Residual Heat From The Inferno / AC:RW 05.28.26

Residual Heat From The Inferno / AC:RW 05.28.26

Tonight is the eve of release for the first new album from Boards of Canada in 13 years. I’m riding high on the feeling, and I hope you will two for these 105 minutes (I was late because I came right from the Plan 9 listening party. My apologies, loyal listeners) The post Residual Heat From The Inferno / AC:RW 05.28.26 appeared first on WRIR-LP 97.3 FM.

Album Review: Boards of Canada, ‘Inferno’

“Please play the continuous mix for the full listening experience where possible,” reads a note on my promo of Boards of Canada’s first album in 13 years, which is technically split into 18 tracks. Even if I click on individual songs, the stream doesn’t display their actual titles, deterring me from making inferences like, “This is the one where you’re supposed to retreat into time and space,” or, “This is the one where the world becomes flesh.”…

Boards Of Canada's Inferno reviewed – another engrossing puzzle

Last month, Boards Of Canada unveiled their comeback in characteristically opaque fashion. Mysterious VHS tapes were mailed to members of their record label’s mailing list, eerie posters bearing the band’s hexagon sigil appeared overnight in major cities around the world, and a three-minute clip called “Tape 05” was posted on the band’s social feeds. Among feverish online speculation, theories involved a defunct Evangelical Christian magazine an…