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Seven Forty Seven

2026-08-13T20:55:53Z

Phin: new sample discovery

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== Comments ==
=== 2002 Website ===

[[File:Tellia.mp3]]

*An early version of this track was featured on the [[Boards of Canada]] website in 2002 (now available [http://www.atomless.com/projects/boc/site/ here]) as an infinite interactive loop. The playback could be controlled via keyboard, making it possible to hear distinct parts of the track separately.
*The Shockwave Director file for the track featured on the 2002 website was named "tellia".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020508191937/http://www.boardsofcanada.com/tellia.dcr</ref>
=== Warp20 ===
*"[[Seven Forty Seven]]" was released in 2009 on [http://www.discogs.com/release/2024532 Warp20 (Unheard)] as the first track.
*According to the Boards of Canada official twitter, the version which appeared on Warp20 is from 2003. <ref>https://twitter.com/boctransmission/status/933710555675791360</ref>
*[[MDG]]: "If you listen very closely to the release version, you'll hear Freddie Mercury."<ref>https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=165176#p165176</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Contains an eerie choir element that also appears in "[[R35TT A06]]", but here it is faster.
* Contains the "take my hand" vocal sample also used in "[[You Could Feel The Sky]]".
* Contains a piano sample from the ending of a Brian Chatton track Smooth Touch <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARidS10oq8</ref>.
* Contains a drum loop sample from Zero G - Datafile Two (Drumloop 8) sample library or samples Simon Harris - 110 BPM (Dancefloor Justice) from an album of breakbeats. These are exactly the same.
* Contains a sample of "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles, only audible when slowed down to around 20% of the original song.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1vnkos6/just_discovered_that_seven_forty_seven_samples/</ref>

== Trivia ==
* "[[Seven Forty Seven]]" is in reference to the [[wikipedia:Boeing 747|Boeing 747]] aircraft, which was first entered into service in 1970. Many themes of BoC's music involve references to air travel and the 1970's.
* Fans have speculated the number Seven-Forty-Seven could be a devious reference to 666. If added literally, 7 plus 40 plus 7 equals 54, which is also 9 times 6. Nine sixes could be written out as 666 666 666.
* Officially, "[[Seven Forty Seven]]" can be played at both 33 1/3 and 45 rpm, revealing different elements of the song in each version played. Fans have also said that on release, some digital copies of Warp10 included the 45rpm version instead of the 33 1/3 version. This was particularly noted on iTunes. <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/lyhl0p/comment/gpsp9v2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button</ref>

== Videos ==
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== External links==

== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]

Inferno

2026-04-22T19:02:37Z

Phin: Trivia: strengthen 70 references with explicit BoC citations — Smallest Weird Number (= 70, 1:10 melody cut), Sixtyten (= 70 spelled out, sample sourced from 1:10), MHTRTC US reissue 70:42

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| label=Warp Records
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'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

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== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is '''Dante Alighieri''''s first canticle of the ''Divine Comedy'' (c. 1308–1320), the descent through the nine circles of hell. The album's 18 tracks thus naturally read as 9 + 9 — descent and ascent, ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' — with the closing "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" supplying the ''Paradiso'''s beatific vision. Taken title by title, ''Inferno'' is the most '''explicitly religious and mystical record''' in the [[Boards of Canada]] catalogue — a far more concentrated pursuit of the cult-and-scripture thread that ran through ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

=== Christian Liturgy ===
* "[[Introit]]" — the processional opening of a Catholic Mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" — the first two persons of the Holy Trinity.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" — direct citation of the Gospel of John 1:14 (the Incarnation).

=== Eastern Religions ===
* "[[Naraka]]" — the hell realms of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh cosmology.
* "[[Memory Death]]" — dissolution of memory in the Tibetan bardo (''Bardo Thödol'').

=== Occult, Magick, and New Religious Movements ===
* "[[Acts Of Magic]]" — Crowleyan '''Magick''' as the art of change conforming to will.
* "[[The Process]]" — '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''', 1960s – 70s new-religious / cult movement (Robert de Grimston, ex-Scientology), syncretising Christ / Satan / Jehovah / Lucifer.
* "[[Into The Magic Land]]" — the mystical Otherworld / Faerie / land of the dead.

=== Prophecy, Cosmos, Creation ===
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" — the '''hydrogen line''', the SETI frequency, framed prophetically.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" — Big Bang nucleosynthesis + the biblical sea-monster of Job 41 / Psalm 74 / Isaiah 27:1.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" — astrological / precessional age (Capricorn = the ''sea-goat'').
* "[[Deep Time]]" — geological time as the Hindu/Buddhist ''kalpa'', as eternity.

=== Sacrifice and Martyrdom ===
* "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" — the Cretan Minotaur myth, the ritual sacrifice of Athenian youths, and the Chartres labyrinth as medieval pilgrimage substitute.
* "[[Arena Americanada]]" — the '''Roman arena''' as the space of martyrdom / gladiatorial spectacle, portmanteau'd through '''America''' / '''Canada''' / '''''Americana'''''.

=== Contemplation, Time Transcendence, Vision ===
* "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" — the theological ''nunc stans'', divine timelessness.
* "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" — the monastic / Buddhist '''retreat'''.
* "[[All Reason Departs]]" — Goya's "sleep of reason breeds monsters" paired with the mystical ''via negativa'' / apophatic tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing'').
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" — physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s timeless configuration-space of the universe, read through '''Plato''''s ladder of ascent and the Neoplatonic / Christian-mystical tradition of "seeing through" appearance to the One. The album's closing '''beatific vision'''.

=== Structural Note ===
At '''18 tracks''' the album naturally divides 9 + 9, mirroring Dante's '''9 circles of hell''' (doubled for descent-and-ascent, or Inferno-and-Purgatorio). The shape moves: '''liturgical entry''' ("[[Introit]]") → '''prophetic cosmos''' → '''Trinity''' → '''eschatology''' → '''Eastern hell''' → '''occult practice''' → '''Buddhist memory-death''' → '''Incarnation''' → '''mystical pilgrimage''' → '''sacrificial myth''' → '''deep time''' → '''ecstatic unreason''' → '''arena / martyrdom''' → '''cult''' → '''retreat''' → '''beatific vision'''.

== Trivia ==

=== Catalogue number 496 ===

The ''Inferno'' vinyl, CD and digital editions carry the catalogue numbers '''WARPLP496''', '''WARPCD496''' and '''WARP496''' respectively. 496 appears to be a deliberate choice rather than the next number in Warp's sequence:

* The immediately preceding Warp albums carry much lower catalogue numbers — Nala Sinephro's ''Endlessness'' is [https://yoyaku.io/release/nala-sinephro-endlessness-lp-warplp358/ WARPLP358] (Sept 2024), [[wikipedia:Kwes|kwes]]'s ''Kinds'' is WARPLP400 (27 Feb 2026), and [[wikipedia:Squarepusher|Squarepusher]]'s April 2026 release is WARPLP417. Seven weeks after Squarepusher at 417, the catalogue jumps 79 numbers straight to 496 for ''Inferno''.
* Warp's digital (WARPDA) sequence shows the same jump: recent numbers include WARPDA408, 411, 414, 415, 417, then skip to WARPDA496 as the digital SKU for ''Inferno''.<ref>https://warp.net/discography</ref>

'''496 is mathematically and physically significant in several ways:'''

* It is the '''third perfect number''' — a positive integer equal to the sum of its proper divisors: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248 = 496. The first two perfect numbers are 6 and 28. 496 = 2<sup>4</sup>·(2<sup>5</sup> − 1), where 31 is a [[wikipedia:Mersenne prime|Mersenne prime]].
* It is the '''31st [[wikipedia:Triangular number|triangular number]]''' — the sum of all integers from 1 to 31.
* In theoretical physics, '''496 is the dimension of the gauge groups E<sub>8</sub>×E<sub>8</sub> and SO(32)''' — the two groups that allow [[wikipedia:Heterotic string|heterotic string theory]] to be anomaly-free under the [[wikipedia:Green–Schwarz mechanism|Green–Schwarz mechanism]] (1984). It is one of the most recognisable numbers in 20th-century mathematical physics.

The choice is consistent with [[Boards of Canada]]'s history of numerical encoding (e.g. ''[[Geogaddi]]'' contains 23 tracks tied to the "23 Enigma" / Discordianism, a 66:06 running time read as 666, and a Japanese release date of 13 February 2002 keyed to Revelation 13:18) and with the album's pervasive physics and cosmology references — see "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]", "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]", "[[Deep Time]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]".

=== Running time 70:00 ===

The album proper runs '''69:51'''. However, a companion digital release — '''''Inferno (Continuous Mix)''''', issued alongside the album on 29 May 2026 via [[Bleep.com|Bleep]] as a standalone pre-order in MP3, FLAC and WAV 24-bit formats<ref>https://bleep.com/release/590977-boards-of-canada-inferno-continuous-mix</ref> — is '''exactly 70:00''' in length. The round 70-minute target appears deliberate.

70 carries dense religious and mystical weight that is consistent with the album's cross-tradition themes:

* '''[[wikipedia:Septuagint|Septuagint]]''' (LXX, literally "seventy") — the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, legendarily produced by 70 (or 72) translators under Ptolemy II. It is the Old Testament used by the early Christian Church and remains the canonical text of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. A natural pairing with "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]".
* '''The 70 disciples''' sent out by Jesus in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A1 Luke 10:1], mirroring the '''70 nations''' of Genesis 10's Table of Nations — the traditional list of all the peoples of the world.
* '''70 elders of Israel''' (Numbers 11:16-25), the original [[wikipedia:Sanhedrin|Sanhedrin]] — the body that, in the Gospel narratives, tries Jesus.
* '''70 years of Babylonian exile''' (Jeremiah 25:11, 29:10) — an exact span of captivity and return. Thematically adjacent to "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]".
* '''[[wikipedia:Seventy weeks|Daniel's 70 weeks]]''' (Daniel 9:24-27) — one of the most famous apocalyptic prophecies in scripture, spelling out the sequence leading to "the end of desolations". A direct parallel to "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" and the album title's descent-and-judgement frame.
* In Kabbalah, '''the 70 names of God''' and the ''70 faces of Torah'' — each verse holding 70 legitimate readings.

'''The number 70 is a long-running, explicit motif inside [[Boards of Canada]]'s own catalogue:'''

* '''"[[The Smallest Weird Number]]"''' (track 9 on ''[[Geogaddi]]'', 2002) — the title is a direct mathematical reference to '''70''', the smallest [[wikipedia:Weird number|weird number]] (an [[wikipedia:Abundant number|abundant]] integer that is not [[wikipedia:Semiperfect number|semiperfect]]). The Geogaddi track article makes the tie explicit: ''"'The Smallest Weird Number' is 70. As in [[Music70]], [[Boards of Canada]]'s own label."'' Further: although the track runs 1:17, its melody cuts out at exactly '''1:10 — i.e. 70 seconds''' — embedding the number in the track's construction as well as its title.
* '''"[[Sixtyten]]"''' (on ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'', 1998) — the title is the number '''70 written out as "sixty + ten"''', an archaic / Anglo-Saxon form. The track's own lyric samples even extract their Earth, Wind & Fire source from '''1:10''' of the original record — the same 70-second timestamp as the ''Smallest Weird Number'' melody break.
* '''''[[Music70]]''''' (also written ''[[Music70.com]]'') — [[Mike Sandison|Mike]] and [[Marcus Eoin|Marcus]]'s own art, film and design collective, owned and operated out of [[Hexagon Sun]]. The "70" is baked into the band's visual identity and has appeared as a matrix etching on BoC vinyl.
* '''''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]''''' in its US / 2004 Warp reissue edition — the definitive extended form of the debut album, with "[[Happy Cycling]]" appended — has a running time of '''70:42'''. In other words, the band's canonical first album (in its reissue form) and ''Inferno'' (in its Continuous Mix form) both land at ~70 minutes.
* '''"[[1969]]"''' (''[[Geogaddi]]'', 2002) and '''"[[Seven Forty Seven]]"''' (Warp20 Unheard, 2009) extend the pattern of numerical-title tracks that reference the late-1960s / 1970s cultural moment.
* The [[Boards of Canada]] sound-world is explicitly identified — on the band's own wiki entry — with "the late seventies and early eighties when there were psychedelic videos on [[Sesame Street]], and the Cold War was in full swing." The 1970s [[National Film Board of Canada]] documentary-score palette is the project's foundational sample-and-production aesthetic.

Taken with the 496-number catalogue choice above, the running time strengthens the reading that ''Inferno'' is numerologically constructed: '''70 (biblical / Kabbalistic completeness)''' and '''496 (the third perfect number; anomaly-cancellation in heterotic string theory)'''.

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

== References ==
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Inferno

2026-04-22T18:59:18Z

Phin: Trivia: add in-catalogue 70 references — Music70 collective, 1970s NFB/Sesame aesthetic (cited from BoC wiki entry), "Seven Forty Seven"

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| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital <br> Continuous Mix (digital-only, 70:00)
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP496 (2xLP) <br> WARPCD496 (CD) <br> WARP496 (digital)
| runtime=69:51
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'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

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== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is '''Dante Alighieri''''s first canticle of the ''Divine Comedy'' (c. 1308–1320), the descent through the nine circles of hell. The album's 18 tracks thus naturally read as 9 + 9 — descent and ascent, ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' — with the closing "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" supplying the ''Paradiso'''s beatific vision. Taken title by title, ''Inferno'' is the most '''explicitly religious and mystical record''' in the [[Boards of Canada]] catalogue — a far more concentrated pursuit of the cult-and-scripture thread that ran through ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

=== Christian Liturgy ===
* "[[Introit]]" — the processional opening of a Catholic Mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" — the first two persons of the Holy Trinity.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" — direct citation of the Gospel of John 1:14 (the Incarnation).

=== Eastern Religions ===
* "[[Naraka]]" — the hell realms of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh cosmology.
* "[[Memory Death]]" — dissolution of memory in the Tibetan bardo (''Bardo Thödol'').

=== Occult, Magick, and New Religious Movements ===
* "[[Acts Of Magic]]" — Crowleyan '''Magick''' as the art of change conforming to will.
* "[[The Process]]" — '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''', 1960s – 70s new-religious / cult movement (Robert de Grimston, ex-Scientology), syncretising Christ / Satan / Jehovah / Lucifer.
* "[[Into The Magic Land]]" — the mystical Otherworld / Faerie / land of the dead.

=== Prophecy, Cosmos, Creation ===
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" — the '''hydrogen line''', the SETI frequency, framed prophetically.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" — Big Bang nucleosynthesis + the biblical sea-monster of Job 41 / Psalm 74 / Isaiah 27:1.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" — astrological / precessional age (Capricorn = the ''sea-goat'').
* "[[Deep Time]]" — geological time as the Hindu/Buddhist ''kalpa'', as eternity.

=== Sacrifice and Martyrdom ===
* "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" — the Cretan Minotaur myth, the ritual sacrifice of Athenian youths, and the Chartres labyrinth as medieval pilgrimage substitute.
* "[[Arena Americanada]]" — the '''Roman arena''' as the space of martyrdom / gladiatorial spectacle, portmanteau'd through '''America''' / '''Canada''' / '''''Americana'''''.

=== Contemplation, Time Transcendence, Vision ===
* "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" — the theological ''nunc stans'', divine timelessness.
* "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" — the monastic / Buddhist '''retreat'''.
* "[[All Reason Departs]]" — Goya's "sleep of reason breeds monsters" paired with the mystical ''via negativa'' / apophatic tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing'').
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" — physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s timeless configuration-space of the universe, read through '''Plato''''s ladder of ascent and the Neoplatonic / Christian-mystical tradition of "seeing through" appearance to the One. The album's closing '''beatific vision'''.

=== Structural Note ===
At '''18 tracks''' the album naturally divides 9 + 9, mirroring Dante's '''9 circles of hell''' (doubled for descent-and-ascent, or Inferno-and-Purgatorio). The shape moves: '''liturgical entry''' ("[[Introit]]") → '''prophetic cosmos''' → '''Trinity''' → '''eschatology''' → '''Eastern hell''' → '''occult practice''' → '''Buddhist memory-death''' → '''Incarnation''' → '''mystical pilgrimage''' → '''sacrificial myth''' → '''deep time''' → '''ecstatic unreason''' → '''arena / martyrdom''' → '''cult''' → '''retreat''' → '''beatific vision'''.

== Trivia ==

=== Catalogue number 496 ===

The ''Inferno'' vinyl, CD and digital editions carry the catalogue numbers '''WARPLP496''', '''WARPCD496''' and '''WARP496''' respectively. 496 appears to be a deliberate choice rather than the next number in Warp's sequence:

* The immediately preceding Warp albums carry much lower catalogue numbers — Nala Sinephro's ''Endlessness'' is [https://yoyaku.io/release/nala-sinephro-endlessness-lp-warplp358/ WARPLP358] (Sept 2024), [[wikipedia:Kwes|kwes]]'s ''Kinds'' is WARPLP400 (27 Feb 2026), and [[wikipedia:Squarepusher|Squarepusher]]'s April 2026 release is WARPLP417. Seven weeks after Squarepusher at 417, the catalogue jumps 79 numbers straight to 496 for ''Inferno''.
* Warp's digital (WARPDA) sequence shows the same jump: recent numbers include WARPDA408, 411, 414, 415, 417, then skip to WARPDA496 as the digital SKU for ''Inferno''.<ref>https://warp.net/discography</ref>

'''496 is mathematically and physically significant in several ways:'''

* It is the '''third perfect number''' — a positive integer equal to the sum of its proper divisors: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248 = 496. The first two perfect numbers are 6 and 28. 496 = 2<sup>4</sup>·(2<sup>5</sup> − 1), where 31 is a [[wikipedia:Mersenne prime|Mersenne prime]].
* It is the '''31st [[wikipedia:Triangular number|triangular number]]''' — the sum of all integers from 1 to 31.
* In theoretical physics, '''496 is the dimension of the gauge groups E<sub>8</sub>×E<sub>8</sub> and SO(32)''' — the two groups that allow [[wikipedia:Heterotic string|heterotic string theory]] to be anomaly-free under the [[wikipedia:Green–Schwarz mechanism|Green–Schwarz mechanism]] (1984). It is one of the most recognisable numbers in 20th-century mathematical physics.

The choice is consistent with [[Boards of Canada]]'s history of numerical encoding (e.g. ''[[Geogaddi]]'' contains 23 tracks tied to the "23 Enigma" / Discordianism, a 66:06 running time read as 666, and a Japanese release date of 13 February 2002 keyed to Revelation 13:18) and with the album's pervasive physics and cosmology references — see "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]", "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]", "[[Deep Time]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]".

=== Running time 70:00 ===

The album proper runs '''69:51'''. However, a companion digital release — '''''Inferno (Continuous Mix)''''', issued alongside the album on 29 May 2026 via [[Bleep.com|Bleep]] as a standalone pre-order in MP3, FLAC and WAV 24-bit formats<ref>https://bleep.com/release/590977-boards-of-canada-inferno-continuous-mix</ref> — is '''exactly 70:00''' in length. The round 70-minute target appears deliberate.

70 carries dense religious and mystical weight that is consistent with the album's cross-tradition themes:

* '''[[wikipedia:Septuagint|Septuagint]]''' (LXX, literally "seventy") — the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, legendarily produced by 70 (or 72) translators under Ptolemy II. It is the Old Testament used by the early Christian Church and remains the canonical text of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. A natural pairing with "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]".
* '''The 70 disciples''' sent out by Jesus in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A1 Luke 10:1], mirroring the '''70 nations''' of Genesis 10's Table of Nations — the traditional list of all the peoples of the world.
* '''70 elders of Israel''' (Numbers 11:16-25), the original [[wikipedia:Sanhedrin|Sanhedrin]] — the body that, in the Gospel narratives, tries Jesus.
* '''70 years of Babylonian exile''' (Jeremiah 25:11, 29:10) — an exact span of captivity and return. Thematically adjacent to "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]".
* '''[[wikipedia:Seventy weeks|Daniel's 70 weeks]]''' (Daniel 9:24-27) — one of the most famous apocalyptic prophecies in scripture, spelling out the sequence leading to "the end of desolations". A direct parallel to "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" and the album title's descent-and-judgement frame.
* In Kabbalah, '''the 70 names of God''' and the ''70 faces of Torah'' — each verse holding 70 legitimate readings.

'''The number 70 also recurs inside [[Boards of Canada]]'s own catalogue and self-presentation:'''

* '''''[[Music70]]''''' (also written ''[[Music70.com]]'') — the brothers' own art, film and design collective, owned and operated by [[Mike Sandison|Mike]] and [[Marcus Eoin|Marcus]] out of [[Hexagon Sun]]. The "70" in the name is embedded in the band's decades-long visual identity and has appeared as a matrix etching on several vinyl releases.
* The [[Boards of Canada]] sound-world is explicitly identified — on the band's own wiki entry — with "the late seventies and early eighties when there were psychedelic videos on [[Sesame Street]], and the Cold War was in full swing." The 1970s [[National Film Board of Canada]] documentary-score palette is the foundational sample-and-production aesthetic of the project.
* "[[Seven Forty Seven]]" (Warp20 Unheard, 2009; written c. 2003) — a track whose title centres on the digits ''7-4-7'' (after the Boeing 747), part of the band's recurring numerological title practice alongside "[[1969]]" and "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]".

Taken with the 496-number catalogue choice above, the running time strengthens the reading that ''Inferno'' is numerologically constructed: '''70 (biblical / Kabbalistic completeness)''' and '''496 (the third perfect number; anomaly-cancellation in heterotic string theory)'''.

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Inferno]]
{{Nav-Releases}}

Inferno

2026-04-22T18:56:57Z

Phin: Add Trivia subsection on 70:00 Continuous Mix runtime (biblical 70s — Septuagint, 70 disciples/nations, 70 elders, 70 years exile, Daniel 70 weeks, 70 names of God); note Continuous Mix as standalone SKU in infobox

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital <br> Continuous Mix (digital-only, 70:00)
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP496 (2xLP) <br> WARPCD496 (CD) <br> WARP496 (digital)
| runtime=69:51
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

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== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is '''Dante Alighieri''''s first canticle of the ''Divine Comedy'' (c. 1308–1320), the descent through the nine circles of hell. The album's 18 tracks thus naturally read as 9 + 9 — descent and ascent, ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' — with the closing "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" supplying the ''Paradiso'''s beatific vision. Taken title by title, ''Inferno'' is the most '''explicitly religious and mystical record''' in the [[Boards of Canada]] catalogue — a far more concentrated pursuit of the cult-and-scripture thread that ran through ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

=== Christian Liturgy ===
* "[[Introit]]" — the processional opening of a Catholic Mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" — the first two persons of the Holy Trinity.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" — direct citation of the Gospel of John 1:14 (the Incarnation).

=== Eastern Religions ===
* "[[Naraka]]" — the hell realms of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh cosmology.
* "[[Memory Death]]" — dissolution of memory in the Tibetan bardo (''Bardo Thödol'').

=== Occult, Magick, and New Religious Movements ===
* "[[Acts Of Magic]]" — Crowleyan '''Magick''' as the art of change conforming to will.
* "[[The Process]]" — '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''', 1960s – 70s new-religious / cult movement (Robert de Grimston, ex-Scientology), syncretising Christ / Satan / Jehovah / Lucifer.
* "[[Into The Magic Land]]" — the mystical Otherworld / Faerie / land of the dead.

=== Prophecy, Cosmos, Creation ===
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" — the '''hydrogen line''', the SETI frequency, framed prophetically.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" — Big Bang nucleosynthesis + the biblical sea-monster of Job 41 / Psalm 74 / Isaiah 27:1.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" — astrological / precessional age (Capricorn = the ''sea-goat'').
* "[[Deep Time]]" — geological time as the Hindu/Buddhist ''kalpa'', as eternity.

=== Sacrifice and Martyrdom ===
* "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" — the Cretan Minotaur myth, the ritual sacrifice of Athenian youths, and the Chartres labyrinth as medieval pilgrimage substitute.
* "[[Arena Americanada]]" — the '''Roman arena''' as the space of martyrdom / gladiatorial spectacle, portmanteau'd through '''America''' / '''Canada''' / '''''Americana'''''.

=== Contemplation, Time Transcendence, Vision ===
* "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" — the theological ''nunc stans'', divine timelessness.
* "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" — the monastic / Buddhist '''retreat'''.
* "[[All Reason Departs]]" — Goya's "sleep of reason breeds monsters" paired with the mystical ''via negativa'' / apophatic tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing'').
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" — physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s timeless configuration-space of the universe, read through '''Plato''''s ladder of ascent and the Neoplatonic / Christian-mystical tradition of "seeing through" appearance to the One. The album's closing '''beatific vision'''.

=== Structural Note ===
At '''18 tracks''' the album naturally divides 9 + 9, mirroring Dante's '''9 circles of hell''' (doubled for descent-and-ascent, or Inferno-and-Purgatorio). The shape moves: '''liturgical entry''' ("[[Introit]]") → '''prophetic cosmos''' → '''Trinity''' → '''eschatology''' → '''Eastern hell''' → '''occult practice''' → '''Buddhist memory-death''' → '''Incarnation''' → '''mystical pilgrimage''' → '''sacrificial myth''' → '''deep time''' → '''ecstatic unreason''' → '''arena / martyrdom''' → '''cult''' → '''retreat''' → '''beatific vision'''.

== Trivia ==

=== Catalogue number 496 ===

The ''Inferno'' vinyl, CD and digital editions carry the catalogue numbers '''WARPLP496''', '''WARPCD496''' and '''WARP496''' respectively. 496 appears to be a deliberate choice rather than the next number in Warp's sequence:

* The immediately preceding Warp albums carry much lower catalogue numbers — Nala Sinephro's ''Endlessness'' is [https://yoyaku.io/release/nala-sinephro-endlessness-lp-warplp358/ WARPLP358] (Sept 2024), [[wikipedia:Kwes|kwes]]'s ''Kinds'' is WARPLP400 (27 Feb 2026), and [[wikipedia:Squarepusher|Squarepusher]]'s April 2026 release is WARPLP417. Seven weeks after Squarepusher at 417, the catalogue jumps 79 numbers straight to 496 for ''Inferno''.
* Warp's digital (WARPDA) sequence shows the same jump: recent numbers include WARPDA408, 411, 414, 415, 417, then skip to WARPDA496 as the digital SKU for ''Inferno''.<ref>https://warp.net/discography</ref>

'''496 is mathematically and physically significant in several ways:'''

* It is the '''third perfect number''' — a positive integer equal to the sum of its proper divisors: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248 = 496. The first two perfect numbers are 6 and 28. 496 = 2<sup>4</sup>·(2<sup>5</sup> − 1), where 31 is a [[wikipedia:Mersenne prime|Mersenne prime]].
* It is the '''31st [[wikipedia:Triangular number|triangular number]]''' — the sum of all integers from 1 to 31.
* In theoretical physics, '''496 is the dimension of the gauge groups E<sub>8</sub>×E<sub>8</sub> and SO(32)''' — the two groups that allow [[wikipedia:Heterotic string|heterotic string theory]] to be anomaly-free under the [[wikipedia:Green–Schwarz mechanism|Green–Schwarz mechanism]] (1984). It is one of the most recognisable numbers in 20th-century mathematical physics.

The choice is consistent with [[Boards of Canada]]'s history of numerical encoding (e.g. ''[[Geogaddi]]'' contains 23 tracks tied to the "23 Enigma" / Discordianism, a 66:06 running time read as 666, and a Japanese release date of 13 February 2002 keyed to Revelation 13:18) and with the album's pervasive physics and cosmology references — see "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]", "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]", "[[Deep Time]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]".

=== Running time 70:00 ===

The album proper runs '''69:51'''. However, a companion digital release — '''''Inferno (Continuous Mix)''''', issued alongside the album on 29 May 2026 via [[Bleep.com|Bleep]] as a standalone pre-order in MP3, FLAC and WAV 24-bit formats<ref>https://bleep.com/release/590977-boards-of-canada-inferno-continuous-mix</ref> — is '''exactly 70:00''' in length. The round 70-minute target appears deliberate.

70 carries dense religious and mystical weight that is consistent with the album's cross-tradition themes:

* '''[[wikipedia:Septuagint|Septuagint]]''' (LXX, literally "seventy") — the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, legendarily produced by 70 (or 72) translators under Ptolemy II. It is the Old Testament used by the early Christian Church and remains the canonical text of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. A natural pairing with "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]".
* '''The 70 disciples''' sent out by Jesus in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A1 Luke 10:1], mirroring the '''70 nations''' of Genesis 10's Table of Nations — the traditional list of all the peoples of the world.
* '''70 elders of Israel''' (Numbers 11:16-25), the original [[wikipedia:Sanhedrin|Sanhedrin]] — the body that, in the Gospel narratives, tries Jesus.
* '''70 years of Babylonian exile''' (Jeremiah 25:11, 29:10) — an exact span of captivity and return. Thematically adjacent to "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]".
* '''[[wikipedia:Seventy weeks|Daniel's 70 weeks]]''' (Daniel 9:24-27) — one of the most famous apocalyptic prophecies in scripture, spelling out the sequence leading to "the end of desolations". A direct parallel to "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" and the album title's descent-and-judgement frame.
* In Kabbalah, '''the 70 names of God''' and the ''70 faces of Torah'' — each verse holding 70 legitimate readings.

Taken with the 496-number catalogue choice above, the running time strengthens the reading that ''Inferno'' is numerologically constructed: '''70 (biblical / Kabbalistic completeness)''' and '''496 (the third perfect number; anomaly-cancellation in heterotic string theory)'''.

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Inferno]]
{{Nav-Releases}}

Road to Inferno

2026-04-22T15:45:52Z

Phin: Fix Trivia: replace unsourced 33 reference with verifiable Geogaddi numerological claims (23 tracks, 66:06, Rev 13:18)

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP496 (2xLP) <br> WARPCD496 (CD) <br> WARP496 (digital)
| runtime=69:51
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

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__TOC__
</div>

== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is '''Dante Alighieri''''s first canticle of the ''Divine Comedy'' (c. 1308–1320), the descent through the nine circles of hell. The album's 18 tracks thus naturally read as 9 + 9 — descent and ascent, ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' — with the closing "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" supplying the ''Paradiso'''s beatific vision. Taken title by title, ''Inferno'' is the most '''explicitly religious and mystical record''' in the [[Boards of Canada]] catalogue — a far more concentrated pursuit of the cult-and-scripture thread that ran through ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

=== Christian Liturgy ===
* "[[Introit]]" — the processional opening of a Catholic Mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" — the first two persons of the Holy Trinity.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" — direct citation of the Gospel of John 1:14 (the Incarnation).

=== Eastern Religions ===
* "[[Naraka]]" — the hell realms of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh cosmology.
* "[[Memory Death]]" — dissolution of memory in the Tibetan bardo (''Bardo Thödol'').

=== Occult, Magick, and New Religious Movements ===
* "[[Acts Of Magic]]" — Crowleyan '''Magick''' as the art of change conforming to will.
* "[[The Process]]" — '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''', 1960s – 70s new-religious / cult movement (Robert de Grimston, ex-Scientology), syncretising Christ / Satan / Jehovah / Lucifer.
* "[[Into The Magic Land]]" — the mystical Otherworld / Faerie / land of the dead.

=== Prophecy, Cosmos, Creation ===
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" — the '''hydrogen line''', the SETI frequency, framed prophetically.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" — Big Bang nucleosynthesis + the biblical sea-monster of Job 41 / Psalm 74 / Isaiah 27:1.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" — astrological / precessional age (Capricorn = the ''sea-goat'').
* "[[Deep Time]]" — geological time as the Hindu/Buddhist ''kalpa'', as eternity.

=== Sacrifice and Martyrdom ===
* "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" — the Cretan Minotaur myth, the ritual sacrifice of Athenian youths, and the Chartres labyrinth as medieval pilgrimage substitute.
* "[[Arena Americanada]]" — the '''Roman arena''' as the space of martyrdom / gladiatorial spectacle, portmanteau'd through '''America''' / '''Canada''' / '''''Americana'''''.

=== Contemplation, Time Transcendence, Vision ===
* "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" — the theological ''nunc stans'', divine timelessness.
* "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" — the monastic / Buddhist '''retreat'''.
* "[[All Reason Departs]]" — Goya's "sleep of reason breeds monsters" paired with the mystical ''via negativa'' / apophatic tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing'').
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" — physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s timeless configuration-space of the universe, read through '''Plato''''s ladder of ascent and the Neoplatonic / Christian-mystical tradition of "seeing through" appearance to the One. The album's closing '''beatific vision'''.

=== Structural Note ===
At '''18 tracks''' the album naturally divides 9 + 9, mirroring Dante's '''9 circles of hell''' (doubled for descent-and-ascent, or Inferno-and-Purgatorio). The shape moves: '''liturgical entry''' ("[[Introit]]") → '''prophetic cosmos''' → '''Trinity''' → '''eschatology''' → '''Eastern hell''' → '''occult practice''' → '''Buddhist memory-death''' → '''Incarnation''' → '''mystical pilgrimage''' → '''sacrificial myth''' → '''deep time''' → '''ecstatic unreason''' → '''arena / martyrdom''' → '''cult''' → '''retreat''' → '''beatific vision'''.

== Trivia ==

=== Catalogue number 496 ===

The ''Inferno'' vinyl, CD and digital editions carry the catalogue numbers '''WARPLP496''', '''WARPCD496''' and '''WARP496''' respectively. 496 appears to be a deliberate choice rather than the next number in Warp's sequence:

* The immediately preceding Warp albums carry much lower catalogue numbers — Nala Sinephro's ''Endlessness'' is [https://yoyaku.io/release/nala-sinephro-endlessness-lp-warplp358/ WARPLP358] (Sept 2024), [[kwes]]'s ''Kinds'' is WARPLP400 (27 Feb 2026), and [[Squarepusher]]'s April 2026 release is WARPLP417. Seven weeks after Squarepusher at 417, the catalogue jumps 79 numbers straight to 496 for ''Inferno''.
* Warp's digital (WARPDA) sequence shows the same jump: recent numbers include WARPDA408, 411, 414, 415, 417, then skip to WARPDA496 as the digital SKU for ''Inferno''.<ref>https://warp.net/discography</ref>

'''496 is mathematically and physically significant in several ways:'''

* It is the '''third perfect number''' — a positive integer equal to the sum of its proper divisors: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248 = 496. The first two perfect numbers are 6 and 28. 496 = 2<sup>4</sup>·(2<sup>5</sup> − 1), where 31 is a [[wikipedia:Mersenne prime|Mersenne prime]].
* It is the '''31st [[wikipedia:Triangular number|triangular number]]''' — the sum of all integers from 1 to 31.
* In theoretical physics, '''496 is the dimension of the gauge groups E<sub>8</sub>×E<sub>8</sub> and SO(32)''' — the two groups that allow [[wikipedia:Heterotic string|heterotic string theory]] to be anomaly-free under the [[wikipedia:Green–Schwarz mechanism|Green–Schwarz mechanism]] (1984). It is one of the most recognisable numbers in 20th-century mathematical physics.

The choice is consistent with [[Boards of Canada]]'s history of numerical encoding (e.g. ''[[Geogaddi]]'' contains 23 tracks tied to the "23 Enigma" / Discordianism, a 66:06 running time read as 666, and a Japanese release date of 13 February 2002 keyed to Revelation 13:18) and with the album's pervasive physics and cosmology references — see "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]", "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]", "[[Deep Time]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]".

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

== References ==
<references />

{{Nav-Releases}}

[[Category: Releases]]
[[Category: Releases by Boards of Canada]]
[[Category: Albums]]
[[Category: Boards of Canada Era]]
[[Category: 2026]]

Road to Inferno

2026-04-22T15:41:16Z

Phin: Add Trivia section: WARP496 is a deliberate pick — perfect number + heterotic string theory dimension, not next in sequence

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP496 (2xLP) <br> WARPCD496 (CD) <br> WARP496 (digital)
| runtime=69:51
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

<div class="toclimit-4">
__TOC__
</div>

== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is '''Dante Alighieri''''s first canticle of the ''Divine Comedy'' (c. 1308–1320), the descent through the nine circles of hell. The album's 18 tracks thus naturally read as 9 + 9 — descent and ascent, ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' — with the closing "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" supplying the ''Paradiso'''s beatific vision. Taken title by title, ''Inferno'' is the most '''explicitly religious and mystical record''' in the [[Boards of Canada]] catalogue — a far more concentrated pursuit of the cult-and-scripture thread that ran through ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

=== Christian Liturgy ===
* "[[Introit]]" — the processional opening of a Catholic Mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" — the first two persons of the Holy Trinity.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" — direct citation of the Gospel of John 1:14 (the Incarnation).

=== Eastern Religions ===
* "[[Naraka]]" — the hell realms of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh cosmology.
* "[[Memory Death]]" — dissolution of memory in the Tibetan bardo (''Bardo Thödol'').

=== Occult, Magick, and New Religious Movements ===
* "[[Acts Of Magic]]" — Crowleyan '''Magick''' as the art of change conforming to will.
* "[[The Process]]" — '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''', 1960s – 70s new-religious / cult movement (Robert de Grimston, ex-Scientology), syncretising Christ / Satan / Jehovah / Lucifer.
* "[[Into The Magic Land]]" — the mystical Otherworld / Faerie / land of the dead.

=== Prophecy, Cosmos, Creation ===
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" — the '''hydrogen line''', the SETI frequency, framed prophetically.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" — Big Bang nucleosynthesis + the biblical sea-monster of Job 41 / Psalm 74 / Isaiah 27:1.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" — astrological / precessional age (Capricorn = the ''sea-goat'').
* "[[Deep Time]]" — geological time as the Hindu/Buddhist ''kalpa'', as eternity.

=== Sacrifice and Martyrdom ===
* "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" — the Cretan Minotaur myth, the ritual sacrifice of Athenian youths, and the Chartres labyrinth as medieval pilgrimage substitute.
* "[[Arena Americanada]]" — the '''Roman arena''' as the space of martyrdom / gladiatorial spectacle, portmanteau'd through '''America''' / '''Canada''' / '''''Americana'''''.

=== Contemplation, Time Transcendence, Vision ===
* "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" — the theological ''nunc stans'', divine timelessness.
* "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" — the monastic / Buddhist '''retreat'''.
* "[[All Reason Departs]]" — Goya's "sleep of reason breeds monsters" paired with the mystical ''via negativa'' / apophatic tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing'').
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" — physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s timeless configuration-space of the universe, read through '''Plato''''s ladder of ascent and the Neoplatonic / Christian-mystical tradition of "seeing through" appearance to the One. The album's closing '''beatific vision'''.

=== Structural Note ===
At '''18 tracks''' the album naturally divides 9 + 9, mirroring Dante's '''9 circles of hell''' (doubled for descent-and-ascent, or Inferno-and-Purgatorio). The shape moves: '''liturgical entry''' ("[[Introit]]") → '''prophetic cosmos''' → '''Trinity''' → '''eschatology''' → '''Eastern hell''' → '''occult practice''' → '''Buddhist memory-death''' → '''Incarnation''' → '''mystical pilgrimage''' → '''sacrificial myth''' → '''deep time''' → '''ecstatic unreason''' → '''arena / martyrdom''' → '''cult''' → '''retreat''' → '''beatific vision'''.

== Trivia ==

=== Catalogue number 496 ===

The ''Inferno'' vinyl, CD and digital editions carry the catalogue numbers '''WARPLP496''', '''WARPCD496''' and '''WARP496''' respectively. 496 appears to be a deliberate choice rather than the next number in Warp's sequence:

* The immediately preceding Warp albums carry much lower catalogue numbers — Nala Sinephro's ''Endlessness'' is [https://yoyaku.io/release/nala-sinephro-endlessness-lp-warplp358/ WARPLP358] (Sept 2024), [[kwes]]'s ''Kinds'' is WARPLP400 (27 Feb 2026), and [[Squarepusher]]'s April 2026 release is WARPLP417. Seven weeks after Squarepusher at 417, the catalogue jumps 79 numbers straight to 496 for ''Inferno''.
* Warp's digital (WARPDA) sequence shows the same jump: recent numbers include WARPDA408, 411, 414, 415, 417, then skip to WARPDA496 as the digital SKU for ''Inferno''.<ref>https://warp.net/discography</ref>

'''496 is mathematically and physically significant in several ways:'''

* It is the '''third perfect number''' — a positive integer equal to the sum of its proper divisors: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248 = 496. The first two perfect numbers are 6 and 28. 496 = 2<sup>4</sup>·(2<sup>5</sup> − 1), where 31 is a [[wikipedia:Mersenne prime|Mersenne prime]].
* It is the '''31st [[wikipedia:Triangular number|triangular number]]''' — the sum of all integers from 1 to 31.
* In theoretical physics, '''496 is the dimension of the gauge groups E<sub>8</sub>×E<sub>8</sub> and SO(32)''' — the two groups that allow [[wikipedia:Heterotic string|heterotic string theory]] to be anomaly-free under the [[wikipedia:Green–Schwarz mechanism|Green–Schwarz mechanism]] (1984). It is one of the most recognisable numbers in 20th-century mathematical physics.

The choice is consistent with [[Boards of Canada]]'s history of numerical encoding (e.g. the 23 / 33 / 1969 motifs on ''[[Geogaddi]]'') and with the album's pervasive physics and cosmology references — see "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]", "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]", "[[Deep Time]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]".

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

== References ==
<references />

{{Nav-Releases}}

[[Category: Releases]]
[[Category: Releases by Boards of Canada]]
[[Category: Albums]]
[[Category: Boards of Canada Era]]
[[Category: 2026]]

Road to Inferno

2026-04-22T15:34:53Z

Phin: Set catalogue numbers: WARPLP496 / WARPCD496 / WARP496 (from warp.net products)

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP496 (2xLP) <br> WARPCD496 (CD) <br> WARP496 (digital)
| runtime=69:51
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

<div class="toclimit-4">
__TOC__
</div>

== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is '''Dante Alighieri''''s first canticle of the ''Divine Comedy'' (c. 1308–1320), the descent through the nine circles of hell. The album's 18 tracks thus naturally read as 9 + 9 — descent and ascent, ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' — with the closing "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" supplying the ''Paradiso'''s beatific vision. Taken title by title, ''Inferno'' is the most '''explicitly religious and mystical record''' in the [[Boards of Canada]] catalogue — a far more concentrated pursuit of the cult-and-scripture thread that ran through ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

=== Christian Liturgy ===
* "[[Introit]]" — the processional opening of a Catholic Mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" — the first two persons of the Holy Trinity.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" — direct citation of the Gospel of John 1:14 (the Incarnation).

=== Eastern Religions ===
* "[[Naraka]]" — the hell realms of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh cosmology.
* "[[Memory Death]]" — dissolution of memory in the Tibetan bardo (''Bardo Thödol'').

=== Occult, Magick, and New Religious Movements ===
* "[[Acts Of Magic]]" — Crowleyan '''Magick''' as the art of change conforming to will.
* "[[The Process]]" — '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''', 1960s – 70s new-religious / cult movement (Robert de Grimston, ex-Scientology), syncretising Christ / Satan / Jehovah / Lucifer.
* "[[Into The Magic Land]]" — the mystical Otherworld / Faerie / land of the dead.

=== Prophecy, Cosmos, Creation ===
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" — the '''hydrogen line''', the SETI frequency, framed prophetically.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" — Big Bang nucleosynthesis + the biblical sea-monster of Job 41 / Psalm 74 / Isaiah 27:1.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" — astrological / precessional age (Capricorn = the ''sea-goat'').
* "[[Deep Time]]" — geological time as the Hindu/Buddhist ''kalpa'', as eternity.

=== Sacrifice and Martyrdom ===
* "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" — the Cretan Minotaur myth, the ritual sacrifice of Athenian youths, and the Chartres labyrinth as medieval pilgrimage substitute.
* "[[Arena Americanada]]" — the '''Roman arena''' as the space of martyrdom / gladiatorial spectacle, portmanteau'd through '''America''' / '''Canada''' / '''''Americana'''''.

=== Contemplation, Time Transcendence, Vision ===
* "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" — the theological ''nunc stans'', divine timelessness.
* "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" — the monastic / Buddhist '''retreat'''.
* "[[All Reason Departs]]" — Goya's "sleep of reason breeds monsters" paired with the mystical ''via negativa'' / apophatic tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing'').
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" — physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s timeless configuration-space of the universe, read through '''Plato''''s ladder of ascent and the Neoplatonic / Christian-mystical tradition of "seeing through" appearance to the One. The album's closing '''beatific vision'''.

=== Structural Note ===
At '''18 tracks''' the album naturally divides 9 + 9, mirroring Dante's '''9 circles of hell''' (doubled for descent-and-ascent, or Inferno-and-Purgatorio). The shape moves: '''liturgical entry''' ("[[Introit]]") → '''prophetic cosmos''' → '''Trinity''' → '''eschatology''' → '''Eastern hell''' → '''occult practice''' → '''Buddhist memory-death''' → '''Incarnation''' → '''mystical pilgrimage''' → '''sacrificial myth''' → '''deep time''' → '''ecstatic unreason''' → '''arena / martyrdom''' → '''cult''' → '''retreat''' → '''beatific vision'''.

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

== References ==
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File:Inferno cover.jpg

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== Summary ==
Cover art for [[Inferno]] (2026), the fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]].

== Source ==
Warp Records product CDN (d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net), 2000×2000 master.

== Licensing ==
Cover art © 2026 [[Warp Records]] Ltd. Used on bocpages.org for documentary / identification purposes.

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Road to Inferno

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{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPXXX
| runtime=69:51
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

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== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is '''Dante Alighieri''''s first canticle of the ''Divine Comedy'' (c. 1308–1320), the descent through the nine circles of hell. The album's 18 tracks thus naturally read as 9 + 9 — descent and ascent, ''Inferno'' and ''Purgatorio'' — with the closing "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" supplying the ''Paradiso'''s beatific vision. Taken title by title, ''Inferno'' is the most '''explicitly religious and mystical record''' in the [[Boards of Canada]] catalogue — a far more concentrated pursuit of the cult-and-scripture thread that ran through ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

=== Christian Liturgy ===
* "[[Introit]]" — the processional opening of a Catholic Mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" — the first two persons of the Holy Trinity.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" — direct citation of the Gospel of John 1:14 (the Incarnation).

=== Eastern Religions ===
* "[[Naraka]]" — the hell realms of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh cosmology.
* "[[Memory Death]]" — dissolution of memory in the Tibetan bardo (''Bardo Thödol'').

=== Occult, Magick, and New Religious Movements ===
* "[[Acts Of Magic]]" — Crowleyan '''Magick''' as the art of change conforming to will.
* "[[The Process]]" — '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''', 1960s – 70s new-religious / cult movement (Robert de Grimston, ex-Scientology), syncretising Christ / Satan / Jehovah / Lucifer.
* "[[Into The Magic Land]]" — the mystical Otherworld / Faerie / land of the dead.

=== Prophecy, Cosmos, Creation ===
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" — the '''hydrogen line''', the SETI frequency, framed prophetically.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" — Big Bang nucleosynthesis + the biblical sea-monster of Job 41 / Psalm 74 / Isaiah 27:1.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" — astrological / precessional age (Capricorn = the ''sea-goat'').
* "[[Deep Time]]" — geological time as the Hindu/Buddhist ''kalpa'', as eternity.

=== Sacrifice and Martyrdom ===
* "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" — the Cretan Minotaur myth, the ritual sacrifice of Athenian youths, and the Chartres labyrinth as medieval pilgrimage substitute.
* "[[Arena Americanada]]" — the '''Roman arena''' as the space of martyrdom / gladiatorial spectacle, portmanteau'd through '''America''' / '''Canada''' / '''''Americana'''''.

=== Contemplation, Time Transcendence, Vision ===
* "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" — the theological ''nunc stans'', divine timelessness.
* "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" — the monastic / Buddhist '''retreat'''.
* "[[All Reason Departs]]" — Goya's "sleep of reason breeds monsters" paired with the mystical ''via negativa'' / apophatic tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing'').
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" — physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s timeless configuration-space of the universe, read through '''Plato''''s ladder of ascent and the Neoplatonic / Christian-mystical tradition of "seeing through" appearance to the One. The album's closing '''beatific vision'''.

=== Structural Note ===
At '''18 tracks''' the album naturally divides 9 + 9, mirroring Dante's '''9 circles of hell''' (doubled for descent-and-ascent, or Inferno-and-Purgatorio). The shape moves: '''liturgical entry''' ("[[Introit]]") → '''prophetic cosmos''' → '''Trinity''' → '''eschatology''' → '''Eastern hell''' → '''occult practice''' → '''Buddhist memory-death''' → '''Incarnation''' → '''mystical pilgrimage''' → '''sacrificial myth''' → '''deep time''' → '''ecstatic unreason''' → '''arena / martyrdom''' → '''cult''' → '''retreat''' → '''beatific vision'''.

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

== References ==
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I Saw Through Platonia

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=I Saw Through Platonia
| runtime=2:39
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* '''Platonia''' is physicist '''Julian Barbour''''s name (from ''The End of Time'', 1999) for the '''configuration space''' of all possible instantaneous arrangements of the universe — his proposed timeless substrate for a radically Machian physics in which time itself is an illusion. The title's '''"I saw through"''' is the visionary-mystical register: to "see through" Platonia is to apprehend the eternal One behind the procession of appearances.
* The word '''Platonia''' also knits Barbour's physics to '''Plato''''s cave, ladder and ''Forms'' — and so to the whole Neoplatonic and Christian-mystical tradition (Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Eckhart) in which the soul ascends through layers of appearance to the Good / the One / God.
* As the album's '''closing track''' ('''2:39'''), "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" functions as the '''beatific vision''' — the ''Paradiso'' glimpsed at the end of ''[[Inferno]]''. The album began with "[[Introit]]" (entering the Mass); it ends by seeing through.

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You Retreat In Time And Space

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=You Retreat In Time And Space
| runtime=5:25
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A '''monastic / contemplative retreat''' — the Catholic, Orthodox and Buddhist practice of withdrawing from the world for a period of intensified prayer or meditation. Time and space are ''both'' abandoned: the retreatant steps out of the flow of duration into a cell, a bardo, a hermitage.
* Pairs with "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" as the album's trio of time-transcendence titles — together they narrate a movement from ordinary time, through retreat, to beatific vision.
* Also reads plainly as BoC's own description: the band's famous withdrawal into the rural [[Pentland Hills]] studio [[Hexagon Sun]], their 13-year silence between ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' and ''[[Inferno]]''.

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The Process

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* '''The Process Church of the Final Judgment''' — an English '''new religious movement / cult''' founded in 1963 by Robert de Grimston and Mary Ann MacLean, both originally of the Church of Scientology. The Process held a syncretic theology in which Christ, Satan, Jehovah and Lucifer were complementary aspects of a single divine principle, to be reconciled at the end of the age.
* The Process has long been the subject of speculative / conspiracy writing (notably Ed Sanders's ''The Family'', 1971, which linked it to the Manson Family) and has been cited across the post-industrial / occult music tradition.
* Places the track squarely in the cult-religion axis of the album alongside the Branch-Davidian-referencing "[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]" / "[[1969]]" / "[[Amo Bishop Roden]]" lineage on ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

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Arena Americanada

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Arena Americanada
| runtime=5:22
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A portmanteau of '''arena''', '''America''', '''Canada''' and '''''Americana'''''. The '''arena''' frame is explicitly Roman / martyrological — the Colosseum as the space where the early Christian martyrs were made into spectacle for the state. Returns, via ''[[Inferno]]'', to the American-imperial / spectacle-of-suffering concerns of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' ("[[Sick Times]]", "[[Come To Dust]]").
* Simultaneously returns the band to the Canadian-imagined-America motif that defined ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' — the National Film Board of Canada soundtracks of Mike and Marcus's childhood, the "Canada" in the band's name.
* The hanging suffix "-ada" (as in ''canada'') doubles the word — ''America-Canada-da-da'' — a small formal-poetic gesture characteristic of BoC titling.

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All Reason Departs

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| runtime=6:14
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The longest track on the album. The title has at least two distinct readings, and the album supports both:
** '''Goya''''s ''El sueño de la razón produce monstruos'' ("The sleep of reason brings forth monsters", ''Los Caprichos'' No. 43, 1799) — rationality abandoned makes space for demonic imagery. Consistent with an album called ''[[Inferno]]''.
** The '''''via negativa''''' / '''apophatic''' mystical tradition (Pseudo-Dionysius, Meister Eckhart, ''The Cloud of Unknowing''): the soul's ascent to God requires the abandoning of discursive reason, because God is beyond categories. Reason ''departs'' in the direction of gnosis — the ecstatic, unitive, wordless encounter.
* The runtime — '''6:14''' — is a common Christian shorthand for Matthew 6:14 ("For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you").

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Deep Time

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| runtime=3:18
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* '''Deep time''' — the geological concept (coined in the modern sense by John McPhee, after '''James Hutton''''s 18th-century insight) for the vast scales on which the Earth changes. Contemplated religiously, deep time is the '''kalpa''' of Hindu and Buddhist cosmology — an aeon so long it functions as a figure for eternity.
* Companion to "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" (cosmological time) and "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" (astrological time) on the album's time-scale triad.
* Echoes the '''contemplative tradition''' of looking at stones and strata as a spiritual practice (Annie Dillard, Robert Macfarlane, the geological sublime).

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Blood In The Labyrinth

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{{Infobox Song|
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| runtime=4:55
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The '''Labyrinth''' of Crete, housing the '''Minotaur''' — half-bull, half-man, child of King Minos's wife Pasiphaë and the Cretan Bull. Seven Athenian youths and seven maidens were sent in as ritual tribute every nine years to be devoured; Theseus ends the sacrificial cycle.
* The myth reads as an '''archaic religion of sacrifice''', the kind that Christianity was understood (by its own theologians) to supersede. Adjacent to the bull-horned imagery and the "god with horns" sample on ''[[Geogaddi]]'''s "[[You Could Feel the Sky]]".
* The Labyrinth is also a medieval Christian symbol — the cathedral-floor labyrinth of Chartres was walked as a substitute for the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Sacrificial blood in the labyrinth layers pagan sacrifice on Christian pilgrimage.

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Into The Magic Land

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Into The Magic Land
| runtime=4:35
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A '''mystical pilgrimage''' title in the Celtic / folkloric vein: crossing into Faerie, into the Otherworld, into a land that is physically adjacent to this one but ontologically separate. Continues a thread that runs through "[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]" and the [[Hexagon Sun]] / pastoral / [[Music70]] aesthetic.
* "'''Magic'''" here ties to "[[Acts Of Magic]]": the album's twin magical titles, one as practice, one as destination.
* May also read as the land of the dead (Annwn in Welsh, Tír na nÓg in Irish, Hades in Greek, Sheol in Hebrew) — the '''other country''' into which the album descends.

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The Word Becomes Flesh

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Word Becomes Flesh
| runtime=5:20
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A direct quotation of the Gospel of John '''1:14''': "''And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.''" This is the doctrine of the '''Incarnation''' — the logos assuming material form in Jesus Christ — one of the central mysteries of Christian theology.
* Forms a Christian-liturgical spine with "[[Introit]]" (Catholic Mass) and "[[Father And Son]]" (Trinity).
* The '''Word''' (Greek ''logos'') also resonates with the magical / Kabbalistic tradition of the creative utterance — the word that creates the world — linking the track to "[[Acts Of Magic]]" and to the cosmological opening of "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]".

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Memory Death

2026-04-22T15:12:53Z

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| name=Memory Death
| runtime=2:37
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* In Tibetan Buddhism, the moment of death is described (in the ''Bardo Thödol'', the "Tibetan Book of the Dead") as a dissolution of the skandhas — including memory. "'''Memory death'''" as a title compresses this teaching: the liquidation of the store of past impressions as a precondition for rebirth.
* Mike Sandison has described ''[[Geogaddi]]'' as "''exorcising demons''" and as concerning "''brainwashing and memory loss''". ''[[Inferno]]'' returns explicitly to that strand.
* Pairs with "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" (retreat as contemplative practice) and "[[Acts Of Magic]]" (ritual) on the album's contemplative / inner-practice axis.

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Acts Of Magic

2026-04-22T15:12:52Z

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| name=Acts Of Magic
| runtime=1:18
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* "'''Acts of magic'''" evokes Aleister Crowley's '''Magick''' (the "k" is his spelling to distinguish ceremonial from stage magic): "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." Places the album on the Western esoteric / ceremonial-magic axis alongside "[[The Process]]" (the Process Church) and "[[Into The Magic Land]]".
* The brevity (1:18) suggests an '''interlude / invocation''' — a short ritual gesture between the Buddhist hell of "[[Naraka]]" and the Buddhist-bardo reading of "[[Memory Death]]".
* In some magical traditions, "acts" is also a technical term for the stages of a ritual working (Thelemic, Golden Dawn).

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Naraka

2026-04-22T15:12:51Z

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| name=Naraka
| runtime=5:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* '''Naraka''' is the term for the hell-realms in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh cosmology. In Buddhist cosmology there are typically '''eight hot hells''' and '''eight cold hells'''; Dante's ''Inferno'' has '''nine circles'''. ''[[Inferno]]'' pointedly reaches outside the Christian frame.
* In the bardo tradition (''Bardo Thödol'' / Tibetan Book of the Dead), Naraka is one of the six realms of rebirth — entered by those whose karma requires purgation. Pairs with "[[Memory Death]]" and "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" on the Buddhist axis of the album.
* The track is placed at position 7 of 18 — roughly a third of the way in, as Dante's pilgrim is in the seventh circle for violence.

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Somewhere Right Now In The Future

2026-04-22T15:12:50Z

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| name=Somewhere Right Now In The Future
| runtime=2:26
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A deliberately paradoxical phrase: "right now" and "in the future" collapsed into a single moment. In Christian, Hindu and Buddhist theology, God is often characterised as seeing all times simultaneously (the doctrine of divine eternity; in scholastic Latin, the ''nunc stans'' — the "standing now").
* Pairs with "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" as the album's trio of time-transcendence titles — all three dismantling the listener's ordinary sense of duration.
* Adjacent to the eschatological tradition: the Christian "Kingdom already, and not yet" — the future is already happening somewhere.

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Father And Son

2026-04-22T15:12:49Z

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| name=Father And Son
| runtime=3:24
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The '''Father and Son''' of the Christian '''Holy Trinity''' — God the Father and Jesus the Son — the first two persons of the Trinity, with the Holy Spirit. Positions the track at the heart of the album's liturgical spine, alongside "[[Introit]]" (Catholic Mass), "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" (John 1:14, the doctrine of the Incarnation), "[[Naraka]]" (Hindu/Buddhist hell realms), "[[Acts Of Magic]]", "[[The Process]]", and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]".
* Continues [[Boards of Canada]]'s long engagement with religious / cult iconography, most explicitly on ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]'' (Branch Davidian references, six churches premiering ''[[Geogaddi]]'', the 66:06 runtime).

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Age Of Capricorn

2026-04-22T15:12:48Z

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| name=Age Of Capricorn
| runtime=3:52
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* In precessional astrology, the '''Age of Capricorn''' is a putative astrological age demarcated by the slow westward drift of the vernal equinox through the zodiac. Astrology here is treated as mystical cosmology, not science.
* Capricorn is the '''sea-goat''' — the hybrid creature of the water and the mountain — resonating with the sea-monster Leviathan of track 3 and the labyrinth-bull Minotaur of track 12 ("[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]").
* Plays explicitly against "[[Aquarius (song)|Aquarius]]" on ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' and Stockhausen's notion of ages (cited in the "[[Aquarius (song)|Aquarius]]" lyrics). Capricorn, in some occult systems, is the sign of the material and the demonic; sits naturally on an album called ''[[Inferno]]''.

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Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan

2026-04-22T15:12:47Z

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| name=Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan
| runtime=4:44
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* '''Hydrogen, helium and lithium''' are the three elements produced in appreciable quantities by '''Big Bang nucleosynthesis''' in the first minutes of the universe. To append '''Leviathan''' — the biblical sea-monster of Job 41, Psalm 74 and Isaiah 27:1, a creature of primordial chaos that is subdued by God at the creation and again at the end of days — is to collapse the beginning of physical cosmology into mythic theology.
* In Kabbalah and Christian exegesis, Leviathan is the chaos of the deep before the Spirit moves on the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). The title aligns creation's first three chemical elements with the dragon that inhabits the void.
* The runtime — '''4:44''' — is a common numerological "angel number" in contemporary mysticism, read as divine reassurance or as guarded transition. For BoC's numerological tradition see ''[[Geogaddi]]'''s '''66:06''' and "[[1969]]".

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Prophecy At 1420 MHz

2026-04-22T15:12:45Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Prophecy At 1420 MHz
| runtime=5:04
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* '''1420 MHz''' (21 cm) is the '''hydrogen line''' — the emission frequency of neutral atomic hydrogen, and the most-listened-on frequency in the history of SETI. It is widely known as the '''"waterhole"''' frequency; in popular SETI writing it has sometimes been called "the voice of God" — the signal any intelligence in the galaxy would be expected to recognise.
* Pairing "'''prophecy'''" with the hydrogen line reads the cosmos as a source of religious revelation: a transmission from elsewhere, listened to with the ear of a prophet rather than an engineer. Continues the band's long interest in number stations, shortwave, and hidden messages (see "[[Gyroscope]]").
* Thematically paired with "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" (the elements produced by the Big Bang) — together they stage the physical cosmos as a theological space.

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Introit

2026-04-22T15:12:44Z

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| name=Introit
| runtime=0:36
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* '''Introit''' is the opening chant of a Catholic Mass — the prayer sung or recited as the priest processes into the sanctuary. As ''[[Inferno]]'''s first track (0:36), it frames the whole album as a liturgical act — the listener enters the space as if entering a Mass, or, following the album's title, the gate of Dante's ''Inferno''.
* The first word of the Introit proper in the traditional Latin Mass is ''Introibo'' — "I will go in." ''[[Inferno]]'' likewise opens with an act of entry.
* Sits with "[[Father And Son]]" and "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" as the album's explicitly Christian-liturgical triad.

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Road to Inferno

2026-04-22T15:07:27Z

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{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPXXX
| runtime=69:51
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

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== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is the first explicit literary reference in the band's catalogue since the Branch-Davidian and mathematical allusions of ''[[Geogaddi]]''. Track titles across the record return to territory familiar from the [[Boards of Canada]] vocabulary:

* '''Astronomy / cosmology''' — "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" (the hydrogen line, used in SETI), "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]", "[[Age Of Capricorn]]", "[[Deep Time]]"
* '''Religion / mysticism''' — "[[Introit]]" (liturgical opening of a Catholic Mass), "[[Father And Son]]" (first two persons of the Christian Trinity), "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" (Gospel of John 1:14), "[[Naraka]]" (Hindu/Buddhist hell realms), "[[Acts Of Magic]]", "[[The Process]]", "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]"
* '''Memory / time''' — "[[Memory Death]]", "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]", "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]"
* '''Ritual / place''' — "[[Into The Magic Land]]", "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]", "[[Arena Americanada]]", "[[The Process]]"

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

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Father And Son

2026-04-22T15:07:26Z

Phin: Correct reading: Father and Son as the first two persons of the Christian Trinity (continuing the religious thread of Inferno)

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Father And Son
| runtime=3:24
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The '''Father and Son''' of the Christian Holy Trinity — God the Father and Jesus the Son — the first two persons of the Trinity, with the Holy Spirit. Fits the broad religious / liturgical frame of ''[[Inferno]]'', alongside "[[Introit]]" (Catholic Mass), "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" (Gospel of John 1:14), "[[Naraka]]" (Hindu/Buddhist hell realms), "[[Acts Of Magic]]", "[[The Process]]", and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]".
* Continues [[Boards of Canada]]'s long-running engagement with religious and cult iconography, most explicitly explored on ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]'' and ''[[Geogaddi]]'' (the [[David Koresh|Branch Davidians]], the six churches premiering ''[[Geogaddi]]'', the 66:06 runtime).

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I Saw Through Platonia

2026-04-22T15:04:47Z

Phin: Create stub page for "I Saw Through Platonia" — track 18/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

{{Infobox Song|
| name=I Saw Through Platonia
| runtime=2:39
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* ''Platonia'' is physicist Julian Barbour's name for the configuration space of all possible instantaneous arrangements of the universe — his proposed substrate for a timeless physics (''The End of Time'', 1999). A closing title that folds physics, mysticism, and the album's pervasive concern with time into a single image.

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You Retreat In Time And Space

2026-04-22T15:04:46Z

Phin: Create stub page for "You Retreat In Time And Space" — track 17/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

{{Infobox Song|
| name=You Retreat In Time And Space
| runtime=5:25
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Pairs with "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" as the album's second explicit time-travel title. "Retreat" in the monastic sense is a live possibility — retreat into memory, into solitude, into the past.

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The Process

2026-04-22T15:04:45Z

Phin: Create stub page for "The Process" — track 16/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The Process Church of the Final Judgment — a 1960s–70s occult / post-Scientology group — is the most-cited referent for a title like this, placing the track on the cult / religion thread of ''[[Inferno]]'' (alongside "[[Naraka]]", "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]", "[[Acts Of Magic]]"). Consistent with the Branch-Davidian and cult readings of ''[[Geogaddi]]''.

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Arena Americanada

2026-04-22T15:04:43Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Arena Americanada" — track 15/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| name=Arena Americanada
| runtime=5:22
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A portmanteau of "America" / "Canada" / ''Americana''. Returns the band to the Canadian-imagined-America motif that defined ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'', via the National Film Board of Canada soundtracks of their childhood.

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All Reason Departs

2026-04-22T15:04:42Z

Phin: Create stub page for "All Reason Departs" — track 14/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| name=All Reason Departs
| runtime=6:14
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The longest track on the album. The title echoes Goya's aphorism ''El sueño de la razón produce monstruos'' (The sleep of reason breeds monsters) — consistent with an album called ''[[Inferno]]''.

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Deep Time

2026-04-22T15:04:41Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Deep Time" — track 13/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| name=Deep Time
| runtime=3:18
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* ''Deep time'' is the geological term (coined by John McPhee after James Hutton's 18th-century insight) for the vast scales on which the Earth changes. A natural companion to "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]".

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Blood In The Labyrinth

2026-04-22T15:04:40Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Blood In The Labyrinth" — track 12/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Blood In The Labyrinth
| runtime=4:55
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The labyrinth of Crete (Theseus and the Minotaur) reframed as the maze in which blood is spilled. Continues the mythological strand running through "[[Naraka]]" and "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]".

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Into The Magic Land

2026-04-22T15:04:38Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Into The Magic Land" — track 11/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| name=Into The Magic Land
| runtime=4:35
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A pastoral title in the [[Music70]] / Hexagon-Sun vein: the "magic land" as a destination, continuing a thread that runs back through "[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]".

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The Word Becomes Flesh

2026-04-22T15:04:37Z

Phin: Create stub page for "The Word Becomes Flesh" — track 10/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| name=The Word Becomes Flesh
| runtime=5:20
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Directly quoting the Gospel of John 1:14. Pairs with "[[Introit]]" as the album's Christian-liturgical spine; with "[[Naraka]]" as a syncretic counterweight.

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Memory Death

2026-04-22T15:04:36Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Memory Death" — track 9/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Memory Death
| runtime=2:37
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Memory-as-erosion is a recurrent [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] concern — the "brainwashing and memory loss" theme Mike identified on ''[[Geogaddi]]'' is reworked here as an explicit title.

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Acts Of Magic

2026-04-22T15:04:35Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Acts Of Magic" — track 8/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| runtime=1:18
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* A short interlude, the album's second shortest track. See also "[[Introit]]" and "[[Memory Death]]" for the album's interstitial pieces.

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Naraka

2026-04-22T15:04:33Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Naraka" — track 7/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| name=Naraka
| runtime=5:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* ''Naraka'' is the term for the hell-realms in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh cosmology. Its inclusion makes ''[[Inferno]]'' a cross-tradition hell map (Dante / Buddhist / astronomical) rather than a strictly Christian one.

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Somewhere Right Now In The Future

2026-04-22T15:04:32Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Somewhere Right Now In The Future" — track 6/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| runtime=2:26
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== Comments ==
* A characteristic [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] temporal knot — the "right now" of a future that is simultaneously somewhere already happening. Thematically adjacent to "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" on the same album.

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Father And Son

2026-04-22T15:04:31Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Father And Son" — track 5/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| runtime=3:24
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* The "children" motif that runs through [[Boards of Canada]]'s catalogue, flipped to a paternal frame. Echoes [[Mike Sandison|Mike]]'s comments in interviews about becoming a father in 2004 and how that shaped their working methods.

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Age Of Capricorn

2026-04-22T15:04:30Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Age Of Capricorn" — track 4/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| name=Age Of Capricorn
| runtime=3:52
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

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== Comments ==
* Capricorn is a tropical-zodiac constellation; an "age of Capricorn" would, in precession-of-the-equinoxes astrology, sit many millennia distant. Plays against "[[Aquarius (song)|Aquarius]]" on ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]''.

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Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan

2026-04-22T15:04:28Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan" — track 3/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| runtime=4:44
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== Comments ==
* Hydrogen, helium and lithium are the three elements produced in appreciable amounts by Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Appending ''Leviathan'' (biblical sea-monster / Hobbesian figure of the state) reads as a cosmological → mythological pivot, collapsing the first minutes of the universe into a single monstrous image.

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Prophecy At 1420 MHz

2026-04-22T15:04:27Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Prophecy At 1420 MHz" — track 2/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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| runtime=5:04
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== Comments ==
* 1420 MHz (21 cm) is the '''hydrogen line''' — the emission frequency of neutral atomic hydrogen, and the frequency most SETI searches have listened on for extraterrestrial signals since the 1960s. It is sometimes called the ''waterhole'' frequency.
* Pairing 'prophecy' with the hydrogen line echoes a long SETI-era trope: an alien transmission as revelation. Thematically sits alongside "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" on the same album.

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Introit

2026-04-22T15:04:26Z

Phin: Create stub page for "Introit" — track 1/18 on Inferno (29 May 2026)

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== Comments ==
* Introit is the opening chant of a Catholic Mass — a liturgical procession into the sanctuary. As an album opener it positions ''[[Inferno]]'' as a ritual or journey, in keeping with the Dante title's cosmology of descent.

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Road to Inferno

2026-04-22T14:58:50Z

Phin: Updated for confirmed release of Inferno (LP5) on 29 May 2026: added infobox + full tracklist + restructured leadup as historical section

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP <br> CD <br> Digital
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPXXX
| runtime=69:51
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on '''29 May 2026''' via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—a gap of nearly thirteen years, the band's longest to date.

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== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

Total running time – '''69:51'''

== Announcement ==

The album was officially announced in the lead-up to its '''29 May 2026''' release date, following over a decade of speculation and a substantial uptick in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media and affiliated web properties through 2025 and into early 2026.

For the prior period of anticipation and speculation, see the article formerly titled ''[[LP5]]''.

=== Official Statements ===

* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." — in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know '''when''' the new [[BoC]] album is coming" — note the use of ''when'' rather than ''if'', implying the album was confirmed to be in progress.<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>

* [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s official [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

== Leadup ==

=== Instagram Likes (2025) ===

''Main article: [[LP5]]''

Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] liked numerous comments across their official [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ Instagram], the vast majority on the topic of new music. See [[:Category:Instagram]] for the full archive and [[LP5#Table|the LP5 table]] for a summary.

=== Cosecha Transmisiones ===

''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''1 May 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]]—originally used in the promotion of ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''—had been updated to read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the following months the site displayed a rotating sequence of error messages and cryptic fragments before being redirected to the original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 ''Tomorrow's Harvest'' Transmission] video on 29 August 2025. With the announcement of ''Inferno'', the relationship between the 2025 reactivation of the site and the eventual album release is an open question for fans.

=== New Merchandise ===

On '''6 June 2025''', new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise was announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref> Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on 11 June. The release was widely read as a prelude to an album announcement.

=== Twoism 30 ===

On '''15 August 2025''', [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' 30th-anniversary celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> The band's first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''—originally limited to 100 copies in 1995—was made available through [[Bleep.com]].

On the same post, [[Boards of Canada]] liked a large batch of comments speculating about a forthcoming album.

== Title and Themes ==

The title ''Inferno'' is the first explicit literary reference in the band's catalogue since the Branch-Davidian and mathematical allusions of ''[[Geogaddi]]''. Track titles across the record return to territory familiar from the [[Boards of Canada]] vocabulary:

* '''Astronomy / cosmology''' — "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" (the hydrogen line, used in SETI), "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]", "[[Age Of Capricorn]]", "[[Deep Time]]"
* '''Religion / mysticism''' — "[[Introit]]" (a liturgical opening), "[[Naraka]]" (Buddhist/Hindu hell), "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]", "[[Acts Of Magic]]", "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]"
* '''Father/son / childhood''' — "[[Father And Son]]", a motif echoing ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]''
* '''Memory / time''' — "[[Memory Death]]", "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]", "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]"
* '''Ritual / place''' — "[[Into The Magic Land]]", "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]", "[[Arena Americanada]]", "[[The Process]]"

== Release Notes ==

''(To be populated from Warp's promotional copy once released.)''

== Quotes ==

''(To be populated as interviews appear around the release.)''

== See Also ==

* [[LP5]] – archived speculation/leadup page
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Tomorrow's Harvest]] – previous studio album (2013)
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==

* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

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Road to Inferno

2026-04-22T14:37:46Z

Phin:

[[Inferno]] is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], which will serve as the follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''. It is scheduled to release on May 29, 2026.

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== Leadup ==

=== Official Statements ===
* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." said in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

[[File:MDG-confirms-LP5.jpeg|center|500px]]

* [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada BoC's official Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

=== Noteworthy Official Activity ===
==== Instagram Likes ====
* [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ BoC's official Instagram] - Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] have liked numerous comments, all of which revolved around '''the topic of new music'''. View all the screenshots on [[:Category:Instagram|one page]] or check the overview in the [[LP5#Table|table]].

===== Screenshots =====
** 8th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 14 comments on an 11 week old post of a fan video of "[[Gyroscope]]".<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 10th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 1 comment on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 13th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 1 comment on the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" post.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/C8hTJcYsXRf/</ref>

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** 28th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 5 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 31st March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 3 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post,<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref> and 1 comment on the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" post.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/C8hTJcYsXRf/</ref>

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** 9th April 2025: [[BoC]] likes 9 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 20th April 2025: [[BoC]] likes 2 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 17th May 2025: [[BoC]] likes 2 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1kos9lh/they_like_one_of_my_comments/</ref>

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===== Table =====
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed sortable wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
! style="width: 100px; text-align: center;" | liked
! style="text-align: center;" | commenter
! style="text-align: center;" | comment
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || hektagon || You guys don't fully know how much you are changing people's lives with your music.... You are an inspiration and we are truly honoured for having heard your beautiful music... thank you
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || anthonybagala || What! A post from BOC! A new album omen perhaps ?
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || mr.shutter__ || Need new music
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || verlindendavid6 || Glad you're still there...WE ARE patiently waiting for a New album...but i think you already Know it
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || axelbaccari || Good things come to those who wait?
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || landscape.fm || "the long silence between boc albums are just very quiet time stretched albums" -mark twain
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || ivanprofeno || come back please 😭
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || jlhaise_ || plz come back
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || jslydemusic || NEW ALBUM BUTTON - >
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || pabloburial98 || Please, Marcus and Michael, drop a new album 🥺
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || harocr || I LOVE YOU
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || gaijinguru || Please... please drop a new album. It's been 11 years
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || joet1138 || New Album please guys.
|-
| Sat Mar 08 || 280z.phenix || BOC album sooon? 🙏
|-
| Mon Mar 10 || like_the_void || New album would be the best news imaginable.
|-
| Thu Mar 13 || liladhar_das || It's hard to express gratitude. Because true connection and love is expressed indirectly. I don't need your new album because what you've done is enough, but if it comes out I'll be first in line to listen to it.
|-
| Fri Mar 28 || torus.1.2 || You guys have given me a lot of fresh perspective from your art. And I'd be all the more grateful if I was alive to see another great album production from you. Regardless, I want to reiterate my thanks for your contributions to culture.
|-
| Fri Mar 28 || nza.trestrestres || please drop something new. 🥺
|-
| Fri Mar 28 || verlindendavid6 || The end of the waiting has never been so near
|-
| Fri Mar 28 || _ow_______w || Hello, please can you release a new album or something new 🙏 ❤️
|-
| Fri Mar 28 || nicky.i3 || I will finally experience the true meaning of happiness if I were to experience a new album from them ..one day.. ❤️
|-
| Mon Mar 31 || geatgizmo74 || Please BoC we need new music! 🙏
|-
| Mon Mar 31 || ahkilltree / synthesizergirlfriend || Your music and the commentary you make with it are deeply forward thinking. My generation is Tomorrow's Harvest. We are the crop of tyrants, but want to offer those born after us a truly better life. We have no choice but to be better. It'd be nice to hear what you're thinking again. There are lots of younger fans who will take solace in whatever material you put out. We are ready!
|-
| Mon Mar 31 || si_ni_sa || I really really would love to see the day of new album release but if you never release anything again, I will be content with all the things that you release so far. Thank you for that.
|-
| Mon Mar 31 || dazed_rick || Forever love your guys music! If a new album is coming im sure it will be as wonderful as we all imagine, keep up the amazing work guys! Orange! 🧡 🍊
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || stavorius || Someday something new will come, I can feel it.
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || kyototrain || The children yearn for a new album
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || hexagonsundown || You'll always be my most important and life intertwined artists of any sort, your music has been a major part of my life most of my adult life
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || verlindendavid6 || Come on guys....you know we are ready for New stuff...
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || _boards_of_canada_ || Hope it's true; that there's new music coming. Can't wait for it, been listening since 2017; It's inspired me to persue many goals in life and helped me in rough times. Much love.
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || yulin_liminal_research_unit || I've heard that things are brewing regarding a new album? I hope the answer is "Yeeaaahh that's right"
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || g.cobas || Thank you for everything, your music change the perspective of the world, I hope that something new it's coming
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || bizcastl || Forever keeping my hopes up of seeing new material. Your music is always deeply meaningful and inspiring, and it might be time for a new outlook after your last became all too true...
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || marcussimms05 || Been fan since 2018 (when I was 13). Very excited to hear whatever new music you've got in store!
|-
| Sun Apr 20 || pn_g74 || Can we all finally stop dreaming about a new album, and that it's going to finally be a reality 🙌
|-
| Sun Apr 20 || nico.figari || As @lowtheband once said, I could live in hope
|-
| Sat May 17 || hamza_sdn_ || We need some news or new stuff Boards 🙏
|-
| Sat May 17 || colin_constance_photography || Patiently waiting
|}

==== Cosecha Transmisiones ====
''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''May 1st 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/| r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]], originally used in the promotion of [[Tomorrow's Harvest]], had been updated to simply read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the next few months various changes were made to the site, with it displaying a variety of error messages at different times amongst other things, before it was simply redirected to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission] video on August 29th 2025. The reason for or significance of the activity remains unclear, although it appears not to be directly related to a new [[Boards of Canada]] release.

==== New Merchandise ====
On June 6th 2025, new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise is announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]]. Produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks, with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label. Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on June 11th.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref>

It has been widely speculated that this release of new merchandise may be a prelude to an announcement of a new album.

==== Twoism 30 ====
On August 15th 2025, [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> Their first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'', originally a limited run of only 100 vinyl copies, is available today at [[Bleep.com]].

[[Boards of Canada]] took the opportunity to like a lot of [https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/ comments on their Instagram post] revolving around the topic of new music.

=== Other Noteworthy Statements & Activity ===
* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know when the new [[BoC]] album is coming"<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>. Note the use of ''''when'''' rather than ''''if'''' implying that the album is confirmed to be in progress.

== Speculation ==
* There have been many theories concerning potential release dates of [[LP5]], or announcements relating to it. So far most of these dates have passed with no discernible activity from [[Boards of Canada]].
* Many speculated a 2025 release date to coincide with the 30th anniversary of [[Boards of Canada]]'s first official release, ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''. Notably, there was a substantial increase in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media accounts in late 2024 and the first half of 2025. Despite this, no release or major announcements materialised, and a release date for [[LP5]] has yet to be confirmed.

== See Also ==
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]
* [[MDG]]
* [[Discography]]

== External Links ==
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631| General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14811| News & Findings]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7374| General New Release Speculation Topic] (locked Dec 30th 2024)
* [https://www.instagram.com/p/DHY3RUfokrZ/?img_index=1 LP5 post on bocpages' Instagram]

== References==
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[[LP5]] (actual title not yet known) is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], which will serve as the follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''. Although there is currently no official title or release date, [[LP5]] was confirmed to be in production in June 2022 by [[Boards of Canada]]'s online representative, [[MDG]], in a private message to [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] user babylulu. Subsequent sporadic but consistent activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s official social media, including a reference to "future news and announcements"<ref> https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada/post/CvHoTJlsRWR </ref>, suggests that the intent to release another album is still there.

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== Confirmation ==

=== Official Statements ===
* [[Marcus Eoin]], June 2013: "It feels like neither of those things from our perspective because we've always been working! We'd be making music anyway even if nobody was listening, and '''we've no intention of stopping''', so this is just a continuation." said in response to the question "Is this record a new beginning or maybe the end? How does it feel for you?", from the interview [[The Charms of the Sphinx]].

* [[MDG]], June 2022: "Nothing specific I'm allowed to share yet unfortunately, just that '''a new album is on its way'''."

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* [https://www.threads.net/@boardsofcanada BoC's official Threads], July 2023: "Follow here for '''future news''' & '''announcements''' etc."

=== Noteworthy Official Activity ===
==== Instagram Likes ====
* [https://www.instagram.com/boardsofcanada/ BoC's official Instagram] - Starting in March 2025, [[BoC]] have liked numerous comments, all of which revolved around '''the topic of new music'''. View all the screenshots on [[:Category:Instagram|one page]] or check the overview in the [[LP5#Table|table]].

===== Screenshots =====
** 8th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 14 comments on an 11 week old post of a fan video of "[[Gyroscope]]".<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 10th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 1 comment on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 13th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 1 comment on the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" post.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/C8hTJcYsXRf/</ref>

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** 28th March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 5 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 31st March 2025: [[BoC]] likes 3 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post,<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref> and 1 comment on the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" post.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/C8hTJcYsXRf/</ref>

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** 9th April 2025: [[BoC]] likes 9 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 20th April 2025: [[BoC]] likes 2 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref>

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** 17th May 2025: [[BoC]] likes 2 comments on the "[[Gyroscope]]" post.<ref name="boc gyroscope post">https://www.instagram.com/p/DDrvdn7Mfez/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1kos9lh/they_like_one_of_my_comments/</ref>

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===== Table =====
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! style="width: 100px; text-align: center;" | liked
! style="text-align: center;" | commenter
! style="text-align: center;" | comment
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| Sat Mar 08 || hektagon || You guys don't fully know how much you are changing people's lives with your music.... You are an inspiration and we are truly honoured for having heard your beautiful music... thank you
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| Sat Mar 08 || anthonybagala || What! A post from BOC! A new album omen perhaps ?
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| Sat Mar 08 || mr.shutter__ || Need new music
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| Sat Mar 08 || verlindendavid6 || Glad you're still there...WE ARE patiently waiting for a New album...but i think you already Know it
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| Sat Mar 08 || axelbaccari || Good things come to those who wait?
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| Sat Mar 08 || landscape.fm || "the long silence between boc albums are just very quiet time stretched albums" -mark twain
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| Sat Mar 08 || ivanprofeno || come back please 😭
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| Sat Mar 08 || jlhaise_ || plz come back
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| Sat Mar 08 || jslydemusic || NEW ALBUM BUTTON - >
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| Sat Mar 08 || pabloburial98 || Please, Marcus and Michael, drop a new album 🥺
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| Sat Mar 08 || harocr || I LOVE YOU
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| Sat Mar 08 || gaijinguru || Please... please drop a new album. It's been 11 years
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| Sat Mar 08 || joet1138 || New Album please guys.
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| Sat Mar 08 || 280z.phenix || BOC album sooon? 🙏
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| Mon Mar 10 || like_the_void || New album would be the best news imaginable.
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| Thu Mar 13 || liladhar_das || It's hard to express gratitude. Because true connection and love is expressed indirectly. I don't need your new album because what you've done is enough, but if it comes out I'll be first in line to listen to it.
|-
| Fri Mar 28 || torus.1.2 || You guys have given me a lot of fresh perspective from your art. And I'd be all the more grateful if I was alive to see another great album production from you. Regardless, I want to reiterate my thanks for your contributions to culture.
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| Fri Mar 28 || nza.trestrestres || please drop something new. 🥺
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| Fri Mar 28 || verlindendavid6 || The end of the waiting has never been so near
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| Fri Mar 28 || _ow_______w || Hello, please can you release a new album or something new 🙏 ❤️
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| Fri Mar 28 || nicky.i3 || I will finally experience the true meaning of happiness if I were to experience a new album from them ..one day.. ❤️
|-
| Mon Mar 31 || geatgizmo74 || Please BoC we need new music! 🙏
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| Mon Mar 31 || ahkilltree / synthesizergirlfriend || Your music and the commentary you make with it are deeply forward thinking. My generation is Tomorrow's Harvest. We are the crop of tyrants, but want to offer those born after us a truly better life. We have no choice but to be better. It'd be nice to hear what you're thinking again. There are lots of younger fans who will take solace in whatever material you put out. We are ready!
|-
| Mon Mar 31 || si_ni_sa || I really really would love to see the day of new album release but if you never release anything again, I will be content with all the things that you release so far. Thank you for that.
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| Mon Mar 31 || dazed_rick || Forever love your guys music! If a new album is coming im sure it will be as wonderful as we all imagine, keep up the amazing work guys! Orange! 🧡 🍊
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || stavorius || Someday something new will come, I can feel it.
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| Wed Apr 09 || kyototrain || The children yearn for a new album
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| Wed Apr 09 || hexagonsundown || You'll always be my most important and life intertwined artists of any sort, your music has been a major part of my life most of my adult life
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| Wed Apr 09 || verlindendavid6 || Come on guys....you know we are ready for New stuff...
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| Wed Apr 09 || _boards_of_canada_ || Hope it's true; that there's new music coming. Can't wait for it, been listening since 2017; It's inspired me to persue many goals in life and helped me in rough times. Much love.
|-
| Wed Apr 09 || yulin_liminal_research_unit || I've heard that things are brewing regarding a new album? I hope the answer is "Yeeaaahh that's right"
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| Wed Apr 09 || g.cobas || Thank you for everything, your music change the perspective of the world, I hope that something new it's coming
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| Wed Apr 09 || bizcastl || Forever keeping my hopes up of seeing new material. Your music is always deeply meaningful and inspiring, and it might be time for a new outlook after your last became all too true...
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| Wed Apr 09 || marcussimms05 || Been fan since 2018 (when I was 13). Very excited to hear whatever new music you've got in store!
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| Sun Apr 20 || pn_g74 || Can we all finally stop dreaming about a new album, and that it's going to finally be a reality 🙌
|-
| Sun Apr 20 || nico.figari || As @lowtheband once said, I could live in hope
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| Sat May 17 || hamza_sdn_ || We need some news or new stuff Boards 🙏
|-
| Sat May 17 || colin_constance_photography || Patiently waiting
|}

==== Cosecha Transmisiones ====
''Main article: [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com]]''

On '''May 1st 2025''', users on [[Twoism (messageboard)|Twoism]] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/| r/boardsofcanada] noticed that the website [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|cosecha-transmisiones.com]], originally used in the promotion of [[Tomorrow's Harvest]], had been updated to simply read:

<code>nobody home... /// -. --- -... --- -.. -.-- / .... --- -- . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-</code>

Over the next few months various changes were made to the site, with it displaying a variety of error messages at different times amongst other things, before it was simply redirected to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lyYEUPat8 Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission] video on August 29th 2025. The reason for or significance of the activity remains unclear, although it appears not to be directly related to a new [[Boards of Canada]] release.

==== New Merchandise ====
On June 6th 2025, new [[Boards of Canada]] merchandise is announced and exclusively available at [[Bleep.com|Bleep]]. Produced on unisex Stanley and Stella blanks, with a [[Boards of Canada]] neck label. Shipping from Bleep's UK and USA warehouses began on June 11th.<ref>https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-2025-merchandise</ref><ref>https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/bleep.com/post/3lqxaqw2mj22s</ref><ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkNBcdIEfz/?img_index=1</ref>

It has been widely speculated that this release of new merchandise may be a prelude to an announcement of a new album.

==== Twoism 30 ====
On August 15th 2025, [[Boards of Canada]] uploaded a ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' celebration video to their social media accounts.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/</ref><ref>https://www.threads.com/@boardsofcanada/post/DNYN0UYMSVj</ref><ref>https://bsky.app/profile/boardsofcanada.bsky.social/post/3lwhdn4y3vk2d</ref><ref>https://x.com/boardsofcanada/status/1956358894902550775</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/boardsofcanada/videos/1494936234977208</ref> Their first publicly-available vinyl mini album ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'', originally a limited run of only 100 vinyl copies, is available today at [[Bleep.com]].

[[Boards of Canada]] took the opportunity to like a lot of [https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYMbzWMJIZ/ comments on their Instagram post] revolving around the topic of new music.

=== Other Noteworthy Statements & Activity ===
* [[Bleep.com|Bleep]], April 2023: "we don't know when the new [[BoC]] album is coming"<ref>https://bleep.com/newsletters/boards-of-canada--music-has-the-right-to-children-25th-anv-1</ref>. Note the use of ''''when'''' rather than ''''if'''' implying that the album is confirmed to be in progress.

== Speculation ==
* There have been many theories concerning potential release dates of [[LP5]], or announcements relating to it. So far most of these dates have passed with no discernible activity from [[Boards of Canada]].
* Many speculated a 2025 release date to coincide with the 30th anniversary of [[Boards of Canada]]'s first official release, ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''. Notably, there was a substantial increase in activity on [[Boards of Canada]]'s social media accounts in late 2024 and the first half of 2025. Despite this, no release or major announcements materialised, and a release date for [[LP5]] has yet to be confirmed.

== See Also ==
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]
* [[MDG]]
* [[Discography]]

== External Links ==
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631| General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14811| News & Findings]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7374| General New Release Speculation Topic] (locked Dec 30th 2024)
* [https://www.instagram.com/p/DHY3RUfokrZ/?img_index=1 LP5 post on bocpages' Instagram]

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