Boards of Canada return from the mist with Inferno

Boards of Canada returning with a new album is not just another release date on the calendar. It is the kind of event that makes electronic music fans start checking old websites, decoding symbols, staring at VHS static and pretending that all of this is perfectly normal adult behaviour. Inferno arrives on 29 May via Warp, marking the Scottish duo’s first studio album since Tomorrow’s Harvest in 2013. The record comes after a characteristically cryptic build-up involving teasers, visual clues and the sort of occult-leaning atmosphere that Boards of Canada have always turned into a language of their own. Musically, this is still their world: hazy analogue textures, uneasy nostalgia, strange samples and beats that feel like they were discovered in a school cupboard after the apocalypse. Whether Inferno becomes a classic or a divisive comeback, the bigger point is simple. Boards of Canada still understand how to make a release feel like an event, not just content pushed into the algorithm at midnight. Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/new-album-releases/