It’s been seven years since Boards of Canada‘s last release, the Trans Canada Highway EP, so it’s great to see the brotherly duo will return with their Tomorrow’s Harvest LP on June 11th via Warp. “Reach For The Dead” will be the second track on the new record. To begin, it dives in deep with spacey drones set against a ceremonial “hand-drum” beat. As soft waves of static roll off the simple rhythm, it seems we might be high atop the continental plains for an ancient ritual until an errant blast of electronics introduces an arpeggiating synth line and skittering radioactive beats while we seem to fly off thru the night over some sprawling future-city.
The LA-based director/photographer Neil Krug, famous for his Pulp Art Book, directs a stunning video for the track. However, this doesn’t involve any erotic, gun-totting images of his wife and muse Joni Harbeck. Instead, Krug focuses on large, natural panoramas, using stellar aerial footage and dusty desert shots to echo the track’s wide open expanses.
