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

I think it=E2=80=99s inevitable after all these years.=20

And in this sense it could somewhat paradoxically amount to a nostalgic take=
 on the original nostalgia.

Whether this is good or bad I don=E2=80=99t know - I suppose the album will t=
ell (so I am really looking forward to it!)

> On 8 May 2026, at 01:08, kent williams <[email protected]> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFThey return to their theme of apocalyptic religion with a Vocoded=

> essay on the subject of nothingness and transcendence.
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> I don't know if they wrote it or if it's from something.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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