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"[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" is the seventeenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.
  
 
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* 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.
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* The first nearly three minutes of the track may have inspired by the 1979 track [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLhayEzDesE&t=134s/ Sea Cathedral by Christian Chevalier], which was included on [[Boards of Canada]]'s 2019 mixtape [[Societas x Tape]] as the outro track, prior to [[Inferno]]’s release.
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* 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.
 
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* 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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* During the first half of the track, sounds of ocean waves hitting a shore can be heard.
  
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* The first half of the song sounds nearly identical when played forward or reversed.
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* At the [[Inferno listening parties]], this song had its own unique visuals, which consisted of sped-up turquoise-colored 1970s-era home videos of children. This was unlike the other tracks, which were accompanied simply by a hexagon flower spinning with fire inside. The visuals shown have not been officially released.
  
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Latest revision as of 10:34, 12 September 2026

You Retreat In Time And Space
Running time 5:25
Appears on Inferno (2026)
Next I Saw Through Platonia
Prev The Process


"You Retreat In Time And Space" is the seventeenth track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno.


Comments[edit]

Samples / Lyrics[edit]

  • During the first half of the track, sounds of ocean waves hitting a shore can be heard.

Trivia[edit]

  • The first half of the song sounds nearly identical when played forward or reversed.
  • At the Inferno listening parties, this song had its own unique visuals, which consisted of sped-up turquoise-colored 1970s-era home videos of children. This was unlike the other tracks, which were accompanied simply by a hexagon flower spinning with fire inside. The visuals shown have not been officially released.

Videos[edit]

Audio[edit]

See Also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

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