{"id":38358,"date":"2026-05-09T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38358\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:12:07","slug":"boards-of-canada-release-trippy-double-a-side-introit-and-prophecy-at-1420-mhz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38358\/","title":{"rendered":"Boards Of Canada release trippy double A-side ‘ ‘Introit’ and ‘Prophecy At 1420 MHz’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boards Of Canada<\/a> have released the first music from their comeback album \u2018Inferno\u2019 \u2013 check out \u2018Introit\u2019 and \u2018Prophecy At 1420 MHz\u2019 below.<\/p>\n

The Scottish electronic duo\u00a0are\u00a0preparing to release their fifth studio album on May 29 via Warp, an 18-track follow-up to 2013\u2019s \u2018Tomorrow\u2019s Harvest<\/a>\u2019. It is being released in multiple physical formats, as well\u00a0as on\u00a0digital, and you can pre-order\/pre-save\u00a0your copy\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, they have shared the record\u2019s opening two tracks, \u2018Introit\u2019 and \u2018Prophecy At 1420 MHz\u2019. The former acts as a mysterious prelude, with spectral, retro-futurist scrambling synths, while the latter is a hypnotic, slowly-building and mildly ominous head-nodder named after the deep space frequency used in the search for extra-terrestrial life, with muffled, mutated vocals seemingly emerging from the static.<\/p>\n

Check out the video for the two tracks, directed by Robert Beatty, here:<\/p>\n

News of BoC\u2019s return emerged by way of a poster campaign featuring designs similar to the artwork of their classic 1998 debut album \u2018Music Has The Right To Children\u2019, spotted by fans around London, New York, California, and Shibuya.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0band\u00a0have displayed brief signs of activity in the 13 years since their last album came out, in the form of random remixes, archival reissues, and an NTS DJ mix.<\/p>\n

Another sign of life came when a Boards of Canada fan worked out that a website once used to plant clues to their activity had been revived with the following message: \u201cnobody home\u2026\u201d and then a repetition of that phrase in Morse code \u2013 \u201d \/\/\/ -. \u2014 -\u2026 \u2014 -.. -.\u2013 \/ \u2026. \u2014 \u2014 . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-\u201c.<\/p>\n

Fans\u00a0also began\u00a0reporting\u00a0online\u00a0that they had been receiving VHS tapes bearing Boards of Canada\u2019s hexagon-mesh logo. According to archivist page\u00a0BoC Pages<\/a>, the tapes contained audio<\/a>\u00a0for an ad for a Christian bible school magazine that stopped publishing in 1991.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tomorrow\u2019s Harvest scored four stars in an\u00a0NME\u00a0review in 2013, which described the band as the \u201canti-Daft Punk<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

It added: \u201cWhile the Parisian robot duo\u2019s \u2018Random Access Memories\u2019 is full of sunshine, light and high-profile collaborations, \u2018Tomorrow\u2019s Harvest\u2019 is a dark, often uncomfortable affair, more nuclear winter than summer anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boards Of Canada have released the first music from their comeback album \u2018Inferno\u2019 \u2013 check out \u2018Introit\u2019 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,8082],"class_list":["post-38358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-electronic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}