LP5 - Inferno

[Nikanj00101]

Finally also was able to get my order through Bleep, just in case ordered earlier via bandcamp as well... I will find a worthy friend to gift the extra red vinyl version for a birthday or xmas

[meaty]

Bleep preorder successful! I had to wait in the virtual queue 6 minutes.

[jcnporter]

I'm actually hoping this is a global warming overshoot post-societal breakdown concept album.

[Macfuk]

'I Saw Through Platonia' has to be a reference to the physicist Julian Barbour - who has fairly radical views on the nature of time, and questions whether it exists at all.

Loving the track titles

[Twoist]

Consequence of Sound suggest Tape 05 isn't from Inferno. Interesting.

[mr3]

That Cloudflare treatment with functioning order queues, pleasant surprise!

[Cupz]

Got spec on bleep. Yaaaay!

[mr3]

Got spec on bleep. Yaaaay!

you did it, awesome!

[jcnporter]

Consequence of Sound suggest Tape 05 isn't from Inferno. Interesting.

I read that as them looking at the tracklist and not seeing Tape 05 on it. Could be there under another name?

[desfax]

Consequence of Sound suggest Tape 05 isn't from Inferno. Interesting.

I read that as them looking at the tracklist and not seeing Tape 05 on it. Could be there under another name?

I would guess Tape 05 is most likely a fragment or sample from one of the tracks on here. I think it's unlikely to be a standalone song.

As an aside, the tracklist names are kind of amusing, feels a bit like Mogwai song titles in some places IMO. I'll probably get some grief for that.

[sowhereareyouliving?]

Petition to prepend "Disco"?

[drixlin]

The morning I get approval for my birthday week vacation I put in for, Boards opens pre-orders and I'm pretty sure that it's going to show up literally on my birthday (first day of my vacation).

EVERYTHING'S COMING UP MILHOUSE TODAY

[sowhereareyouliving?]

Hey, this is my first post here, I'm super excited for the new LP and found through this site that there will be planned listening events, a possible music video and more!

How about a listening party in Aleister Crowley's old haunt outside Lisbon?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boca-do-inferno

https://www.cascais-portugal.com/Attrac ... scais.html

[soupbandit]

So happy with you all
My bleep order finally went through!

[Cupz]

also got shirt and cap and now Im broke but well worth it

[Twoist]

It's just been pointed out to me that Inferno and the Backrooms movie both release on the same day. That's my May 29th sorted then.

[babylulu]

so happy! welcome to the world, Inferno

[valleaux]

What do we think of the family logo thing on the main website? https://boardsofcanada.com/

IMO they look a bit weird, their heads are too big. And they're facing away. And there's 4 kids? Huge family by today's standards

To me it doesn't look like a family, but rather a timeline of two figures (male and female) growing up.

The outlines of the two central figures look like teenagers, not adults, but that's just a guess.

They just seem intentionally self-similar compared to their other "family" logos/icons, where the adults and children are clearly delineated.

I agree, I immediately thought of the figures outline on side six/Magic Window on the Geogaddi vinyl, which does clearly seem to indicate a nuclear family. The Magic Window family is also posed much more naturally, while the figures on the website are more static, which really makes it look like some kind of stages of life diagram.

Another interpretation I was thinking is that maybe the implication is that these different ages of the people exist together at the same time, either figuratively or literally. That is, it is not showing the passage of time, but rather how one's childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are always a part of the same person for their entire life. Or more literally, imagine if you had a time machine and went back to meet your younger self. Nostalgia and childhood are obviously huge motifs for BoC, so I could certainly see the intent being a message about remembering yourself from the past or keeping in touch with your inner child. I have a gut feeling that this album will be quite dark and similar to Geogaddi and Tomorrow's Harvest tonally, so maybe there is also the inverse meaning--being forced to grow up too fast.

Lots of room for interpretation!

[Den]

Also don't own a creditcard. Guess I'm not getting a red one. Anyone know where I can preorder with iDEAL?

Respect.

[fujee]

Nabbed a deluxe on Bandcamp. I love everything I'm seeing right now, tracklist, artwork, themes. It's a beauty.