It's fucking over
agreed honestly
300,000 years from now nobody will even know who Boards of Canada are. So who cares
>these new lofi beats to study to are not as good as the old lofi beats to study to
>>130463316This album is the furthers thing from lo fi possible anon, I'm begging you to use semi accurate bait
>>130463122My biggest complaint is that the theme was dealt with in a rather heavy-handed fashion.
>>130463399we are in a heavy handed world bbz. I think it was a conscious choice and it works
>>130463122I seriously don't get the hype and appeal. Doesn't sound that much different from similar electornic music that's been made since the 70s.
>>130463122the album is superb.It was a mistake to release Deep Time as a video.Even as joke. This is their best album. And you want it to be named Inferno?Everything but the music is wrong.
BOC at their most uninspired and laziest. A fucking Hare Krishna chant is the lowest hanging fruit for an album that's supposed to sound spiritual. The vocal chops in general ruin this - the music itself isn't half bad, but most songs would be better off purely instrumental, especially since so many of them end up sounding like fucking youtube poops. "Father And Son" and "The Word Becomes Flesh" suffer IMMENSLY because of this. The album neither reaches the subtlety of "Geogaddi" or the immaculate atmosphere of "Tomorrow's Harvest". Their worst offering to date without a shred of doubt - which doesn't mean much anyway, since a 6/10 album is still album of the year in AD 2026.
>>130463611they are having fun with the vocals, and I am having fun with them.
>>130463528>This is their best albumYou're deranged, on crack or both
>>130463122It’s… perfectly fine? It’s also the sound of a completely spent creative force buying into their own meme… BoC can make this music in their sleep at this point. You listen to something like the entirety of IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OUT IN THE COUNTRY or the original “Happy Cycling” or “Everything You Do Is Balloon”… that’s the maturation of a sonic palette. They really were a new proposition, back in the day….Anything after THE CAMPFIRE HEADPHASE is musical spam to me. Debate the wall.
the first 9 tracks where trash, the last ones were good
>>130463754>It’s… perfectly fine?Isn't that what mid is? Middle of the road. Not good. Not bad. Just fine?
>>130463762i have a gripe with You Retreat In Time And Space. Its too self aware. I cry because my plastic cat died.
I kinda get the idea of not liking the album since I hated Tomorrow's Harvest, though it's grown on me as I got older, but wow, I don't think I ever disagreed harder, Inferno is a masterpiece
>>130463864I instantly liked tomorrow's harvest but dislike this one desu
>>130463786I mean… it’s whatever. One of the most iconic, once-upon-a-time hyper talented electronic acts in human history put out an album 13 years after the last time they put out an album 8 years after they put out an album… not getting too misty eyed about any of this. I can’t think of one thing … ONE THING … that this album does better than GEODADDI or, hell, even the average Broken Beat or UK Techno album from the 90s (see: pic rel)It’s all just so dumb (as in:who cares?) Boards of Canada and their late 90s Warp Recordsisms in 2026. What a fucking bore.
>>130463910OLDFAG BREAKING DOWN LAMO
>>130463911Thoughts on the new Olivia Rodrigo?
It was good but does anyone else miss the proto-dubstep of old tracks like Amo Bishop Roden?
>>130464162i like their new dubstep direction
>>130463315kek
>>130463992>Thoughts on the new Olivia RodrigoEh. We already did both “kinder-whore” and alternative nation riot grrrls back in the day, the band Bratmobile was kind of both at the same! If you were okay with a little bit of armpit hair, these girls could absolutely milk your dick… we even did indie sleaze and scene chicks… you think the sluts who like Deftones today are “sex positive”? Please. … then some flip built like a 2x4 plank of wood comes along, rips Courtney Love’s look circa LIVE THROUGH THIS and everyone loses their minds? It’s embarrassing.
>>130463315based and perspectivepilled
It starts out pretty alright, but once it plays Naraka, the rest of the album is really good. One of the strongest albums 2026 so far, though that's more a testament to how shit this year has been for music.
>>130463122it's fucking amazing. you are retarded
Hello? Based department?
I like it :)
Why are y'all so negative? It's not all the time that the appeal makes itself obvious right away. And I liked it, there's some good cuts on here. These days, it's a lot easier to hate on everything and act like snobs to look cool then it is to actually enjoy things. A lot easier to call things mid than to describe what you actually thought of it. Do you people even like anything? This album has BOC written all over it. What were you even expecting?
>>130463611I disagree on everything aside from the fact that Tomorrow's Harvest has some of the best atmosphere of all of their albums. Tomorrow's Harvest was an immediate love for me, this album? Not so much. But it's cool. I think mid is a perfect ranking for this album.
>>130464831It's also easier to love and praise touristcore than it is to actually go out and find good music that hasn't yet hit any sort of "mainstream" popularity
Everything to do with this album has been weirdly straightforward and uninspired, from its title and the marketing campaign (at least compared to TH) to most of the tracks sounding like they were made using drum loops and presets that came with whatever software they were working in.
>>130465055yeah, lots of sounds are like poop VST and random vanilla stuff, and the orchestration is all over the place with no cohesion. this is most likely a folder of discarded songs that were thrown together>?>Profit!
>>130463122on one hand, its based and Geogaddipilledon the other hand, it sounds and plays like every other BoC canada>t. listening to Age of Capricorn r/nit would be so "disappointing" if we didnt have to wait like, 14 years
>>130466085there are like 3 songs that sound like old BoC songs. I actually like how different it is. Mad how brains can interpret things so differently
>>130466171I mean some of them can sound different, I like how they're sampling different sounds and shitbut the moment I hear their signature "trumpet synth arpeggio", or when they hit certain chords,it's unmistakingly BoClike, right now I'm listening to "All Reasons Depart"and while being a whole different song, for me it's virtually the same as "Rue the whirl" conceptually>Mad how brains can interpret things so differentlyit really is! and thats why I like discussing tunes
>>130463651>im pretending to insult you but really itemising my affection for you liking the group I like
They would have been better off making 19 remixes of Trapped
So like the rest of their catalogue? BoC has always been braindead slop for people who love the smell of their own farts and hide behind the guise of "nostalgia" and "hidden meanings" to make the music to be more than it is. Meanwhile, you have artists like Squarepusher, Aphex Twin or Burial that have modern appeal, pushed the sound of electronic music AND also evolved over time that completely mog BoC.
>>130466311tard Burial owes his existence to one random BoC off cut lmao
Contrarian thread
>>130463122Listening now. Not terrible, but pretty boring so far. The melodies don't stick and some of the samples are annoying. I would have just preferred if they released the soundboard recordings of their live performances.
BoC and Squarepusher and Aphex Twin are all equal :)
>>130463651Not an argument, nigger zoomer.
>>130466311you really havent said much, just using buzzwords and not giving any actual technical critique, or anything that could be considered a music-adjacent discourse>Aphex twincollapse was Ok, but still incredibly richard d james coded and instantly recognizable
Continuing my listen and the track Naraka is giving me some hope for the rest of the album
>>130463315This, but unironically
>>130466379I prefer Pilotredsun and Mister Sauceman to these
>>130463122>It's midLiterally describes the band
>>130466311Nice buzzword salad. Maybe one day you'll grow up and learn how to form real opinions.
>>130466593>band>don't play instrumentslol?
dude hare krishna lmao
>>130463122BoC delivered the doomerkino we deserved, will The Avalanches deliver the hopeslop we want?
It's not even mid, it just plain sucks. I was baited by Tape 5 being good and got maybe 2-3 more decent tracks from the album.
I think that’s wonderful
I thought it was mid. That it sounded a bit like generic boc music, a self parody of sorts. It also sounded... off. Then I realized I had downloaded a fake version off of soulseek. FUCKING CUNTS FUCK YOU!!...the real album's not bad in my opinion. "mid" is too damning, the sound design is phenomenal as always, it sounds quite different from their previous records so it's definitely not lazy or uninspired. I'd say it's average in boc's catalog, but boc is awesome so that's meant as praise.>>130465048Have you considered forming an opinion by listening to the music as opposed to coming up with some conceptual box to put it into based on the audience you imagine it having in your head? But sure, boc is "entry level" ambient background music, however it's also very much music that you only learn to truly appreciate with time. The tourist likes it, the patrician likes it, it's truly anti-midwit.
Now that the dust is settled, I wonder if the brothers knew this was their best album while they were making it. I wish I could see their faces the moment they realized it was an 11/10
>>130465055>>130466057embarassingly garbage take, you can call this "uninspired" if you want but to call this preset-tier sound design just reveals how shit your hearing is, you clearly never ever tried producing music>>130466085I don't think that it makes sense to raise expectations with time when it comes to music. I would love to hear some new mbv/kevin shields music, and I don't expect or demand it to be a revolutionary masterpiece even if a lot of time's passed. For most (other) bands I would actually pessimistically assume that a comeback after ten years would only bring stale music>>130466361>melodies don't stickSort of agree for now>samples are annoyingSounds like you got filtered. By boc of all things>>130466593Your brain is mid, I wouldn't care about your opinion even if somehow magically you were able to string more than five words together coherently
>>130467135>11/10Not for a single second does anything on INFERNO touch Boards of Canada’s discography from 1995-2005. Not one beat. Not one melody. Not one sonic texture.I’d go so far as to say: it’s not even fit to lick THE CAMPFIRE HEADPHASE’s balls.Drink this.
>>130467133>Have you considered forming an opinion by listening to the music as opposed to coming up with some conceptual box to put it into based on the audience you imagine it having in your head?I have. I started listening to it and was about 12 minutes in when I was completely turned off by the use of sampling. It was too cheesy for my taste but obviously that's completely subjective so I understand anyone not agreeing with that. Been listening to other new music so I don't have much reason to force myself through the entire album atm
>>130467180>would love to hear some new mbv/kevin shields music, and I don't expect or demand it to be a revolutionary masterpiece even if a lot of time's passedAt least he tried to do something different on MBV…. it sounded like LOVELESS and it didn’t, and you can hear MBV’s heavy influence even today on bands like Full Body 2 and They Are Gutting A Body Of Water. INFERNO? Do you really think if BoC followed MUSIC HAS THE RIGHT TO CHILDREN with INFERNO they wouldn’t have been absolutely fucking pilloried by both fans and critics? There’s a song called ‘Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan’ ffs…. “self parodic” doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface.
>>130467217>NOOOO NEW THING CAN'T BE BETTER THAN OLD
>>130467374Lol gotteem
The problem is that I can't bring myself away from the fact that I'm listening to a new Boards of Canada album. It's like making love to a beautiful woman where you can't get out of your head that you are, in fact, kissing a beautiful woman.I wouldn't say it's any different to previous albums. A lot of tracks on their albums were mid and it's more about listening to them when you're chilling out just as you did in 2009 - Naraka is a banger.
>>130467425I’m gonna level w u my guy. I’ve never listened to several boc songs from any boc album multiple times in a row. Nothin mid about inferno
It's a top 3 album of theirs honestly. Better than Campfire Headphase. It feels like Tomorrow's Geogaddi. Kino.
This has some of their most beautiful and engrossing tracks ever. It's also a grower for sure with some of the more subtle tracks.
>>130467425Yeah, i can totally see that. it will always be special because of this, and I can hear and see the similaritiesits a little self referencial, but that's ok.the thing is, it definitely feels like a "final" album in their discography, realistically speaking I don't see BoC publishing another album in 13+ years.so on one hand its a wonderful experience, on the other..I don't know, it's a little less "in your face" and more introspective overall, and it's okay if its not a revolutionary masterpiece; but there's a couple of tracks where I agree with other anons that said it's a little self-deprecatory and auto referential. it also sounds a lot more polished and cleaner, and the mixing is pretty heavy, low lows and hi highs , every sound is crisp and crystal clear
>>130463315I grew out of my nihilism phase when I was 15. You're either mentally retarded or are too young to be posting here.
>>130467237If it doesn't sound like your cup of tea, then skipping it is fair. It's just a decent boc album, not mindblowing if you've heard any boc before. Anyway, if you've found any music recently that you think is underrated and that someone who enjoys boc might like, I'd be interested in it.>>130467289I'm more interested in the music than track titles, but I don't see any problem with either. Earlier albums are inevitably more influential for any band, you wouldn't argue mbv is comparable to loveless or isn't anything in terms of influence.>>130467483Seems like I'm one of few who has a very high opinion of campfire headphase.
>>130468080I love Campfire Headphase I just feel like this one is a more complete package I guess.
>>130466311BOC is miles better than Squarepusher which is not good
>>130463122So it's been over since their debut, then? BoC is the very definition of middling.
>>130468080>Anyway, if you've found any music recently that you think is underrated and that someone who enjoys boc might like, I'd be interested in it.I have no idea whether boc enjoyers would like any of the stuff i'm interested in or not but no reason not to give it a try at the very least like you were saying before. At the very least I think this first track starts off very boc coded so that might click with you, definitely goes somewhere more danceable though.https://youtu.be/74Saqvu3Jbghttps://youtu.be/Rq7m7xS2oTUhttps://youtu.be/KCNVwoFVOH0
>>130464162>Amo Bishop Rodenhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=PaIr8m6f-GE>proto-dubstepwtf are you talking about nigga??
Age of Capricorn at 2:00 is One More Robot by THe Flaming Lips
>>130468269Not bad for stuff that's got 100 views. I like the second track you posted
MAYBE some anon said this already, "Acts Of Magic" synth/drum sounds like Suicide "Ghost Rider", appropriately collecting the dust off of or spreading from Nakara. It's cathartic leaning into the Suicide ref, MAYBE that's just me picking it up
>>130463122The first 80% is a drag (albeit sounds like BoC). The last several pieces are great.
>>130467374not an argument + ad hominem basedjack….didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, little bro! go cry about it in your room.
>>130467425>/mu/tard>“…making love to a beautiful woman”pick one
>>130468119>BOC is miles better than Squarepusherlmao
>>130471180Telling people to kill themselves isn't an argument either, you fucking stupid nigger.
>>130471241I wasn’t trying to make an argument, it’s a statement of absolute, unequivocal fact:>“Not for a single second does anything on INFERNO touch Boards of Canada’s discography from 1995-2005. Not one beat. Not one melody. Not one sonic texture.”It’s irrefutable.You having a Cat 5. Melty over it changes nothing. Cope.Rope.It makes no difference to me; enjoy listening to your downtempo IDM bullshit music, bitch boy.
Consider me Inferno’d because this album is a 10/10
>>130472070What fucking fact? That Twoism, MHTRTC and Geogaddi sound outdated as hell and that the new album blows them all out of the water? Then sure, I agree lmao. Keep seething over "facts", pajeet brownoid.
Inferno is truly impressive, what with considering this wait and the static vapidness of the current state of things. Certainly a breathe of fresh air, gets better with every listen. I haven't even put this thing on the turntable, just wav. files, so impatient, on $2 headphones bumping.
>>130472127>Twoism, MHTRTC and Geogaddi sound outdated as hell and that the new album blows them all out of the water
>>130472326>$2 headphonesmore like “$2.00 have been deposited in your account via Warp Records”
>>130472127Hating on all-time legendary albums that reshaped the entire paradigm of what electronic music could be for an entire generation of indie kids…. just die on the “Inferno” hill? An album that isn’t even TWENTY FOUR FUCKING HOURS OLD. Dude, actually? You’re a TikTokbrained SSRI’d out Zoomer retard. You weren’t there in 98. You weren’t there in 2002. You don’t have a fucking clue…. zero scholarship on the subject outside of your own facile, myopic worldview. Feel free to gas up mid with your faggot mutuals on RYM, but fucking spare the rest of us.
>>130472542You don’t need to be 45 or 50 years old to recognize that Inferno is the best BoC album. Pitchfork has even acknowledged it.
it's greatyou faggots will hate on anything
>>130463122Yeah it was pretty bad. This sound is just corny in 2026, it sounds like the loading music for pirated game keygens. They should have just stopped with Tomorrows Harvest
Best thing that’s happened to music in a long time. Boc have returned to behead nepobaby slop.
>>130472911>This sound is just corny in 2026, it sounds like the loading music for pirated game keygensThat's how hard we were psyoped by the hype: we're still talking about it nonetheless
>>130463611The chant is on the song Naraka, which is Hell.What did BoC mean by this?The song is also joyful.Are BoC channeling a vision of hindus going to Hell and chanting hare krishna as they perish? That's the vibe I get from this track
I haven't listened to it
>>130463315300000 years from now no one will know what music in general was. The point is to communicate.
>>130463399That's what happens when old people make music
>>130463611the immaculate atmosphere of "Tomorrow's Harvest"
>>130463611the Hare Krishna shit isn't meant to be spiritual. it's just another cult sample.Also the vocal chops in The Word Becomes Flesh are fucking great
>>130471180
I’ve actually not heard an album this good since Slipknot’s Iowa. Inferno is a master work.
Inferno, I don’t know if there’s a stronger singular word to describe 2026. Intense, chaotic, and dangerous a physical inferno feels like the absolute antithesis to Boards of Canada’s style, and yet they’ve found a way to combine all of those adjectives on their latest album - all without uprooting their entire artistic energy. Every negative feeling this record presents travels in its dark underbelly, with leading melodies not standing alone as unsettling, yet still leading forth a wider composition that is acutely aware of the unending dread that permeates popular discourse. What the duo understand so well, however, is that in order to have crushing dread, there needs to be an attempt at hope. Every song on this album has an item of warmth or brightness, a persistent melody, note or idea that tries to reach out beyond the murky depths and grab at the light. Whether the composition allows them to succeed or not depends on how each piece is feeling, but any victory is short-lived at worst and utterly pyrrhic at best.
better than Tomorrow's Harvestbetter than Campfire Headphaseit's Geogaddi 2 but with cleaner production and better organic instrumentationcope
He was right about BoC
>>130479052What was his take?
>>130479102>It's telling that like, from the beginning, Boards of Canada wanted to tell everybody they'd been a band since like 1986. Like, what are you talking about?! No you haven't. Twoism and Hi Scores don't even come out until like 1996.>Boards of Canada wanted to backdate themselves so badly, it was so embarrassing. I just hated that they were such a second-generation, follow-on thing, and I hated how corny their whole nature-movie shit was with Music Has the Right. I did love In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, I still think that's a great EP, but... oh yeah, if I unload the Mask 100 vinyl [puts out cigarette]. I didn't like Geogaddi at all. >I made this analogy before: Boards of Canada is to electronic music what Guided by Voices is to indie rock. It's the shit you got late. And you know I was sitting there with all these kids at Pitchfork, like, did you guys never hear Autechre's Basscadet EP before? Like, did you never hear Garbage? Anvil Vapre? Do you have Tri Repetae? Like, what the fuck, there's nothing new here! There's just watered-down bullshit!>Like, I can't fucking stand it! Even the song titles are such begging, corny, obvious shit, like "Turquoise Hexagon Sun"? Get the fuck out of here! Jesus Christ, like take the pictures out of your chemistry set book and that's your fucking branding. It's just sickeningly basic shit.https://youtu.be/DLKeEkeelmc?t=2256
>>130481692 Like they were the first band ever to have recorded before their official debut, what a mewling cunt to be upset about that. Punch this guy in the coccyx if you see him please yanks
>>130481692who the fuck is this and why do i care about the opinion of someone who isnt ready to start his own video
>>130481692either BOC is good or bad, but no ones gives a shit about what he's talking about here
>>130482390Them pretending like their teenage garage band noodling counts as the start of their career really is tryhard and pousery though. That I can tell, nobody wrote about BoC until they released on Skam in '96. All the references to their 80s demos come from their personal website from 2001 which just screams that they fabricated those demos to make them seem more established than they actually are. I don't doubt that they were active a few years before their debut, but unless they performed in public or got written about at the time, their 1986-1994 output is all bullshit self-mythologizing
I just realized what BoC Infeno is, its to them what LCD Soundsystems American Dream is, its an album that came out after a big hiatus that is serviceable but really nothing that impactful
>>130484347I guess you’re talking about a different band. Inferno just saved music.
>>130472924Based They have become Boards of Canada …the destroyers of industry plants Fuck geese
U S A M AM DOUBLE A U SU RM A B U SMABUS!
>>130482578Chris "Start listening to Swirlies" Ott>why do i care about the opinion of someone who isnt ready to start his own videoIt's a rip of a livestream he did a few years ago, the relevant bit starts at 37:36
>>130463122it's brilliant, a great chill record for these tumultuous times.
>>130463122This album is growing on me. It noticeably feels like it’s missing something, namely marcus. The tracks develop predictably vertically but lack complexity & payoff. Thematically the album is solid & each track is grounded in a solid idea. At best i might end up liking it better than TH or TCH, but it doesn’t achieve the highs of MHTRTC or Geogaddi.
>>130481692>“I did love In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, I still think that's a great EP”He always does this lmao…. but, I have to admire is unrelenting commitment to the bit; truly the last of a dying breed.Ott, “Mutual Skies”, whatever tf you’re going by these days… if you’re seeing this — the world yearns for your take on Chaotic Good’s bot marketing and Pitchfork pay walling their review scores.Hurry up!!
>>130481692Clocked those homos
>>130467217>Not for a single second does anything on INFERNO touch Boards of Canada’s discography from 1995-2005. Not one beat. Not one melody. Not one sonic texture.What kind of dishonest and bait-like cope is this?there's several moments in this album I could pinpoint exactly and say "This is quintessential BoC"
