Is Boards of Canada about to finish its 13-year-long hibernation? If a cryptic poster run by Warp Records is something to go by, possibly.
The beloved British unbiased label dropped a bombshell for BoC’s long-suffering fanbase, with a string of puzzling pictures that increase extra questions than supply solutions.
The posters, that are captured in a submit shared on Warp’s official social channels, with out remark, depict zombified kids, a picture that ties in with the paintings for BoC’s magnum opus from 1998, Music Has The Right to Children. And every picture is stamped with a model that invokes the digital act’s Hexagon Sun emblem.
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The easter eggs don’t finish there. New York and London cellphone numbers might be seen among the many pictures, the sting of a “City of Westminster” avenue signal is seen in a single, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame might be noticed on one other.
What all of it means, solely time will inform.
Boards of Canada is the Scottish digital music duo of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin, a universe-building pair that’s each enigmatic, secretive and adored by connoisseurs of minimal digital music.
The siblings hardly ever give interviews and have carried out solely a small handful of reside reveals, principally within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. Their fourth and most up-to-date album launch was 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest. That assortment peaked at No. 7 within the U.Okay., for his or her first high 10 entry, and at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, their first look on the all-genres U.S. albums chart, and a high 40 debut on Australia’s ARIA Chart. That launch, too, loved a subtle promotional push with a string of clues drip-fed for followers to gobble up.
In 2019, a comeback of kinds with “XYZ,” a previously-unreleased tune from their Peel Session of July 1998, which appeared on a brand new Warp Records thirtieth anniversary bundle, WXAXRXP Sessions.
BoC’s affect, nevertheless, can’t be measured in hits, or streams.
Warp’s teaser may allude to a Record Store Day unique, showing simply days out from the annual celebration of vinyl file shops. BoC’s most up-to-date Instagram submit dropped 34 weeks in the past, saying the 30 years anniversary of their first publicly-available vinyl mini album Twoism and a brand new batch accessible on wax.
