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The Last Dance Edition.
----- INFERNO (LP5)
OUT NOW FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD.
>YOUTUBE OFFICIAL FULL ALBUM PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm67aHmN2wo&list=OLAK5uy_lljmZxsklD_9b kwH1M08MpA5SqAFuMJI8
----- REVIEWS
Positive:
>musicOMH
5/5
>The Herald
5/5
>Under the Radar
9/10
>Northern Transmissions
9/10
>Beats Per Minute
9/10
>Clash
9/10
>Still Listening
9/10
>Uncut
9/10
>Pitchfork
8.6/10
>No Ripcord
8/10
>AllMusic
8/10
>Exclaim
8/10
>Mojo
4/5
>The Skinny
4/5
>Paste
7.5/10
>Far Out Magazine
7/10
>Resident Advisor
Recommends
>DJ Mag
Recommends
Negative:
>The Guardian
2/5
>Financial Times
2/5
>The Arts Desk
2/5
Share more reviews when they come out.
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>>130499111
You're a Krishna Harry
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Listening for the first time rn. Started off pretty strong - later that fizzled, started getting a bit boring. Oh well, good background music nonetheless. BoC were always good in that regard. Campire Headphase is my fav album by them by the way, Inferno comes in 2nd or 3rd behind MHTRTC now...
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>>130499561
That's how I feel about You Retreat in Time and Space, I more appreciate it from a thematic point than the actual music itself. Maybe that's cause TCH is my most played BoC album and it kind of just feels like an alright take on a TCH song. Don't get me wrong, it's very pretty and I love the first half, 2nd half is just retreading old ground. Again thematically that's cool, it's a deliberate escape into the comfort of the past before being snagged back to reality, but as a song it doesn't do a ton for me.
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>>130499702
you could at least try to make your samefagging less obvious
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>>130499581
>ft. Jamie XX
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I wish I discovered them in the early 00s instead of being late to the party. It's cool reading old interviews and articles from around the time of Geogaddi and how people recognized already back then what an influence they had on the music world
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Unless we get an interview this week I think it's a safe bet we're not getting any at all.
TH dropped June 4th (a tuesday) and interviews a couple of days after that. It is now the week after Inferno dropped so...
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>>130499581
Avalanches are absolute shite now. And I say this as a huge fan of SILY. At least BoC have retained some of their integrity by refusing to whore themselves out to big commercial artists.
>lofi hiphop beats
You should write for the guardian with such dated references.
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>>130500215
Inferno is literally their most explicit album, what more needs to be said?
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So what's the deal with the whole MBI prelude thingy people heard at the listening parties? It seems like it directly coincides with the bonus track on the flexidisk people received, or that it hints at the themes of a follow up EP or something. Am I thinking too deeply about it? The colder blue/green color palette seems like such an intentional contrast from the rest of the imagery on Inferno
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>>130502506
it has been special anon. Like this album probably will be, it was an amazing flourish for the board harkening back to better times, pretty cool we kept the threads going for over a month, setting its own huge fucking statement amongst the dreck that is the current music scene/this board.
I'd say I'd be back for the avalanches but no seems to give a fuck this time lol. Maybe see you when the next /mucore/ band bring something else out after years and years.
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>>130502506
It was fun while it lasted. And hey the album turned out great.
I was here when OPN's Tranquilizer dropped last year and that was even more depressing, remembering that this board once got the video premier for an R+7 single, and then 10 years later there was just like 4 people here to talk about his new album.
But this was fun. See you again in 25 years.
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out of all the stuff on the album that last half of The Process got me in the feels the most. I to I think it is signifying a moment of clairty in life where you able to find a way transcend all the shit the world throws at you and compartmentalise that endless morass to fully prioritse the things that truly matter. those idle yet serene moments with family is what truly matters in life, that its what days are for. I don't know if I'll ever be able to get into that headspace bros
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>>130502604
It was a special run. The waiting and listening room generals for Inferno actually lasted over 6 weeks and there were more than 25 of them. All of them hit bump limit. It's quite obvious why Inferno generated so much hype. When you have a beloved band that is very private and mysterious, who haven't dropped an album for 13 years, and they start a cryptic promo campaign, yeah that's gonna generate a shit ton of hype.
Honestly, next year, it will be 13 years since Aphex's last album, Syro. Just like Inferno, 13 years. I think if Aphex and Warp start some sort of cryptic promo campaign like they did for Inferno, the same thing will happen. Fingers crossed we get something from Aphex soon.
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>>130502738
thank you for the company you beautiful bastards and remember: sometime in the future, you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so-called obscenity case. it would be wise to remember that the same people who'd stop you from listening to boards of canada may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program. if you could be told of what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. defend your constitutionally protected rights. no one else will do it for you. thank you
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These have been good threads, though I’ve had to be careful not to allow my profound respect for everything everyone posts here impact my perception of the album before I listened to it myself. Such a negative place these days. Seemingly for no reason, either.
The album is incredible. I was worried leading up to it, but I have been duly chastened.
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>>130502921
to not be a tourist on this board currently it seems like you have to either a kpop fan, a poptimist faggot, a metal dork, or that beatles boyband schizo. You stay playing in the shitmine with your terrible opinions my man
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>>130503025
gotta admit u got me there
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>>130499303
where tf mike ORANGE edition
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>>130503188
There's a strong theme of death and anger at death I think in this album. There's an arc with death, rebirth, and faith and trying to find meaning.
In that is faith as a cope, anger at God, rage at having someone snatched from you, nihilism and then overcoming nihilism, grief, acceptance.
I need a few more months to ruminate on my ideas. I don't think I'm phrasing them well, but that's the direction my thoughts are heading.
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>>130503087
this should be the alternative cover
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>>130499083
Just listened to the whole thing for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised.
>fav track
probably deep time or you retreat
>least fav track
father and son, the vocal samples kinda remind me of negativland
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God damnit. Twoism CD is back in stock on bandcamp right after I ordered all the stuff I don't already have. Might have to pick it up on discogs cause i'm not paying intl shipping again. I'd buy it if they had the new nuclear family tee available but I think it's a bleep exclusive
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Uninspiring and super mid slop. It is as if someone asked AI to compose a new album for Boards of Canada and it just regurgitateted the most cliché BOC sounding slop you could imagine. Geogaddi and MHTRTC were so much better
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>>130505833
yeah an AI would really bring up fucking sitars, hare krishna chants, fucking arena americanada, and samples that hit the beat if you prompted it to make a cliche BOC album. you absolute gaping moron.
>it it it sounds like heckin ai
midwit take. well not event that actually
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holy fuck bros! Number 2 in the UK chart update behind McCartney. It'll probably go lower as other acts overtake it by streaming figures, but goes to show the power of buying physical albums.
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/paul-mccartney-the-boys-of-d ungeon-lane-number-1-album-update/
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>>130505833
Using terms like “mid” and “slop” are also cliches and say nothing about the actual musical content. I also prefer Music and Geodaddi, but even those took time for me to fully appreciate. Guess I’m not dumb enough to make a snap judgment not even a week after the release.
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>>130506798
Honestly the issue isn’t with the chanting itself, it’s that it supplants that incredible main synth line to do nothing but repeat until the track just kind of peters out. I get that chanting isn’t really supposed to have “development” but the sample feels underutilised given the wild vocal processing elsewhere on the record.
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+classic BOC DNA injected into a cyberpunk (solarpunk?) synthwave pastiche
+hi fidelity production
+great sample selection and vocal processing
+cinematic sense of pacing, cohesion and atmosphere
+surprising sense of lightness and humour for an album marketed as being serious and intense
-Boc at their most thematically explicit - loses the abstraction and enigma of their earlier works in favour of accessibility
-some sounds feel generic or underdeveloped
-borders on being cheesy and heavy-handed at times
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>>130507026
Nah, I think an album like this needs to have maxed-out high resolution. It wouldn’t make sense for it to be this big, cinematic panorama if all the sounds were obscured by analog grain and tape warp. This might be the most meticulously layered BOC album yet - you wouldn’t be able to pick out so many different textures in the mix if you couldn’t hear them clearly.
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>>130499083
What are we all thinking of the bonus track?
https://youtu.be/6dj0XDkPNMg
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>>130507759 Really good. Haunting stuff. The voice in the original distorted tape says "Now with your first issue, you'll receive the exclusive flexi-hexidisc, a hexagon of sound. Six voices and music to guide your path. Subscribe today, discover the New Month's journey. Each issue brings insight into devotion and a unique exodus of voices and music to guide your path." which makes it sound like more might be coming yet
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Listened to it after a day of hiatus and daily stuff.
I understand now. Naraka is so perfect, and so well fit to the album. I got it's purpose and it's so accurate.
Bros it's so good, it just comes up all of a sudden, literally shits in the middle of the process, drops a big one, and leaves the rest of the album stinking.
It's beautiful.
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>>130507942
This was also the sample used in the VHS tape, I didn't think the Hexi Disc would actually be real.
This could be a far reach, but picrel was also in the VHS. The lit up ones are their previous LPs, the half lit up one is Inferno (complete, but not released) and the other two dark ones are future releases.
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So does this mean more flexi discs? is this the first tease of what will become an EP eventually?
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Deep Time into All Reason Departs is hilarious, Deep Time is probably their most introspective song ever, and it perfectly transitions into All Reason Departs which has a robot ghost voice going "THE GREAT WAR MUST BE FOUGHT"
Mike definitely had fun making this. He's embracing the horror slock side that they've only kind of toyed with in the past
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>>130508238
And MHTRTC is their worst album.
>>130508165
Weird how different people interpret the album. It all sounds deadly serious to me.
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The hare krishna chant on Naraka is really filtering me every time. It's the most fucked up artistic choice on this album. Naraka pulls you in hard, then you start grooving. You're feeling it, then those inverted bass hits come, and you're like oh shit this is getting dark. Suddenly, you're jorking it slow and steady, then the first phrase hits again with some added bits, and you're about to increase your goon, then it happens. Hare Krishna. You make a weird face and you keep trying to goon, but your penis is deflating. You keep grooving but it just feels forced. "This isn't what I wanted," you tell yourself.
Then it's over.
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OPN's tranq album is amazing. I completely love it. I went to the concert he did in Brooklyn with the freaky visuals and what not.
For some reason The Process track on Inferno makes me think I'm listening to OPN.
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Alright, The album arrangement seems wrong to me.
The hexi track should have been in place of Father and Son and Father and Son the bonus track instead. Naraka should be a standalone single release apart from the album. It literally causes all this whole schism because it doesn't fit into anything.
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>>130507942
Also interesting is that it only says music70 on there, not Warp. Maybe a more experimental album will be released just on their own label - maybe even as Hell Interface or something. And/or maybe with samples that Warp doesn’t want to clear.
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Funny how both sides can be so wrong and yet so right at the same time. I don’t think the album has any explicit commentary on religion at all, but listeners love to project onto what are essentially ambiguous aesthetic themes and iconographic motifs that can’t be reduced to religion=good/bad.
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>>130507759
>samples a McDonald’s training video from 1972
>label claims to be recorded in 1983
>copyright attributed not to BOC or Warp, but to “MBI”
>MBI is either a reference to the Moody Bible Institute or the “Mass Behavioural Initiative” (a name heard in the opening audio of the Inferno listening sessions) whatever this thing is, it’s certainly a puzzle. The “ARG” for Inferno (if you can even call it that) was incredibly lacklustre compared to the one for TH, so it would be good if there were further strange rabbit holes to explore.
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>>130509222
>christcuck!
Look who cares again.
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>>130509153
Except the father is literally asking the son to bring the bible home with him. It’s not a total renunciation of religion, only its dogmatic and self-destructive tendencies.
Let me ask you this- do you think the chanting vocals on Nakara are poking fun at new-age spirituality, or do you think (given its relatively unaltered processing compared to F&S) is treated with a level of respect and dignity?
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>>130509316
The chants are there because they sound cool which is an implicit level of respect, what they truly mean in the abstract doesn't really matter.
Christniggery doesn't really get any respect in the album because there's nothing cool to sample, the religion is a black hole of aesthetics and creativity. You can hear a hindu chant and immediately associate it with the religion but what the hell are you gonna sample from christians? Especially the worst goylem american types.
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>>130509316
I feel like the idea is contrast destructive lunacy with neutral lunacy, Hindus being neutral. Notice how the monotheistic religions are the most fucked up and cause the most pain to normal people.
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>what they truly mean in the abstract doesn't really matter.
Agreed, but that applies to their supposed critiques of Christianity as well. It’s nowhere near as explicit as you’re making it out to be, I think you’re projecting personal biases into your listening experience more than you realise.
>Christniggery doesn't really get any respect in the album because there's nothing cool to sample
Age of Capricorn says otherwise. Even if it is critiquing something about Christianity (a claim I wouldn’t make so definitively), it still sounds “cool”.
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>the religion is a black hole of aesthetics and creativity
You're past beyond the point of retardness right now.
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You make a good point, I think it also aplies to the machine god we hear on Prophecy. I’m still not entirely convinced tho, it’s clear that boc’s interest in religion and spirituality goes beyond simple good/bad judgements, there’s a level of engagement with the subject matter that can only come from a place of deep respect and contemplation of these traditions. It’s not just Dawkins-tier cringe tirades against spaghetti monsters
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>>130509153
That interview is in a documentary about The Children of God, a pedo Christian sect from the 60's that doesn't represent Christianity as a whole. The message is obviously that religion can be appropriated by individuals and developed into dangerous cults and sects.
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>>130509644
That can be said about any belief system, it's an empty critique that means nothing. Any system can enable abuse if it is misappropriated enough. The danger lies in the fundamentalism o following flawed cult leaders like they're infallible authorities for God's word. It's not difficult that understand.
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>>130509990
It means everything actually, it means mythological belief systems are inherently corrupt mafias because the structure itself promotes corruption. In the US there are entire states ran by christian mafias.
You can try to dodge and dilute but it'll always be a fact.
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>>130509153
both people in the interview are religious
the contrast is between someone falling victim to a cult that was weaponizing religion to harm people and the other a "regular" religious person who is trying to save their son from a cult
the contrast isnt showing all religion is goofy, but that religion is a dangerous tool used to control and harm people
you see it in age of capricorn too, where religion is reinterpreted to such as degree people made up conspiracy theories about politicians being an "antichrist"
anyone who is old enough to remember facebook c. the 2000s can probably remember all the "obama is the antichrist" boomer edits, which came from hogue
who tried to suggest the "antichrist" from nostradamus mabus prediction was either obama or osama
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Wtf did they mean by this bros? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5TkcMMzSg0
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>>130510337
Didn't they post this back in 2020 or something? Their timelines are weird. It's rare they post anything at all so when they do you feel it must be intentional.
Inferno sounds like Hell Interface. Very 80s in tone and tempo. I wonder if they originally wanted to release it under that moniker or simply conjure the HI ethos. Given the fact there will never be a new BoC interview, I guess we'll never know.
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>>130510294
Yeah because 4chan, especially /mu/, is the perfect place for high tier reason vs. faith debates against edgy zoomers who barely have lived life outside of school and the internet. Atheism doesn't exist. Everyone worships something. If you don't think you adhere to a "system" you do and just don't know it yet.
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>>130511041
>his cretinous cult is critiqued
>well guess what YOU'RE THE CULTIST HERE!
lel, the most ironic part is that you can only seem to strawman others by saying they must be as cultlike and irrational as you, you yourself are framing it as a bad thing but your cult must be the right one
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>>130509038
>Naraka should be a standalone single release apart from the album. It literally causes all this whole schism because it doesn't fit into anything.
I almost wonder if it's a hero's journey type thing. Descended into hell and whatnot.
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Made the backrooms pilgrimage, word becomes flesh is so groovy and I even had the whole theater to myself for a mini listening party
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Both that and father and son are obvious callbacks to telephasic workshop
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