Inferno: Boards of Canada Announce Their First Album in 13 Years
- h-music8
- 7 days ago
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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.
And what a tracklist it is. 18 tracks, including titles like Prophecy At 1420 MHz, Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan, Memory Death, and I Saw Through Platonia. The cosmological, the occult, the scientific, classic BoC territory, pushed further into the dark. As a word, Inferno is the most explicit reference to religion and the occult in their work since Geogaddi in 2002.
The album will be available on special edition limited red translucent 2xLP vinyl in a triple gatefold sleeve with a 16-page booklet, as well as standard black vinyl, CD, and digital formats.
May 29th. Mark it.
Boards of Canada — Inferno — May 29, 2026 on Warp Records. Pre-orders open now.
Missed the comeback? Read our piece on Tape 05 first.
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