideration presented here.
*** "''So many are the accomplishments of which the Twins are fruitful.''" - the ultimate direct instruction. We should use what we control have for the better, to be fruitful, and for all to prosper without war, but in peace and love. To not live in the old age, but move into a new age. To live a more agreeable way of life.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
At 2:52 you can hear in the left channel the words "Does anybody copy me?" followed by "Roger" at 2:55. It becomes more recognizable and played 25% slower.

== Trivia ==
* Gemini was an American spaceflight program from 1962-1966. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_program]

* Gemini is a subcritical nuclear test project run by The National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA). The NNSA runs the U.S. nuclear warhead program. [http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/WSLF%20Issue%20Update--Subcritical%20Tests%20Fall%202012.pdf]

* Gemini (♊) is also the third astrological sign in the [[wikipedia:Zodiac|Zodiac]]. Gemini were twin brothers, and therefore, could be a symbolic reference to the Sandison brothers themselves, even though they are not identical.

* Gemini can be also a direct reference to Gemini Films, a film production, and distributor. [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0003571/] The duo already made a small reference to them, when they sampled the ending of the 1982 adult film titled "A Brief Affair" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123570/] on [[One Very Important Thought]]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhAOFIEJR0k]

* In Ancient Greek mythology Gemini are Castor and Pollux[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux], twin gods who are associated with Venus in its role as the morning and the evening star, and whose attestation dates back to an earlier reconstructed Indo-European myth of the Divine Twins,[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_twins] who are descendants of the Sky-God Dyēus and brothers/consorts/rescuers to the Dawn. They are responsible for carrying the sun through the sky each day and are said to rescue mortals from peril in battle and at sea.

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You Retreat In Time And Space

2026-06-07T20:07:30Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=You Retreat In Time And Space
| runtime=5:25
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==

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Naraka

2026-06-07T20:02:46Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Naraka
| runtime=5:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
"[[Naraka]]" is the [[wikipedia:Hinduism|Hindu]] place for the expiation of sins after death, roughly corresponding to the Christian concept of hell (or perhaps purgatory).<ref>[[wikipedia:Naraka (Hinduism)]]</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 2:39 onwards, a [[wikipedia:International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness|Hare Krishna]] chant sampled from a short promotional film showcasing the worldwide activities of the [[wikipedia:International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness|International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)]] in the early 1980s.<ref>{{#ev:youtube|5PDzmY9A6pY|480||||start=5|false}}</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1tqh8h0/boards_of_canada_inferno/</ref>
<blockquote>
हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण 
कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे 
हरे राम हरे राम 
राम राम हरे हरे 
 
("O Lord Krishna, O Lord Rama, please allow me to serve You") 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==

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I Saw Through Platonia

2026-06-03T19:15:52Z

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| name=I Saw Through Platonia
| runtime=2:39
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The title "I Saw Through Platonia" most likely refers to the concept by British Physicist Julian Barbour called the realm of Platonia, an infinite timeless landscape which contains every possible arrangement and configuration of the universe.<ref>https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/4760621</ref>
** Itself influenced by Plato's concept of the world of forms (called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperuranion "Hyperuranion"] in the original Greek).
* Throughout the track, a beat resembling a heartbeat can be heard, up until the track abruptly ends.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* The sound at the end of the track seems to be a carrier wave signal; a carrier wave is a steady high-frequency electromagnetic waveform which serves as a base to “carry” lower-frequency information from a transmitter to a receiver.
* The auditory phenomenology common associated with the DMT experience, which shares commonalities with near-death experiences, is often described as "the carrier signal."
* As of June 3rd 2026 it has not been established whether the carrier wave signal at the end of this track contains information, or if so, what.

== Trivia ==
* The melody in this track shares a slight resemblance to the melody in “[[R35TT B01]]”.

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Acts Of Magic

2026-06-03T07:39:08Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Acts Of Magic
| runtime=1:18
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

"[[Acts Of Magic]]" is the eighth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''. It was partially heard in the album's official trailer, released on April 22nd, 2026.

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• Samples of birds chirping, and the buzzing of an insect swarm, can be heard throughout the track.

== Trivia ==
* The trailer version adds the drone heard at the beginning of "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" on top of the track.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9h6fJg-KoA "INFERNO. 29 May 2026."] Boards of Canada & Warp Records, YouTube</ref>

*While there does not appear to be a correlation between the track numbers and their song titles throughout Inferno, there appears a few track titles and numbers that could. Acts Of Magic is track 8. This could refer to any of the following; The 8 Types (acts) Of Magic practiced by magicians: Prediction, Vanishing, Transformation, Restoration, Transposition, Penetration, Levitation, Appearance. It could also refer to the 8 types of forbidden magic: Necromancy, Sex Magic, Goetia, Diabolic Pact Magic, Maleficium, Blood Rites, Forbidden Divination, and Dream Divination. Thirdly, is the possible Biblical link. As we have seen before BOC are no strangers to linking Biblical passages and/or apocalyptic prophecy in their music, Acts Of Magic could be a Reference to Acts Chapter 8:9-25 in which a magician in Samaria named Simon encounters Peter and John and asks to receive their own divine authority.

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I Saw Through Platonia

2026-06-02T21:58:53Z

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| runtime=2:39
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The title "I Saw Through Platonia" most likely refers to the concept by British Physicist Julian Barbour called the realm of Platonia, an infinite timeless landscape which contains every possible arrangement and configuration of the universe.<ref>https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/4760621</ref>
** Itself influenced by Plato's concept of the world of forms (called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperuranion "Hyperuranion"] in the original Greek).
* Throughout the track, a beat resembling a heartbeat can be heard, up until the track abruptly ends.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* The sound at the end of the track seems to be a carrier wave signal; a carrier wave is a steady high-frequency electromagnetic waveform which serves as a base to “carry” lower-frequency information from a transmitter to a receiver.
* The auditory phenomenology common associated with the DMT experience, which shares commonalities with near-death experiences, is often described as "the carrier signal."

== Trivia ==
* The melody in this track shares a slight resemblance to the melody in “[[R35TT B01]]”.

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I Saw Through Platonia

2026-05-31T13:04:02Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=I Saw Through Platonia
| runtime=2:39
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
• The title "I Saw Through Platonia" most likely refers to the concept by British Physicist Julian Barbour called the realm of Platonia, an infinite timeless landscape which contains every possible arrangement and configuration of the universe.

• Throughout the track, a beat that largely resembles a Heart beat can be heard, up until the track abruptly ends.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The sound at the end of the track seems to be a Carrier wave signal, a Carrier wave is a steady high-frequency electromagnetic waveform which serves as a base to “carry” lower-frequency information from a transmitter to a receiver.

== Trivia ==
• The melody in this track shares a slight resemblance to the melody in “[[R35TT B01]]”.

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You Retreat In Time And Space

2026-05-31T13:03:02Z

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| name=You Retreat In Time And Space
| runtime=5:25
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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The Process

2026-05-31T13:02:05Z

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| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
• “The Process” most likely refers to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and had disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, “The Process” was the title of the group’s self-titled Magazine.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of babble, such as "We noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "Between various Phoenician Bishops it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']."

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The Process

2026-05-31T13:01:33Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
• “The Process” most likely refers to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and had disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, “The Process” was the title of the group’s self-titled Magazine.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of babble, such as "We noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "Between various Phoenician Bishops it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']."

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==
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Arena Americanada

2026-05-31T13:00:49Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Arena Americanada
| runtime=5:22
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

"[[Arena Americanada]]" is the fifteenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

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== Comments ==
* "Americanada" is a portmanteau of America and Canada.
** It can also be read as a combination of America and nada, the latter word meaning "nothing".<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nada “nada”] Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary</ref>

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All Reason Departs

2026-05-31T12:59:50Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=All Reason Departs
| runtime=6:14
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 0:28, a reading of a passage written by occultist [[wikipedia:Aleister_Crowley|Aleister Crowley]] from "[[wikipedia:Magick_(Book_4)|Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4]]" (Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter XII: Of the Bloody Sacrifice: and Matters Cognate), sampled from the 2005 documentary "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2748112/ Megiddo II: The New Age]".<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=0u-AChDp4aU|start=9148}}</ref><ref>https://genius.com/39985134</ref>
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There's a magical Operation of maximal importance: the initiation of a New Aeon. 
Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought. 
This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical point of the World Ceremony of the Crowned and Conquering Child, as lord of the Aeon.
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Blood In The Labyrinth

2026-05-31T12:58:51Z

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| name=Blood In The Labyrinth
| runtime=4:55
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

"[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" is the twelfth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

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== Comments ==
* The ending of the track is highly reminiscent of the ending of "[[Collapse]]" from ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 2:10, interviews with rehabilitated PCP (angel dust) addicts from the 1979 anti-drug documentary "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20858530/ Angel Death]".<ref>{{#ev:youtube|ByIB5wlJJQY|480||||start=1290|false}}</ref>
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Quite often I found myself being pretty violent. 
Wanna get it out of you, just wanna fight. 
Just the least thing would really set me off. 
I don't know why but we got in a fight, we were throwing lamps. 
 
I got out of the swimming pool and I watched her. 
Even when she was at the bottom, 
I said 'oh we're bad, now we're doing something', you know. 
And when I finally did dive in and get her, she was already dead. 
And um, after that I just ran off screaming. 
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Into The Magic Land

2026-05-31T12:57:39Z

2600:8800:7187:B600:23AF:51D7:FEE5:592D: Video created for private release night listening party

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| name=Into The Magic Land
| runtime=4:35
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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The Word Becomes Flesh

2026-05-31T12:56:20Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Word Becomes Flesh
| runtime=5:20
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}
"[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" is the tenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

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== Comments ==
* The track title is a direct biblical reference to verse 1:14 of the book of John; "The Word became Flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the on and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

== Samples / Lyrics ==
The source of the speech is sampled from Introduction to Development,<ref>https://archive.org/details/introductiontodevelopment</ref> a 1983 educational film by Vuke, George J. Using time-lapse, close-up photography, and illustrations, this work documents the developmental processes of an amphibian and a bird, covering stages from the fertilized egg to the formation of critical anatomical structures like the nervous system, gut, circulatory system, and heart.

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The head of the embryo grows forward and the gut elongates rearward 
The neural folds meet in the brain region, but do fuse 
At this stage, four pairs of somites, blocks of mesodermal tissue, have formed 
As the head of the embryo grows forward 
The head fold further undercuts its anterior end 
The neural folds fuse to form new sets 
Anterior end develops into a three-part brain 
Early structures of the eye are now prominent 
Meanwhile 
The embryo develops in an equally exciting manner 
In its later stage, a small embryo is already visible 
As a light-colored disk 
Soon, blood vessels appear outside the embryo 
The heart develops and begins to beat 
The pattern of blood vessels over the egg expands 
Supplying the embryo with food and oxygen and removing waste 
As the embryo grows, the brain, eyes, and other structures develop 
Soon, a vigorously beating heart is pumping blood throughout the complex embryo 
Which is rapidly developing into a mature organism 
Part of the blastoderm, the area pellucida, is translucent because it is over a liquid 
And the white of the egg 
Vessels over the yolk expands 
Some of the albumen becomes thickened and twisted as the egg passes down the oviduct 
These rope-like strands, called the chalazae, help to hold the cell in position 
The blastoderm at this stage consists of many cells produced by repeated cell divisions 
While the egg is still within the organism 
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== Trivia ==
* The track was used in the end credits of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26657236/ Backrooms] by [[wikipedia:Kane Parsons|Kane Parsons]], a film based on the [[wikipedia:Backrooms (web series)|web series]] and [[wikipedia:The Backrooms|creepypasta]] of the same name.
** Notably, ''[[Inferno]]'' and the film were released on the same day, May 29th, 2026. How [[wikipedia:A24|A24]] received advanced access to the track is unknown.

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