Six days after unveiling the unreleased “Tape 05”, the fraternal Scottish duo confirms its comeback, announcing a fifth album, “Inferno”, due on May 29.
It was a prescient omen that proved true. After breaking, last week, thirteen years of an interminable discographic silence since Tomorrow’s Harvest (2013) by releasing, to everyone’s surprise, Tape 05 (an intriguing ambient piece in VHS mode), Boards of Canada will indeed make their discographic return in 2026. The brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin have just announced the release of their fifth album, Inferno, for May 29, still on their long-time Warp label since the monumental Music Has the Right to Children (1998).
As is customary with the Scottish duo, little information circulates about this new record, aside from the (stunning) cover art unveiled, the tracklist revealed, and a first teaser that remains as enigmatic as ever.
01 Introit
02 Prophecy at 1420 MHz
03 Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan
04 Age of Capricorn
05 Father and Son
06 Somewhere Right Now in the Future
07 Naraka
08 Acts of Magic
09 Memory Death
10 The Word Becomes Flesh
11 Into the Magic Land
12 Blood in the Labyrinth
13 Deep Time
14 All Reason Departs
15 Arena Americanada
16 The Process
17 You Retreat in Time And Space
18 I Saw Through Platonia
Inferno (Warp/Kuroneko). Out on May 29.
