![]() Every breakbeat, every brass pad, every stacked fifth bears the duo’s indelible signature. ![]() This is clearly a Boards of Canada album there’d be no mistaking it for the work of anyone else. The welcome surprise about Tomorrow’s Harvest is how Boards of Canada have made their own tics and tropes and deeply ingrained habits sound new again. And so their sound world is still heavily based on 1970s nature documentaries, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s evocative whoosh and whir, etc. ![]() Of course it does: This is Boards of Canada, and over the next hour, it becomes abundantly clear that they are still up to their old tricks, which is to say, making the strange sound familiar, and making the deeply (even subliminally) familiar sound newly strange. The album begins with a muted horn fanfare and a squiggle of synthesizers that sounds like something you’d hear over the opening credits of an old film caught on late-night television. ![]() Today, seven SPIN editors give their hasty and completely impulsive opinions. Yesterday, Boards of Canada streamed their first album in eight years, Tomorrow’s Harvest, during a YouTube event.
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