Boards of Canada - Teaser tracks Introit/Prophecy at 1420hz

https://youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo?si=zl43p1J6eRmmKPHG (Entroit)
https://youtu.be/oVLbPMFr1cE?si=fRrrxNe8Cla_wJeI (just Prophecy)
Boards Of Canada are nothing if not consistent. The video is 4/3 and
it looks like it was either dubbed to VHS and re-digitzed.

They return to their theme of apocalyptic religion with a Vocoded
essay on the subject of nothingness and transcendence.

I don't know if they wrote it or if it's from something.

The music is a pastiche of sounds from the pass, in this case there's
a real frisson of 1980s industrial music, like Caberet Voltaire. And
that doomy chorus guitar sounds like they borrowed it from Cocteau
Twins.

It's more straightforward than many of their old tracks. There isn't
as much subliminal masking. But every drum hit, guitar line and synth
part bristles with conscious intention.  Everything is placed in
perfect relation to everything else.

About 2:18 in "Prophecy" there short interlude of drums, string synth
and guitar (or synth? Hard to tel) plays a spare funk pattern, like
Nile Rodgers riffing, but it's atonal, dissonant relative to the key
of the drone bass. They take something familiar and making it strange.

I have a theory about musical intention: The person making music has
ideas they're implementing.  They may be complicated ideas, not
directly audible in the music, but there's a system and intention
behind the raw audio hitting your ears. Listeners intuitively
recognize the system in the music, even if it's not as plain as 12 bar
blues.  A hidden structure still feels like structure, giving the
music a visceral meaning.

So with BOC, they may have started out messing around with machines
and seeing what comes out, but everything they do now is
hyper-detailed, hyper-intentional. Every surprising sound, every
unidentifiable echoey sound that only happens once, was put there for
a purpose.

What they do is fun for them, and fun as fan service. I'm interested
in what people not so enmeshed with this music think of it.  I think
it's quality - everything they do is quality - but sometimes the
attention that goes into every last, wobbly detail turns into
overthinking.

In the end what I'm trying to say is that I wish they fooled around
and tried goofy shit more. They've got the taste to pick out just the
good parts.  But sometimes the feeling like they're arranging a
diorama of "The Garden of Early Delights" on a ping pong table in
their attic, moving little bits about obsessively.