In early April 2026, a handful of Boards of Canada fans received mysterious VHS tapes marked with a logo consisting of seven tessellated hexagons, immediately leading to speculation that Boards of Canada were signalling their long-awaited return following 2013's Tomorrow's Harvest. The VHS tapes were allegedly sent through distribution channels linked to Warp Records and its retail arm Bleep, reinforcing speculation that the tapes are connected to Boards of Canada.

Since April 10, mysterious posters containing the same hexagon logo as the VHS tapes have appeared in Soho, London, UK and Hollywood, California, USA. These posters were later acknowledged by Warp Records on social media, confirming their connection to the duo.

Boards of Canada formally returned on April 16th with a video entitled "Tape 05", which was uploaded to their YouTube channel and other social media. It contains a previously unreleased 3-minute ambient track and higher quality visuals previously seen in the VHS tapes. This culminated in the formal announcement of Inferno on April 22nd, to be released by Warp the following month.

In the lead-up to the May 29th release of Inferno, the album was promoted with a set of listening parties called "Inferno Sessions" to be held on May 22nd, and a promotional single / video for the first two tracks, "Introit" and "Prophecy At 1420 MHz", released on May 7th.

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VHS Tape Mailings

Description

Possible official Promo - NTSC/PAL Cassette Tapes with Black Matte paper casing. 7 Hexagons screened in white on top of VHS tape with white NTSC/PAL sticker. No other markings. It should be noted that on the mailing label, Ochre, in the sender's name, Ochre Logistics Limited, is a type of orange coloring. Orange is a well-known color reference in Boards of Canada's discography. However, Ochre is also the name of the platform Bleep.com runs on, and it is likely the tapes come from Bleep. It has been speculated that the 2025 BoC merch on Bleep was used to collect the postal addresses of the best people to send the tapes to.

There's a gallery available with some additional tape photos.

April 6, 2026

The first known VHS tapes were received on this date, all in NTSC format.

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
1	ntsc	dremstat	discogs
2	ntsc	geraldine_ferrari	reddit	proton drive	reddit
3	ntsc	tomistomorrow	reddit		youtube
4	ntsc	dandelion1969	reddit	proton drive	youtube

April 7, 2026

A large wave of tapes arrived, including the first PAL format tapes.

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
5	pal	mpstewart	reddit	youtube
6	pal	Lone	instagram
7	pal	nalaknip	twitter
8	ntsc	Stagliaf	reddit	youtube	reddit
9	pal	subtopia_north	reddit	archive.org	youtube	longer tape
10	ntsc	zazen23	reddit	proton drive	youtube
11	ntsc	erkston	reddit	proton drive	youtube
12	ntsc	Hexagon_sun33	reddit
13	ntsc	plastiq	tmw
14	ntsc	errorsinspace	n/a				n/a
15	pal	simon lamb	facebook group			longer tape
16	pal	jonathan stephens	instagram
17	ntsc	Skyraider	twoism forum	rareboc
26	?	decolocc	reddit

Analysis: Moody Bible Institute

The vocal transcription

	BocPages / Reddit	Keendrops	Twoism (TorrentialTrain/Qualia)
1	—	That’s important!	—
2	In every new issue of the monthly magazine for seekers everywhere.	New Life with a monthly magic report serve everywhere.	Step into a new light, with the monthly magazine, for teachers everywhere.
3	Devotees arrive with exclusive supersonic flexi-disks	The issue arrives with the exclusive hexa-sonic flexi disc.	Due to arrive with the exclusive hexasonic flexi disc
4	Bearing voices and music that strike the heart. Subscribe now!	Telling what is in the ______ ______. Subscribe now!	Carrying voices and music to guide the heart. Subscribe now!
5	Every month find a record with devotion with a hexagonal sound disc.	Every month ______ ______ with voices ______ boundless coverage.	Every month, find the record with voices and signals, sounds in the television depicting
7	Discover the new issue: six-sided flexible carrying high-fidelity recordings from the MBI Institute.	Use the hexidisc. Six-sided flexible carrying private triple recording from the MBI Institute.	a six sided flexible carrying. Trigger recordings from the MBI Institute
8	Hear the patterns, follow the shapes.	Hear the pattern of ownership / __ shape .	Hear the pattern. Look at the shapes.
6	This marks the first low of a strange dessert, reflections and source of life	This march/patch/month ______ ______ reflection and source of light.	This month, supply is limited. Run the math, subscribe today. Reflections and stories of light!
9	Now with your first issue, you’ll receive the exclusive flexi-hexidisc, a hexagon of sound ______ ______ ______ ______.	Now with your first issue, you’ll receive the exclusive flexi hexi disc on hexagon of sound ______ past ______ ______.	And with your first issue, you’ll receive the exclusive 'flexi-hexi-disc' - a hexagon of sound, filled with voices and signals!
10	Subscribe today, discover the New Month's journey.	Discover the new path of journey.	Don’t hold out, subscribe today. Discover the new monthly journey.
11	Each issue brings insight into devotion and a unique exodus of voices and music to guide your path.	She brings insights the functionally unique exodus before the voice and music to guide your path.	The future brings insight, devotion, and 3 hexi-discs - the voices and music that guide your path.
12	The guide is the light that calls them.	The guide to the light that calls us.	The guide to the light that calls us!
13	Music and spoken words to make way clear.	Music and spoken word_ the way its clear.	The spoken word comes away clear.
14	The first issue is free.	The first _ is free.	The first disc is free.
15	From the first line to the last word, the message is clear.	From the first line to the last word, the message is clear	From the first line, to the last word - the message is clear!
16	It's monthly devotion, revelation, and the exclusive hexasong from the desk.	Each box, devotion, revelation, and the exclusive hexasong exodus .	Each month: Devotion, Revelation, and the exclusive hexaphone flexi disc.
17	All for only 2.95, call now!	All for only $2.95. Call now!	All for only $2.95. Call now!

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April 8, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
18	ntsc	ecassell	reddit			longer tape, will be digitised soon
19	pal	auldgoggie	reddit
20	ntsc	Ace January	facebook group
27	ntsc	Lphovercraft	personal mail	archive.org

Analysis: Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker

• Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker in VHS footage (2026-04-08) (reddit)

American televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker with her husband Jim Bakker. They were prominent figures in the 1980s, building the religious television empire known as "The PTL Club" (Praise the Lord). The couple's public image and empire collapsed following scandals related to financial fraud and sexual misconduct in 1987.

April 9, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
21	ntsc	saintsantiago6010	reddit
22	pal	Chapelier Fou	youtube		youtube	first pal tape recording	n/a
23	ntsc	meshugganner	reddit
24	pal	Greg Rouyer	facebook group
25	ntsc	fromtelegraphlines7	reddit	proton drive
38	ntsc	AdministrativeDelay2	reddit				n/a
39	pal	Level_Composer_3803	reddit		youtube	first dutch sighting

VHS Observations Spreadsheet

• Spreadsheet for VHS Observations (2026-04-09) (reddit)

This sheet segregates every frame into "scenes", which is anytime the visual changes substantially (whether its 1 frame or 100 frames). Descriptions are kept as objective and abstract as possible unless we can reasonably confirm whats being shown. Notes are reflexive first impressions. Origin will ideally be urls of source material. Shoutout to the person here who zipped every frame into jpegs.

April 10, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
28	pal	KillerFerkl	reddit
29	ntsc	icewax	discogs			longer tape, first canada sighting
30	ntsc	Vincent Brinker	instagram
31	ntsc	Sad_Pomegranate_1539	reddit			longer tape
32	ntsc	fernbrain	instagram
33	pal	Stan Rosen	instagram story
36	ntsc	Slapdick McGee	reddit

April 11, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
34	ntsc	echoglyphs' friend	reddit
35	ntsc	Robby Russell	bluesky
37	ntsc	degrees-of-certainty	reddit
43	pal	Roler Schnapz	personal message

April 14, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
40	ntsc	LeNordique	reddit

April 16, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
41	ntsc	sjkanteriii	reddit
42	pal	dagoberti.ducki	ebay

April 20, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
45	ntsc	biz	discord

April 21, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
44	pal	ZosoCon	twoism forum		youtube

April 22, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
46	pal	jeromefaria	discord

April 23, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
47	ntsc	raymondobrien	raymondobrien		youtube	Puerto Rico

April 24, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
48	pal	verlindendavid6	instagram			Belgium

April 27, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
49	pal	Epsilons World	bluesky

April 30, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
50	pal	neric	bluesky

May 6, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
51	pal	dragos dulea	facebook group			Romania

May 19, 2026

tape	region	owner	original post	direct rip	recordings	notes	photo
52	pal	Brynjar Leó Hreiðarsson	personal message			Iceland

Posters

Shortly after the VHS tape mailings, various posters started appearing containing the same logo seen on the VHS tape. This list should be treated as incomplete, as new posters are currently being discovered. These locations are added to a Google My Maps.

date	address	country	photo
2026-04-10	15F St. Anne's Ct, Soho, London	UK
2026-04-11	Exit 6B, Hollywood Freeway, East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California	USA
2026-04-11	149 Oxford Street, Soho, London	UK
2026-04-12	239-243 Mare St, Hackney, London	UK
2026-04-12	Ponsford St, Hackney, London	UK
2026-04-12	34 Acre Ln, Brixton, London	UK
2026-04-12	Hollywood Western II, 5450 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California	USA
2026-04-13	10 Rutgers St., Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York	USA
2026-04-13	3 Ludlow St., Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York	USA
2026-04-13	38 Allen St., Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York	USA
2026-04-14	1500 North Western Avenue, East Hollywood, Los Angeles	USA
2026-04-14	6445 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California	USA
2026-04-14	Kimlau Square, Chinatown, New York	USA
2026-04-14	LIQUIDROOM, 3-16-6, Higashi, Shibuya	JP
2026-04-20	Nigel Road (Stop EA), Rye Lane, Peckham, London	UK

Website

April 16, 2026

Boards of Canada launched a website where you can enter your email address to register for first access to all the latest updates.

On the same day, Boards of Canada published a new video entitled "Tape 05" to their YouTube and social media pages.

April 21, 2026

Boards of Canada introduced a new profile picture for their social media, streaming & website presence.

April 22, 2026

Boards of Canada announced Inferno.

April 28, 2026

Boards of Canada announce listening sessions for new album Inferno.

The series will take place on May 22nd in the following cities:

• Tokyo
• Berlin
• Barcelona
• London
• Glasgow
• New York
• Los Angeles

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 1.

Sign up by Thursday, April 30, at 3:00 p.m. BST for access.

https://boardsofcanada.com

May 7, 2026

Boards of Canada release "Introit" / "Prophecy At 1420 MHz" on YouTube, serving as the opening suite of Inferno.

May 12, 2026

Boards of Canada provide detailed information about the worldwide record store listening parties, Thursday May 28.

See Also

• Road to Inferno
• Inferno
• Inferno listening parties
• Timeline
• Statements from Hexagon Sun
• Discography

External Links

Articles

Billboard

• Warp Records' cryptic poster run hints at Boards of Canada return (Billboard)

Brooklyn Vegan

• Boards of Canada share first new music in 13 years (Brooklyn Vegan)
• Boards of Canada announce first album in 13 years (Brooklyn Vegan)
• Boards of Canada announce worldwide listening parties for first album in 13 years (Brooklyn Vegan)
• Boards of Canada share "Introit" / "Prophecy At 1420 MHz" from first album in 13 years (Brooklyn Vegan)

Clash Magazine

• Boards Of Canada Seem To Be Teasing Something (Clash Magazine)

Consequence Sound

• Boards of Canada Release First New Song in 13 Years: Stream (Consequence Sound)
• Boards of Canada Unveil New Songs “Introit” and “Prophecy At 1420 MHz”: Stream (Consequence Sound)

Dansende Beren

• Nieuwe muziek van Boards of Canada – “Tape 05” (Dansende Beren)
• Nieuwe singles Boards of Canada – “Introit” & “Prophecy at 1420 MHz” (Dansende Beren)

DJ Mag

• Boards Of Canada seem to tease return via cryptic VHS tapes (DJ Mag)
• Boards Of Canada's Hexagon Sun symbol appears on posters in multiple cities, Warp Records shares (DJ Mag)
• Boards Of Canada announce ‘inferno’ global listening sessions (DJ Mag)

Electronic Groove

• Boards of Canada spark return rumors with VHS tapes (Electronic Groove)

Exclaim!

• Are Boards of Canada Teasing a Comeback? (Exclaim!)

Far Out Magazine

• Boards of Canada: The two-headed Banksy of the music world (Far Out Magazine)

FLOOD Magazine

• And Just Like That, Boards of Canada Are Back…Maybe? (FLOOD Magazine)
• Boards of Canada Announce Listening Parties for New Inferno LP (FLOOD Magazine)

Gizmodo

• Mysterious VHS Tapes May Herald the Release of a New Boards of Canada Project (Gizmodo)

Happy Mag

• Is a new Boards Of Canada album coming? Mysterious VHS tapes say maybe (Happy Mag)

mixmag

• Boards of Canada invite fans to listen to new album ahead of release (mixmag)
• Boards of Canada drop trippy new singles ‘Introit’ and ‘Prophecy At 1420 MHz’ (mixmag)

mxdwn

• Boards Of Canada Reportedly Tease New Music With Mysterious VHS Tapes Sent To Fans (mxdwn)

NME

• Boards Of Canada release trippy double A-side ‘ ‘Introit’ and ‘Prophecy At 1420 MHz’ (NME)

Pitchfork

• Boards of Canada Return With First New Music in 13 Years (Pitchfork)
• The psychedelic Scottish electronic duo returns from the depths with a cryptic yet beautiful transmission. (Pitchfork Advisor)
• Boards of Canada Drop Two New Songs (Pitchfork)

Resident Advisor

• Boards of Canada spark comeback rumours with mysterious VHS mailouts (Resident Advisor)
• "Tape 05" was uploaded to YouTube today (Resident Advisor)
• Boards of Canada announce listening sessions for new album Inferno (Resident Advisor)
• Listen to two new Boards of Canada tracks, 'Introit' and 'Prophecy At 1420 MHz' (Resident Advisor)

Stereogum

• Boards Of Canada Mail Mysterious VHS To Fans (Stereogum)
• Boards Of Canada Share First New Music In 13 Years (Stereogum)
• Boards Of Canada – “Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz”

The Needle Drop

• Mysterious VHS tapes seemingly point to the return of Scottish duo Boards of Canada (The Needle Drop)

The Quietus

• Boards Of Canada Trigger Comeback Speculation Amid Cryptic VHS Mailouts
• Warp Records Hints at Boards Of Canada Return with Mysterious Posters
• Boards Of Canada Share New Track, ‘Tape 05’ (The Quietus)
• Boards Of Canada Detail New Album, ‘Inferno’ (The Quietus)
• Boards Of Canada Announce ‘Inferno’ Album Listening Events (The Quietus)

Treble Zine

• Boards of Canada reveal details of new album Inferno (Treble Zine)
• Boards of Canada announce Inferno listening parties (Treble Zine)

Tsugi

• Le duo Boards of Canada serait-il bientôt de retour ? (Tsugi) (FR)

Uncut

• Listen to Boards of Canada’s first new music for 13 years (Uncut)

Under The Radar =

• Boards of Canada Share Two New Songs “Introit” and “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” (Under The Radar)

We Rave You

• Boards of Canada announce ‘Inferno’ listening sessions across 7 cities (We Rave You)

Sources

Discord

• BOC VHS Tape Tracker Google Sheet via TMW Discord, [1]

Forums

• General New Release Speculation Topic Part II via Twoism forum
• Mystery VHS Tape Transcription via Twoism forum
• News & Findings via Twoism forum

Various

• The Inferno Experience [V1 WIP] | playlist by demo sphere
• BoCARG | Visual Infinite Board on Miro
• BoC - LP5 | A collection of notable and super interesting tems from the 2026 VHS on YouTube
• boc tape inventory | Spreadsheet for VHS Observations
• Inferno Promo Campaign | Notion database by Keendrops/Sashaowl