Boards of Canada - 'Tomorrow's Harvest' premiere listening event, Lake Dolores, CA

What this video is

This short film documents one of the most mythologised album premiere events in 21st-century electronic music: Boards of Canada's Tomorrow's Harvest listening event on 27 May 2013 at the derelict Lake Dolores Waterpark in the Mojave Desert, California. The location was revealed only through a cryptic satellite image tweet, part of a broader ARG-style viral marketing campaign beginning on Record Store Day 2013 that…

Why it matters

Tomorrow's Harvest marked Boards of Canada's return after an eight-year hiatus and became a landmark in 2010s ambient/IDM, receiving a Metacritic score of 85. The Lake Dolores film is a canonical document of the era's most elaborate music promotional campaigns, representing the convergence of…

The director

Neil Krug (b. 1983) is an American visual artist, photographer, and director based in Los Angeles, California. Self-taught and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, he rose to prominence following the viral success of his Pulp Art Book (2010), a collection of…