Prophecy At 1420 MHz
Running time	5:04
Appears on	Inferno
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"Prophecy At 1420 MHz" is the second track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno. It was released alongside "Introit" on May 7th, 2026, as the album's lead single.

Samples / Lyrics

• The vocal heard over the track is sampled from "In the Beginning Was Consciousness", a lecture by Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr at Harvard Divinity School on May 1, 2003. The lyrics are spliced together from different parts of the lecture and Q&A.
• Timestamps in the table below correspond to the referenced youtube video of the lecture. Words and phrases from the lecture have been combined to create new phrases altogether.

Timestamp	Lyric
Multiple	End
1:17:26	Nothingness
1:25:14	Comes to a greater awareness of itself
0:21:30	Divine intellect
1:18:14	I am the truth
1:16:56	Extinction
Multiple	A question
0:58:49	of reality
Multiple	Consciousness
1:18:09	I am god
0:31:30	The ultimate
1:24:36	Resonance
1:26:15	Spirit and the soul, or the psyche
Multiple	Conscious
1:26:49	Transcendent source
1:27:24	Seat of consciousness
Multiple	Power
1:21:02	It is in a sense the religion of the modern world
1:22:07	The scientific view of nature
1:24:51	Synchronicity
1:24:54	Consciousness has operational effect
1:25:02	Cause and effect
1:17:26	Nothingness
1:23:05	The absolute truth

Trivia

• 1420 MHz is the resonance frequency of hydrogen, the most commonly-occurring element in the universe. This frequency is part of a "protected spectrum", reserved for astronomical/extraterrestrial research; terrestrial transmissions on this frequency are forbidden. The frequency is often mentioned in the context of the "Wow! signal", an unexplained signal (with this frequency) that was detected on August 15th, 1977.

Videos

The split music video for the song was released on May 7th, 2026, through the band's official YouTube channel.
It is directed by Robert Beatty and produced by Greg Burne of Big Active.