Boards of Canada: Classic or Dud?

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Sometimes they sound to me like bland chillout or pasticheurs of 70s Radiophonic music; sometimes they sound too beautiful for words, the music of my dreams. I'm not sure exactly how highly I'd rate them, though. Any thoughts?

― R "P" C, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One of my oldest friends became furious when I politely disagreed with him that "Music Has the Right to Children" was the best album of all time. He gave me a condescending fifteen minute lecture on how BoC was where "all art should be focusing at the moment." He smokes a lot of weed.

As for myself, I like MHTRTC. It's background music, but it's lovely background music all the same. My only consistent complaint with BoC is how analog and cheesy they occasionaly get. Like the last two tracks of the new ep. But at the same time "Bishop Amo Roden" redeems the whole thing. So...a "Classic", with reservations. But still not "where all art should be focusing at the moment."

― Toby, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thoughts? Not if you're playing Boards (or Sigur Ros). Even before the needle hits the record, I fall asleep. Boooooring.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Toby is, erm, on the money.

BoC are at their most interesting to me when they move away from the two formulae I mentioned at the start of this thread. "Chinook", "Rodox Video", "June 9th", "Skipping Stones, "Red Moss" are all excellent - I think BoC Maxima is their best album; too much of MHTRTC is overtly unobtrusive and quiet as you say. Also, "M9", which makes all Parr comparisons redundant.

When they go "analog and cheesy" it's curiously endearing because I really don't like what they're copying at all - I like "Iced Cooly" better than any Roger Limb track I've ever heard. There's something in that faded-brown-to-gold process, I think.

― R "P" C, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

First half of "music has the right..." : DUD Second half of "music has the right..." : minor classic, with incredible moments like ROYGBIV. Anyway, Plone does the ROYGBIV thing better than BoC I think...

― fernando, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

why are the british so uncomfortable using the phrase "on the money"?

― fred solinger, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

because they have the monarchy on their money and don't want to be disrespectful.

boards of canada are really good. i'd say classic, for distilling the one ambient track that's on every idm album and basing a career around it. that's usually the best song anyway.

― ethan, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fernando: I would have agreed with you once about Plone, but now their scope and quality of output sounds quite limited compared to BoC. I must have had a sweeter tooth in 1999 than I do now; how else could I have waved through the likes of "Simple Song", "Marbles", "Bibi Plone" and "Be Rude To Your School" so uncritically? There's a difference between sounding childlike and sounding downright babyish, you know; Plone are at their best on the "Busy Working" / "Greek Alphabet" / "Press A Key" suite of melancholia and reclusiveness.

Fred: I'm not embarrassed with the phrase "on the money", it's just that the Pinefox has turned it into something of a cliche round here and made it hard to use without a moment's tongue in cheek.

― R "P" C, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The more such remarks you make about Britain, Ethan, the less I believe you acknowledge that hip-hop exists here.

― R "P" C, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fucking classic. I think the people who consider them only "background music" must have pretty narrowly prescribed ideas about what foreground music is. I could listen to some of these beats for years, just sitting intently in front of my stereo at full volume.

― Josh, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Absolute classic. I agree with the above post - it's not background music at all. I've had the album for ages now but i was listening to it with headphones on and i heard so many new things on tracks like Telephasic Workshop etc. It was like a totally new record. I like Plone too but i wouldn't compare them. Plone are very kitsch and cheesy but in an acceptably tongue-in-cheek way. I don't understand why people find the Boards cheesy though. The analogue sounds make a refreshing change to all the Autechre, V/VM and Richard Devine digital sounds going about today. BoC are the new Orb

― dog latin, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It may be just my weak grasp of English, but does the sentence "music has the right to children" mean anything ? If not, then Dud for the most annoying album title ever.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't draw a parse-tree in this text box, but rest assured that the title does indeed mean something. Namely, that just as people are endowed with the universal right to procreate, so to is music. Further, the implication seems to be that Boards position themselves as the "children" of music -- i.e. the new generation.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks, Sterling. It's still a really annoying title though.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No it's a beautiful title for a classic album. Bit early though to subject them to C&D innit? Should have waited for the follow-up album (does anyone know when it's out?). Gotta agree with the "this-not- background" section, it's aural dreamstuff, regression therapy for 70s kids or religious music if you believe in the souls of machines. Okay, so it's Classic.

― Omar, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

classic. ish.

'music has the right' took a while for me to love. much of it is classic but there are some boring parts. roygbiv is, of course, the highlight.

the best thing though is probably happy cycling on the peel session (is this on the US version of 'music has...'?)

i disagree about plone though, fernando. i think plone work when they are overly twee and fisher-price like, but too often (on the patchy album) they try and sound darker, or more ambivalent, or go the cod- morricone way, and it doesn't work.

Boc have done some beautiful songs (the last single was wonderful too), and i think its a bit of a shame that they often get categorised as 'smokers music' (which is pretty harsh criticism)

― gareth, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic, beautiful etc. But forgodsake, Dog Latin, NOT the 'new Orb'. There's something so disappointing about The Orb - a sense of good ideas wasted because they couldn't be arsed. IMHO of course.

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whether or not you buy the album as a whole there's no denying how emotionally engaging it is for 'electronica', or how evocative of times and spaces. Whereas other Hard-Drive output fails, BOC succeed in conveying the sensation of presence (being somewhere/sometime) without resorting to the specifics. We don't even know where the sentiments are taking us, to a distant past, memories, regrets; or is it a muted anxiety about the future we haven't arrived at yet. For me the originality comes from their evocation of rural spaces, but this is not soley due to their analogue set-ups or hazy samples. They really express what it's like to be out doors through a love of the countryside, it's some of the only music I know that can compliment nature and fill the sky. So if you think it's background, fine but maybe you've not sat in a field for long enough. I formed my own opinions and loved it like nothing else for months before the Hype came down and everyone started scratching their chins, so for me, a classic, though it's not fair to assess them now. Personally I doubt they have anything else to say, the other non- album material (Happy Cycling excepted) confirms this, and their music doesn't deviate from it's singular trajectory, suggesting that perhaps they spent the whole of their lives until MHTRTC defining this sound. Surely they deserve Classic status for dabbling in nostalgia without an ironic excuse

― K-reg, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If anyone wants more from this field - try Global Goon - Cradle of History. Edit according to taste.

― K-reg, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glad to see the positive responses. I think I love BoC now with only a few hesitations (some of the weaker and more background-ish tracks on MHTRTC; I think most of their finest work is actually on BoC Maxima).

I'd have agreed with you about Plone once, Gareth, but now I find those tracks *unlistenably* twee; I can't get more than a minute into "Marbles" without choking, and don't get me started on "Bibi Plone". Conversely, "Busy Working", "The Greek Alphabet" and "Top And Low Rent" sound better to me than they ever did.

K-reg hits the nail on the head, as often, I think.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes, he does. he's right about the global goon album too

― gareth, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I should note that I've lived around fucking farm country all my life and I never make rural associations with MHTRTC. Is it a British thing?

― Josh, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah Josh, but I think it's more specifically a *vaguely nostalgic* British thing.

― Vespucci, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know why no one has mentioned the Hi Scores EP, which I got before hearing MHTRTC, and still prefer. I find the melodies stronger, and it meanders less...plus it's got my 'everything you do is a balloon' imo a great song, not to mention seeya later with that wonderful bassline

elliot

― elliot, Saturday, 12 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm surprised that they always seem to be regarded as being highly influential -- I like 'em, but they seem pretty derivative of early 90s electronica/ambient. MHTRTTC came out 1998 and didn't exactly break any new ground.

― Johnathan, Sunday, 13 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

josh. i think of boc related ruralness as in woods and stuff rather than agricultural landscape. also think of the edges of medium size towns. but very brit specific. in fact england specific (which is odd with them beig scots).

a more relevant connection for boards of canada is martin parr's boring postcards. which comes back to the nostalgia for innocence thing too

― gareth, Monday, 14 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wondered how long it was going to be ...

What better comparison point for a band who call a track "M9"?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 14 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone know anywhere on the web I can view/download BOC videos/visual materials?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At Hexagon Sun's website, which is presently in the works.

Boards of Canada are many, many light-years ahead of their time. Their product itself is forward-sounding in the present, but their craft is decades ahead. Early forms of electronic music showed us that you can use the most basic, mathematical elements of music to actually listen to what algorithms and formulae sound like. 45 years later, BoC have shown us how a logarithm or the golden mean can sound as beautiful and as aurally pleasing as they are intensely fascinating.

With BoC, electronic music is moved firmly out of the urban environment which spawned it and into a world where synthesizers coexist with hundred-year-old willow trees. Occasionally, the music dives into suburbia to pick up the soccer children, but it takes them out to the fields instead of to Hot Topic. Along the way, we get to see glimpses of genuine, hypothetical implementations of that which once embodied the suburban existance--interpersonal unity and a wide-eyed observation of the surrounding world.

I hope that what I'm saying sounds a bit emotional, because there is no other way to describe Boards of Canada. Not only are they a 'classic,' but they are a clear indication of a majour path which portions of electronic music are already beginning to undertake. People who judge them based solely on their aural aesthetic may be missing the point now, but I feel confident that, in the future, the progression of time will reveal them for what they truly are.

― matthew m., Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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and into a world where synthesizers coexist with hundred-year-old willow trees.

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love this. Also the term 'soccer children' = beautiful, somehow very BoC. Ah well, that used to be me ;)

― Omar, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Agree with alot of what you're saying Matthew. The pastoral aspect seems very undervalued in their work. Although they sound nothing like them,I'm always reminded of the Incredible String Band when I listen to them. It could be the beards of course though.

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yes Omar. It's an evocative phrase. And how. Sounds better than "advert children" which I was playing with a while ago.

Since one of my earlier threads seems to have been resuscitated, I'll just add that I probably rate BoC higher in terms of *magic realism* than I ever have. I can sort of see where Billy's coming from with the ISB comparison, as well: if you're looking for the halfway point, Bill, I'm waiting with a C90 of "The Fourth Dimension" ...

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

_Music Has A Right To Children_ is an album that grows in magnitude the more I hear it. It's an astounding piece of work, mixing repetition with warmth, emotions pinned firmly to to senquencer pads.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

This summer I inherited a huge batch of CDs (many of them which could be classed as electronica) from a former friend I was communicating with again during his last few months. This CD was in that batch. Despite the intriguing name, title, and graphic design, I consider it a dud, though I did give it a few listens before consigning it to the discard pile. (As I've said elsewhere though, this is a genre that I rarely like.)

― DeRayMi, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Reevaluate?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 21 August 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

is that a command?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 21 August 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

no that would be RE-EVALUATE!!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 August 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bilderberg.org/chpsyco.jpg

The 70's BBC children's television series, The Changes, is an
indisputable influence for MHTRC. Robin Carmody is well aware. His BBC Radiophonic Workshop essay is outstanding.

IABP and Geogaddi are minor shifts in the BoC sound. The whole David Koresh theme is creepy, but I love it.

I say they're ace, hands-down, CLASSIC. They make beautiful textures, tones, and melodies with very few synths and outdated samplers and that is no simple feat!

Any ILXors ever been to the Pentland Hills area or met the BoC or any of the music70 collective?

― Cub, Thursday, 21 August 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

pentlands, yeah.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Twoism = Good Idea
Hi Scores = Great Execution
Music Has the Right to Children = Classic
Geogaddi = A Step Back; loss of innocence?

Boards of Canada = Near Classic; depends on what they do next.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 21 August 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I find the early material too simple and lacking the gauzy warped projector feel that MHTRTC has, I thought IABPBTC was very weak (only listened to it 3 times), haven't heard Geodaddi enough to comment...

re: the "british sound" as mentioned above: stirmonster (v. occasional glaswegan ILM poster) once mentioned elsewhere [heavy paraphrase ahead] that he found the prettiness of BoC's music a sharp contrast to the dreadful starkness of the north coast of scotland.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

roy g biv sounds better when ine kamoze sings the hotstepper over it
*ducks*

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been to the pentlands, they're rubbish.

Not in the north of Scotland though, just next to Edinburgh. The Pale Saints recorded some of their records near there.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 21 August 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ah okay, my horrible paraphrase caveat stands.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 21 August 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

look how polite everyone is upthread! i swear, it's that george bush setting the tone of ilx discussion recently.

anyhow, classic, "geogaddi" included.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 21 August 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

so, what about now?

in some ways i think much of their back catalogue is a bit tainted by the beats. as in, they seem unnecessarily leaden. they certainly date the records to a particular time period (its less apparent on geogaddi i guess). i like pretty much everything still, but the beats detract for me, or, at least, are the worst parts of most of their stuff

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 10 April 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

they should do 8 more remixes, and then release a remix album.

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 10 April 2005 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to a new one but they may have left it a bit long between releases for people to put up with yet more of their schtick (a lovely schtick as it is). They could do with going for a new but not totally new sound/angle if you see what I mean.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 10 April 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't disagree charltonlido, but then again it was never the BoC's beats that did it for me, more their exquisite off-kilter melodies. They still sound strong.

― stevo (stevo), Sunday, 10 April 2005 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a brainwave that Geogaddi might sync up with the movie The Wicker Man. And it did for the first few scenes - very nicely too!

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 10 April 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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xp yes, thanks. i have pre-ordered and got suckered in by the snazzy red vinyl

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:29 (five days ago)

yeah it doesn't sound like there are going to be a lot of beats on this record. Tape 5 was certainly in that vein of abstraction.

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:30 (five days ago)

from the description, this is the BoC album I'm wishing for. I want it to be roiling and angry and dark and pissed off

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Wednesday, April 22, 2026 11:28 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:34 (five days ago)

roilin roilin roilin roilin WHAT

― . (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:37 (five days ago)

dig the cover art

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:40 (five days ago)

I'm trying to imagine what "pissed off" BoC would sound like? They have a wide emotional palette but anger isn't something I typically associate with them. What's the angriest extant BoC track???

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:41 (five days ago)

You can pre-order via Bandcamp now too if that's how you roll
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/inferno

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:46 (five days ago)

the font plus the title point towards this being their disco record

― nxd, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 15:51 (five days ago)

I'm jazzed. I bet "Blood in the Labyrinth" is going to go so hard.

Between the new promo video and Tape 05, I have a feeling this one's going to be very abstract and densely textured. I'd love to hear some more big bright synth melodies from them, but I doubt that's the direction this is going. Who knows though, Tomorrow's Harvest had "Nothing is Real".

― OneSecondBefore, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 16:14 (five days ago)

Bleep has enabled a couple of things (waiting room between pages/order stages) but it looks like it's working now

― StanM, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:03 (five days ago)

No doubt there will be months of close readings, conspiracy theories, and conjecture about artwork, song titles, and samples, and this one probably means nothing, but the title "Prophecy At 1420 MHz" immediately made me think of Public Enemy ("Incident At 66.6 FM")

― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:09 (five days ago)

1420MHz is the frequency of the famous 'Wow" signal

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:16 (five days ago)

searching "Platonia" led me to this: http://www.platonia.com/ideas.html

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:34 (five days ago)

Specifically, 1420 MHz is known as the "watering hole" - the radio spectral line of neutral hydrogen. Useful for mapping out the structure of galaxies, and often thought of as the obvious place to look for radio transmissions from extraterrestrials. Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_hole_(radio)

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 17:53 (five days ago)

Shot...:

I was adding some items to a list of favorite quotes that I keep, and I saw this old favorite:
They're probably in the future somewhere worrying about why it isn't like the past.
- Sean Booth of Autechre when asked about Boards of Canada during a Twitch AMA on June 5, 2022

...chaser:

I just saw that one of the tracks on the upcoming Boards of Canada album is titled Somewhere Right Now In The Future. 😂

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 18:22 (five days ago)

The past inside the present. So psyched

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 19:43 (five days ago)

All this hype finally convinced me to check out Tomorrow's Harvest which I never got around to, it's pretty good.

― silverfish, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 19:47 (five days ago)

IMO Tape 05 is so good that all the other tracks could be shit and the album wouldn't disappoint.

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:01 (five days ago)

Tomorrow's Harvest doesn't get as many props cos it's so understated, but it really is a masterpiece

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:12 (five days ago)

uhh i don't see "tape 05" in the tracklist. is it called something else?

― dream mummy (map), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:13 (five days ago)

Father And Son, I assume. Unless it's a Cat Stevens cover

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:17 (five days ago)

hard to tell, Tape 05 is 3:22 on youtube so could be Father And Son (3:24) or Deep Time (3:18) or just not there
got the email from bleep just after boarding a cross country train, that was fun trying to place an order on shaky phone wifi

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:20 (five days ago)

dunno if I see the point in preordering, I assume they're gonna make lots and lots of copies of this

― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:25 (five days ago)

Their shipping rates to Europe are crazy. Guess I’ll just have to wait for this to hit stores (or turn up on Amazon).

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:32 (five days ago)

xp: right? I’m going to wait for a day, after May 29, when it’s convenient to stop into the record store to get a copy. If it’s sold out, I’ll wait for a restock. I can’t imagine this is going to be rare…

― ed.b, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:43 (five days ago)

I just got carried away in it all

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 20:48 (five days ago)

I preordered because it's nice to have a package coming in the mail :)

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 21:13 (five days ago)

I wanted the evil-looking red vinyl

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 21:15 (five days ago)

so excited for this.
13 trips around the sun for us since their last release.
53.5 for Mercury
22 for Venus
7 for Mars
1.1 for Jupiter
0.5 for Saturn
0.15 on Uranus
0.08 for Neptune

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 21:38 (five days ago)

red vinyl comes with a 16 page booklet, that pushed me over the edge on getting it.

― octobeard, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 21:59 (five days ago)

Nowhere does it say that the deluxe version is limited, right?

― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 22:10 (five days ago)

IMO Tape 05 is so good that all the other tracks could be shit and the album wouldn't disappoint.

Wait actually there's no way the album can live up to Tape 05, we're doomed.

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 22:22 (five days ago)

https://i.redd.it/fd4x2lrzdrwg1.jpeg

Apparently Robert Beatty is the artist behind the Tape 05 music video and future video and visual content!

And an exclusive listening party on the 22nd of May as well as local events on the 28th.

Given no mention of his involvement in the cover art, I presume Boards of Canada did that themselves. Seems an interesting bookend to the art for Music Has the Right to Children.

― octobeard, Wednesday, 22 April 2026 23:12 (five days ago)

huh I had actually wondered if it was Julian House, but that checks out! I wonder if they go thru and licence all that archive or just use it on some kinda fair dealing basis

― Cod:Shellfish (emsworth), Wednesday, 22 April 2026 23:21 (five days ago)

This is actually the best news of the year so far (admittedly most of the news has been awful)

― chap, Thursday, 23 April 2026 00:11 (four days ago)

I may actually try to cop this in a store - it’s been a minute.

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 23 April 2026 00:41 (four days ago)

this and a new Mouse on Mars a week later, I'm kinda equally excited tbh

― frogbs, Thursday, 23 April 2026 03:04 (four days ago)

re: track 7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Thursday, 23 April 2026 04:22 (four days ago)

looks like the previous image I posted was deleted, here's another attempt

https://i.imgur.com/VqbQtTy.png

― octobeard, Thursday, 23 April 2026 04:27 (four days ago)

Need that BoC cap

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 23 April 2026 05:23 (four days ago)

Need that BoC crap

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Thursday, 23 April 2026 07:41 (four days ago)

Naraka is 13 years with no new BoC album

― frogbs, Thursday, 23 April 2026 13:20 (four days ago)

Naraka is my favourite Mortal Kombat character

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Thursday, 23 April 2026 13:24 (four days ago)

even their promo materials are on-vibe

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Thursday, 23 April 2026 18:16 (four days ago)

i need that album cover as a shower curtain.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 23 April 2026 18:23 (four days ago)

Look, whatever you do - don't repost this to /r/boardsofcanada right now. They're nice and I don't want to give them a coronary in this time of excitement.

OTOH, 100% an alternative front cover

https://gerryanderson.com/cdn/shop/files/thunderbirds-inferno-audiobook-free-download-5872642.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 April 2026 21:12 (four days ago)

looks more like a surf rock album than BOC’s aesthetic

― The New Blockader (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 April 2026 21:16 (four days ago)

ah didn’t see your link

― The New Blockader (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 23 April 2026 21:17 (four days ago)

I think you can make a case that Gerry Anderson shows are at least Level 3 hauntological

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 April 2026 21:39 (four days ago)

Warp is pressing deluxe vinyl for everyone who ordered (i.e. limited in time rather than number)

https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/s/52e5aUL7cA

― StanM, Thursday, 23 April 2026 21:40 (four days ago)

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