After a Prolonged Absence, Boards of Canada Fires-Up With ‘Inferno’: Stream It Now

Boards of Canada, 'Inferno' Album Review

We often think of time as a linear sequence of events. We experience it from point A to point B, following a straight, fixed line, each of our days building upon itself like a long run of dominoes. But time is abstract, as British theoretical physicist Julian Barbour argues in his seminal text The End of Time. He posits that we have “no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it.” …

After a Prolonged Absence, Boards of Canada Fires-Up With ‘Inferno’: Stream It Now

Finally, Boards of Canada are back. With the album Inferno, which arrived in full at the stroke of midnight via Warp Records, the Scottish electronic duo brings to an end a 13-year drought. Only the most optimistic of fans had new BoC music marked on their calendars for 2026, and yet here we are. Inferno arrives as Europe swelters through a heatwave, as the world burns. As previously reported here, the 18-track double set plays to 70 minutes…

Boards of Canada return with new album Inferno, out now via Warp Records

Boards of Canada have released their long-awaited fifth studio album Inferno, out now via Warp Records.  The new record, created by Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, marks the duo’s first full-length project in over a decade and arrives with significant anticipation following years of speculation and low-key activity.  Inferno is available now across multiple formats, including a special edition limited red translucent 2LP vinyl housed in a trip…