GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC PART III

[Aesthetics]

Yeah, why not!? A bit early if you ask me, but since the other one is no longer relevant and there’s a demand for a part 3, here it is.

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[outhudd]

Release prediction: 2037.

[Altruizine]

Mike said he could crank out a new album every week if he didn't have responsibilities. They've mentioned having children but technically they could be grown up now or at least soon. We might get new releases faster.

Not that I care. I've said this in the past, people shouldn't obsess over waiting for anything. Carpe diem motherfuckers

[Mexicola]

So...that drone at the listening sessions then. Future EP track?

[Negamuse]

Oooh I like that idea

[Sherbet Head]

Ok, I didn't want to start a new topic for this as it could mean nothing, but seeing as a new Speculation megathread has dropped, it seems like the perfect opportunity to mention...

The rear of the Inferno listening session envelope includes a barcode:

5 056818 809064

I've matched this against the barcode on the Inferno LP (both variants) and CD, and this one is similar, but the last 4 digits are different each time. I have also tried running it through a barcode scanner app but this has yielded no results. What could this be referencing? The cassette? Something else entirely?

Again, this may not mean anything, but nevertheless I find it interesting that Warp would choose to print a unique barcode onto an envelope, especially when it was never for sale.

(Apologies if this has already been discussed and I've missed it.)

[Negamuse]

Hmm. Well, boringly, it could just be it was an expense to produce, right? So even if given away to customers it's a product. Maybe it's there so the record company can account for it, or maybe the record stores actually bought their swag packs along with the album orders

[audiotrack]

I agree a 4 track EP could be likely..

Followed by that long awaited BOC set of old material which Marcus has been maticulously working on whilst Mike was busy with Inferno.

[IronMark]

If they wait another 13 years they'll be 68 and 66 years old.

But I bet they'll still have it by then.

[Negamuse]

Music, at 70

[A_Northern_Soul]

I love this. New album release day and "Hurry up and release some new music, Boards of Canada!"

[Sherbet Head]

Hmm. Well, boringly, it could just be it was an expense to produce, right? So even if given away to customers it's a product. Maybe it's there so the record company can account for it, or maybe the record stores actually bought their swag packs along with the album orders

It's possible, but if we adopt that logic, wouldn't the Beatty booklet and hex keyring feature barcodes too?

[Negamuse]

Hmm. Well, boringly, it could just be it was an expense to produce, right? So even if given away to customers it's a product. Maybe it's there so the record company can account for it, or maybe the record stores actually bought their swag packs along with the album orders

It's possible, but if we adopt that logic, wouldn't the Beatty booklet and hex keyring feature barcodes too?

Yeah I dunno. It is weird

[Wildfire]

I really don't want it to be, but I just can't help feel that the ending of Inferno is an end credits goodbye, topped off with a heartbeat stopping at the last moment. I do hope i am wrong, but my gut is telling me that's all folks!

[dolochov]

According to their release timing scheme next album is coming in 21 years so 2047.

[Mexicola]

Music, at 70

Ye gods.

[Mexicola]

I really don't want it to be, but I just can't help feel that the ending of Inferno is an end credits goodbye, topped off with a heartbeat stopping at the last moment. I do hope i am wrong, but my gut is telling me that's all folks!

Nah. People have said that after each of the last three albums. I don't think they're done.

[Wildfire]

I really don't want it to be, but I just can't help feel that the ending of Inferno is an end credits goodbye, topped off with a heartbeat stopping at the last moment. I do hope i am wrong, but my gut is telling me that's all folks!

Nah. People have said that after each of the last three albums. I don't think they're done.

It feels like where the hell do they go from here now though? The themes behind this album are so huge - universal consciousness, religion, death, rebirth, heaven, hell, nihilism. It's the BOC magnus opus. I just hope I'm wrong and you're right!

[noveltywave]

I was really curious about that barcode too, because the record store I was at just had them all in the delivery box and pulled them out and gave it to us, bo scanning at all. So… why?? Is it maybe for some of the vinyl shipments that seem to include them (my shipment didn’t include one though).

[Quadrivium]

In on page 1. LP 6 will be released in 2034.