Boards of Canada - Inferno [2LP]

Thirteen years after Tomorrow's Harvest, Boards of Canada break their silence with Inferno, a darker and deeper double LP that sounds like a transmission picked up at the edge of something ominous.

Released in 2026 on Warp, Inferno is the fifth studio album from the Scottish brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, and it arrived the way only they could manage, heralded by mysterious VHS tapes and cryptic posters. Expectations were enormous after such a long silence, and rather than simply revisiting their beloved hazy nostalgia, the duo pushed somewhere colder and far more unsettling.

Introit opens the album like a slow procession, and Prophecy At 1420 MHz, its title borrowing the hydrogen-line frequency that radio astronomers listen on, hums with eerie, half-heard signals. Naraka and Acts Of Magic sink further into the shadows, all warped tape, detuned synths and drums that seem to move through deep water. Running close to seventy minutes, the album rewards patience, with motifs that surface, vanish and return transformed.

It is unmistakably Boards of Canada, only lit by a redder, more threatening glow.

For longtime listeners who spent years decoding every rumor, this double LP is the long-awaited reward, best heard loud, late and without interruption.