New Music

The transmission has a title. And a date. A week after Tape 05 broke the silence, the picture is now complete. Boards of Canada have officially announced Inferno, their fifth album and first in 13 years, out May 29th via Warp Records. No single accompanies the announcement, and notably, Tape 05 doesn't appear anywhere on the tracklist. Whether it was a standalone transmission or simply the opening signal of something larger, the album itself arrives as its own separate world.

Two of music's most uncompromising voices. One track. And a world that gave them every reason to make it. On April 16th, 2026, the same day Boards of Canada broke their own silence, Massive Attack dropped Boots on the Ground , their first new music in six years. The feature? Tom Waits. The subject? The state of the world. The tone? Exactly as dark as you'd expect, and then some. A Collaboration Years in the Making As Tom Waits said: "One day many years ago I accepted an invit

Thirteen years. No interviews. No explanations. Just a three-minute track uploaded on Youtube, like a transmission from another dimension. On April 16th, 2026, Boards of Canada, the elusive Scottish duo of Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, broke their silence with Tape 05, their first new music since Tomorrow's Harvest (2013). Released via Warp Records with no press release, no album announcement, no context of any kind, it arrived exactly the way you'd expect from the duo: o

New Music of the week Week 16, April 17, 2026 COME CLOSER by TOMORA, AURORA, The Chemical Brothers Electronic / psychedelic / art pop Otherworldly, euphoric, genre-spanning MR COBRA by Lucy Liyou Via Orange Milk Records Free jazz / Musique concrète / experimental pop Visceral, fractured, darkly funny Nine Inch Noize by Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize Via Interscope Records Electro-industrial / industrial techno Brutal, feral, dancefloor-ready The World Is Not Good Enough by Sean