Photo Peter Iain Campbell It's here. Thirteen years after Tomorrow's Harvest, the Hexagon Sun is burning. Inferno, the fifth Boards of Canada album, dropped today on Warp Records, and it arrives not as a nostalgia trip, but as a genuine statement. Darker, denser, and more direct than anything they've released before, it sounds like a band who spent thirteen years with a specific vision and refused to release it until it was exactly right. One Album, One Listen The promo itsel

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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.

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