History Music / TomorrowsHarvest

->''"Tomorrow's Harvest is as strong a return to form as it is stunning an update, with the Scottish duo refining their blend of nostalgic sonics and futuristic sheen."''
-->--'''Boston Globe'''

->''"A lot of this LP does feel like driving by tumbleweeds, rocks, sand and [[Main/BreadEggsMilkSquick coyote corpses]]."''

!! Reach for the Tropes:

** The album's title is often suspected to be a reference to ''Film/DeadlyHarvest'', an obscure 1977 Canadian film starring a young Creator/KimCattrall about a catastrophic climate change that results in widespread crop failures across North America. This is seemingly reflected further by many of the song titles on the album, such as "Cold Earth," "Sick Times" and "New Seeds."
** Although according to the brothers in [[https://bocpages.org/wiki/Les_Champs_de_la_Machine this interview]], it was indeed just a coincidence, though they did note there were some similarities.

* {{Sampling}}: A given, obviously, but possibly the most creative usage is the chanting at the end of "Palace Posy"... is actually a jingle from a 70s Minneapolis television station.

** The album's title is often suspected to be a reference to ''Deadly Harvest'', an obscure 1977 Canadian film starring a young Creator/KimCattrall about a catastrophic climate change that results in widespread crop failures across North America. This is seemingly reflected further by many of the song titles on the album, such as "Cold Earth," "Sick Times" and "New Seeds."

* PunBasedTitle: "Split Your Infinities" (split infinitives)

# "Split Your Infinities" (4:28

* EpicRocking: "Jacquard Causeway."

* FunWithAcronyms: [[http://newcleardawn.com This page]], which is speculated to have been an unused part of the "Tomorrow's Harvest" [=ARG=], features the tagline "Frontline Net Observation Research & Development," which can be abbreviated as [[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} fnord]].

* SignificantMonogram: "Jacquard Causeway," can be abbreviated as "[=JC=]." [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist Wonder what else can be abbreviated as "JC"?]]

* {{Sampling}}: A given, obviously, but possibly the most creative usage is the chanting at the end of "Palace Posy"...actually a jingle from a 70s Minneapolis television station.

''Tomorrow's Harvest'' is the fourth major album by Scottish electronic duo Music/BoardsOfCanada released on June 5th, 2013, following a lengthy Main/AlternateRealityGame. With a unique sound inspired by film soundtracks of the 70s and 80s, it (along with ''Music/{{Geogaddi}}'') demonstrates a more menacing tone than their previous albums. Apart from a few remixes released in 2016 and 2017, and a 2 hour mixtape in 2019, it has been the last original, full-length LP from the brothers.

** "Telepath" isn't the [[Music/{{Geogaddi}} first song]] which has carried the 'NumbersStations' motif.

->''"Tomorrow's Harvest is as strong a return to form as it is stunning an update, with the Scottish duo refining their blend of nostalgic sonics and futuristic sheen"''

->''"A lot of this LP does feel like driving by tumbleweeds, rocks, sand and [[Main/BreadEggsMilkSquick coyote corpses]]"''

* ForeignLanguageTitle: "Transmisiones Ferox" and "Semena Mertvykh," as well as "Cosecha Transmisiones" from the promotional materials. It's worth mentioning that no previous [=BoC=] track did this (except for nouns understood to be proper).

* SignificantMonogram: "Jacquard Causeway," can be abbreviated as "[=JC=]". [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist Wonder what else can be abbreviated as "JC"?]]

* FunWithAcronyms: [[http://newcleardawn.com This page]], which is speculated to have been an unused part of the "Tomorrow's Harvest" [=ARG=], features the tagline "Frontline Net Observation Research & Development." which can be abbreviated as [[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} fnord]].

** The title "Gemini", may be this to the song "Aquarius" from their [[Music/{{MusicHasTheRightToChildren}} first studio album]], as both are [[Main/WesternZodiac Zodiac signs]].

* DownerEnding: "Semena Mertvykh" - Russian for "Seeds of Dead Ones" - rather cruelly reverses the optimism of the earlier song title "New Seeds".
* EpicRocking: "Jacquard Causeway".
* FunWithAcronyms: [[http://newcleardawn.com This page]], which is speculated to have been an unused part of the "Tomorrow's Harvest" [=ARG=], features the tagline "Frontline Net Observation Research & Development", which can be abbreviated as [[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} fnord]].
* ForeignLanguageTitle: "Transmisiones Ferox" and "Semena Mertvykh", as well as "Cosecha Transmisiones" from the promotional materials. It's worth mentioning that no previous [=BoC=] track did this (except for nouns understood to be proper).

* NumbersStations: The "Cosecha Transmisiones" from the promotional campaigns consisted of a series of numbers read off in this style. (The accompanying jingle is actually the end of "New Seeds".)

* OneWordTitle: "Gemini", "Telepath", "Collapse", "Uritual" and "Sundown".

** The album's title is often suspected to be a reference to ''Deadly Harvest'', an obscure 1977 Canadian film starring a young Creator/KimCattrall about a catastrophic climate change that results in widespread crop failures across North America. This is seemingly reflected further by many of the song titles on the album, such as "Cold Earth", "Sick Times", and "New Seeds".

* SignificantAnagram: The title "Palace Posy" is an anagram of "Apocalypse", which seems to be the theme for this album.
* SignificantMonogram: "Jacquard Causeway", can be abbreviated as "[=JC=]". [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist Wonder what else can be abbreviated as "JC"?]]

* ToneShift: "Nothing is Real" sounds like some kind of elevator music from a department store. It's pretty different from the rest of the album.

->''"A lot of this LP does feel like driving by tumbleweeds, rocks, sand and [[Main/BreadEggsMilkSquick coyote corpses"]]''

* OutOfOrder: A common fan theory, more or less initiated by the band themselves, is that the official track order is incorrect. Rather, each of the first eight tracks has a "twin", or reprise, on the opposite end of the album, leaving Collapse (which is identical when played forwards or backwards) as the true final track. It's hard not to notice if you try it out; for example, "Reach For The Dead" has a much smoother transition to "Come To Dust" than "White Cyclosa", the vocals on "Telepath" are similar to those on "Nothing Is Real", and ditto for "Transmisiones Ferox"/"Split Your Infinities".

* {{Homage}}: While not an explicit homage, "White Cyclosa" is highly reminiscent of John Harrison's score for ''[[Film/DayOfTheDead1985 Day of the Dead]]''.

* ShoutOut: The album's title is often suspected to be a reference to ''Deadly Harvest'', an obscure 1977 Canadian film starring a young Creator/KimCattrall about a catastrophic climate change that results in widespread crop failures across North America. This is seemingly reflected further by many of the song titles on the album, such as "Cold Earth", "Sick Times", and "New Seeds".

* CallBack: The title "Gemini", may be this to the song "Aquarius" from their [[Music/{{MusicHasTheRightToChildren}} first studio album]], as both are [[Main/WesternZodiac Zodiac signs]].

* FunWithAcronyms. "Jacquard Causeway", can be abbreviated as "[=JC=]". [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist Wonder what else can be abbreviated as "JC"?]]
** [[http://newcleardawn.com This page]], which is speculated to have been an unused part of the "Tomorrow's Harvest" [=ARG=], features the tagline "Frontline Net Observation Research & Development", which can be abbreviated as [[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} fnord]].