Yup, the list of artists making a welcome return in 2013 grows ever longer (I’ve just taken delivery of the latest releases from David Bowie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Camera Obscura on vinyl. Yum!) To the list we can add Boards Of Canada who will release their first album in ten years, Tomorrow’s Harvest, on June 10.
There have been all sorts of bizarre stories doing the rounds, playbacks in the desert, people paying $5,000 for 12″ singles with 20 seconds of music on it…I’m just glad to see the Scottish duo back, frankly.
The first track to do the rounds is the really rather lovely ‘Reach For The Dead.’ And whilst to the uninitiated that might sound like a metal track, it is a fine and welcome reminder of the sort of excellent electronica that Boards of Canada do oh so very well.
Give yourself five minutes to listen to this. If it doesn’t whet your appetite for the new record, shame on you.
The album tracklisting is as follows:
1. Gemini
2. Reach for the Dead
3. White Cyclosa
4. Jacquard Causeway
5. Telepath
6. Cold Earth
7. Transmisiones Ferox
8. Sick Times
9. Collapse
10. Palace Posy
11. Split Your Infinities
12. Uritual
13. Nothing Is Real
14. Sundown
15. New Seeds
16. Come to Dust
17. Semena Mertvykh
There will be an unveiling of the album at 9PM UK time tomorrow night (Monday June 3), though God only knows how people will be able to pick up on it…