Boards of Canada announced Inferno on April 22nd. It’s their first album since Tomorrow’s Harvest in 2013, and it comes out May 29 via Warp Records.
The record runs 18 tracks. Physical editions include limited red translucent double vinyl, standard black double vinyl, and CD, each with a 16-page booklet. Digital is available too.
The announcement closed out a monthlong campaign that nobody quite saw coming. VHS tapes arrived unannounced at fans’ homes, filled with static and documentary footage. Posters went up in cities. Then on April 16th, brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin uploaded “Tape 05” to YouTube, three minutes of new music, their first since 2013. Reddit users have since matched the runtime to Father and Son, listed fifth on the album.
The tracklist doesn’t reveal much, which is consistent with the brand. Prophecy At 1420 MHz, Memory Death, Blood In The Labyrinth, I Saw Through Platonia. No interviews. No explanations. Sandison and Eoin have never felt any obligation to narrate what they do, and thirteen years of silence hasn’t changed that.
Inferno is available to pre-order at boardsofcanada.com.
Watch the album trailer for ‘Inferno,’ and check out the tracklist below.
Tracklist:
01 Introit
02 Prophecy At 1420 MHz
03 Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan
04 Age Of Capricorn
05 Father And Son
06 Somewhere Right Now In The Future
07 Naraka
08 Acts Of Magic
09 Memory Death
10 The Word Becomes Flesh
11 Into The Magic Land
12 Blood In The Labyrinth
13 Deep Time
14 All Reason Departs
15 Arena Americanada
16 The Process
17 You Retreat In Time And Space
18 I Saw Through Platonia
