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Our Privacy Policy. Some of them are great. What do you look for in terms of musical equipment? In places, the percussion sounds like drum machines, but in other places it feels like you're using live drums…. 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.

As for our percussion, it's never just a drum machine or a sample, we put a lot of real live drumming or percussion in there, woven into the rhythm tracks, and it brings a bit of chaos into the sound that you just can't achieve any other way.

Do you have roles in the studio? Is it possible to divide the workload in any definable way? Sandison: "We throw tracks back and forward at each other. Sometimes we jam the core idea down as a take, or one of us will start something and hand it over, and vice-versa. There isn't really one method or any particular strength for either of us because it changes from track to track.

We both write melodies but at the same time we're both technicians in some way, so the process is quite unpredictable and messy. You've spoken in the past about how mathematics and science have been an inspiration on Boards Of Canada. Another is called Jacquard Causeway, which seems like it might be a reference to the Jacquard Loom , a sort of rudimentary mechanical computer. Have you found more musical ways to integrate mathematics into the fabric of the music on Tomorrow's Harvest?

Sandison: "Yes, it's loaded with patterns and messages. There are various tricks embedded throughout the whole body of this album, so it'll be interesting to see whether people pick up on these things.

Some things are just simple structural things. For instance, Come To Dust , the second-to-last track, is a musical reprise of Reach for the Dead , which comes in as the second track. There's a palindromic structure centred around the track Collapse in the middle.

There's actually more use of subliminals on this record than on any previous album we've done, so we're interested to see what people will pick up on. Reading this on mobile?

There was a lot of speculation that the six-digit codes on the Records Store Day vinyl were a reference to number stations, short-wave radio broadcasts that are thought to be connected to international espionage. The cover appears to be a photo of the San Francisco skyline , shot from the vantage point of Alameda Naval Air Station, a now defunct military base operational during the cold war.

Eoin: "Yeah, definitely — of course that's an ingredient of the theme on this record. In fact if you look again at the San Francisco skyline on the cover it's actually a ghost of the city. You're looking straight through it. A spot of web sleuthing reveals that Tomorrow's Harvest is the name of an online clothing and supplies store that seems to cater for crisis scenarios — frozen and sealed food supplies, gas masks, solar power.

I gather that you're both fathers. Could we maybe read Tomorrow's Harvest as a sort of anxiety or fear for one's offspring in an unstable or uncertain world? Sandison: "Being a father fills you with a healthy understanding of your own mortality, and on a bigger scale that responsibility highlights the fragility of our society, or the problems with it.

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