Search Results for:

BOARDS OF CANADA

Cover of Inferno by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

Inferno

Warp Records

After thirteen years of silence from the compound, during which anticipation has grown day by day, Boards of Canada finally return. Inferno retains their signature melodies and atmospheres, drawing on the esoteric influences explored in Societas X Tape (their 2019 NTS mix for Warp Records’ 30th anniversary) and the darker ambience introduced on Tomorrow’s Harvest, further deepened by an expanded role for speech soundbites.

Spanning seventy minutes, the new album is available on special edition limited red translucent 2LP vinyl in triple gatefold sleeve with a 16-page booklet, black 2LP vinyl and CD with 20-page booklet.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: One of the most beloved electronica bands of the past several decades returns for another highly anticipated slice of retro-futuristic, saturated bliss. Bucolic drifting ambience and deep, clattering percussion with guitars and those ever-present vocal snippets. Undeniably brilliant .

TRACK LISTING

A1. Introit
A2. Prophecy At 1420 MHz
A3. Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan
A4. Age Of Capricorn
A5. Father And Son
B1. Somewhere Right Now In The Future
B2. Naraka
B3. Acts Of Magic
B4. Memory Death
B5. The Word Becomes Flesh
C1. Into The Magic Land
C2. Blood In The Labyrinth
C3. Deep Time
C4. All Reason Departs
D1. Arena Americanada
D2. The Process
D3. You Retreat In Time And Space
D4. I Saw Through Platonia

[ + ]
[ - ]
Cover of Tomorrow's Harvest by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

Tomorrow's Harvest

Warp

Boards Of Canada, one of the most respected and influential electronic artists of recent times, return with their first album in eight years. What with pre-release puzzles, desert parties, mysterious videos, and limited Record Store Day offerings, the hype surrounding 'Tomorrow's Harvest' has been building to a fever pitch. You'll be pleased to know that the album holds up against this weight of expectation, delivering another seductively widescreen, sci-fi cinematic selection of electronica tracks that could only come from the studios of Sandison and Eoin.

With accompanying sleeve / inner sleeve artwork featuring blurry images of secret American landscapes of atom bomb tests, peyote trips, religious sects and Area 51, the album opens with a short electronica piece that references the pair's fondness for the BBC Radiophonic workshop, or perhaps the incidental music from early 70s sci-fi films like The Andromeda Strain. Spidery arpeggiated synths and abstract choral washes lift tracks like 'Reach For The Dead' and 'White Cyclosa', which recall the horror movies of John Carpenter and Dario Argento. The woozy detuned analogue keyboards that became BOC's trademark arrive on the stumbling, stuttering 'Jacquard Causeway', while the beat-driven lushness of 'Cold Earth' could be seen as being a classic of the braindance era.

This eerie and unsettling first half makes way for a more uplifting 'part 2', with tracks like 'Palace Posy' and especially 'Nothing Is Real' providing warm synths, while titles like 'New Seeds' suggest rebirth and hope in this lifeless landscape. Perhaps the soundtrack to a film that only exists on Boards Of Canada's minds, 'Tomorrow's Harvest' is an intense and rewarding listen.


TRACK LISTING

Gemini
Reach For The Dead
White Cyclosa
Jacquard Causeway
Telepath
Cold Earth
Transmisiones Ferox
Sick Times
Collapse
Palace Posy
Split Your Infinities
Uritual
Nothing Is Real
Sundown
New Seeds
Come To Dust
Semena Mertvykh

[ + ]
[ - ]
Cover of Trans Canada Highway by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

Trans Canada Highway

Warp

Using the sun-kissed "Dayvan Cowboy" as its starting point, Boards of Canada's "Trans Canada Highway" mini album / EP follows on from last year's "Campfire Headphase" album. At just under 30 minutes, it's a six track hallucinogenic road trip of isolation and exploration. Neatly, the EP ends up almost where it started, with a moody, twilight distillation of "Dayvan Cowboy" courtesy of cLOUDDEAD's Odd Nosdam.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Dayvan Cowboy
A2. Left Side Drive
A3. Heard From Telegraph Lines
B1. Skyliner
B2. Under The Coke Sign
B3. Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)

[ + ]
[ - ]
Cover of The Campfire Headphase by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

The Campfire Headphase

Warp

Cult electronic pioneers Boards Of Canada return with their long awaited third album, "The Campfire Headphase". Closer than ever to their love of psychedelic and mushroom bands that have influenced them, the album reflects the fact that they have been living deep in the country, with the rhythms being those of nature rather than those of the city. Whilst the album is warm and spacious with layers of live instrumentation, it also contains many of the Boards trademarks that people have come to love - wobbly electronics, melancholic synth washes etc. With the sleeve referencing their classic "Music Has The Right To Children", and the music expanding on previous sounds, "The Campfire Headphase" doesn't disappoint.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Into The Rainbow Vein
A2. Chromakey Dreamcoat
A3. Satellite Anthem Icarus
A4. Peacock Tail
B1. Dayvan Cowboy
B2. A Moment Of Clarity
B3. 84 Pontiac Dream
B4. Sherbet Head
C1. Oscar See Through Red Eye
C2. Ataronchronon
C3. Hey Saturday Sun
C4. Constants Are Changing
D1. Slow This Bird Down
D2. Tears From The Compound Eye
D3. Farewell Fire

[ + ]
[ - ]
Cover of Twoism by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

Twoism

Music 70 / Warp

Originally released on the duo's own Music 70 label in 1995, with only 100 cassette and vinyl copies ever made, originals of this ace Boards LP are still fetching £300+ on Discogs, so this 2002 Warp official reissue is essential for all but the moneyed collector geeks out there! Now re-cut and re-mastered, this album is a collection of minimal ambient treasure is as listless, pastoral and evocative as its follow-up, 1998's 'Music Has The Right Children' and 2002's 'Geogaddi'. Even more understated than its successors, 'Twoism' drifts with indolent beats and droning keyboard hooks.  What you have here are delicate, deceptively simple, emotive soundscapes that bore right to the heart of the listener and refuse to be ignored. Broken into eight tracks but seemingly one continuous gentle sonic glide, 'Twoism' opens with the mesmerising melancholia of 'Sixtyniner' changing course only for 'Basefree' with its restless itchy break beat and urban menace. At turns soothing and haunting it stirs feelings of desolation while somehow creating an intensely intimate feel. Laying the foundations for a career that has seen the duo become renowned exponents of blissful organic electronica

TRACK LISTING

A1. Sixtyniner
A2. Oirectine
A3. Iced Cooly
A4. Basefree
B1. TWOISM
B2. Seeya Later
B3. Melissa Juice
B4. Smokes Quantity

[ + ]
[ - ]
Cover of Music Has The Right To Children by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

Music Has The Right To Children

Warp

THE PICCADILLY RECORDS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1998

Outstanding debut album for Warp from Scotland's Boards Of Canada. Taking influences from Aphex Twin, 'Artificial Intelligence' era Warp releases and laid back hip hop rhythms, then twisting those ideas through a sun-refracted kaleidoscope of lush ambient sounds, Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin came up with a much copied sound all of their own. This was Piccadilly Records album of the year in 1998 and is an unsurpassed collection of melodic electronica tracks. You need this!

STAFF COMMENTS

Darryl says: From 1998:

Martin says: A thing of eerie and absolute beauty, which manages the rarely accomplished and apparently mutually exclusive task of creating deep emotional connection through electronic music. Haunting intervals punctuate primitive, meditative reflection throughout; summoning wistful echoes of an ominous, half recalled childhood summer.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Wildlife Analysis
A2. An Eagle In Your Mind
A3. The Color Of The Fire
A4. Telephasic Workshop
A5. Triangles & Rhombuses
B1. Sixtyten
B2. Turquoise Hexagon Sun
B3. Kaini Industries
B4. Bocuma
B5. Roygbiv
C1. Rue The Whirl
C2. Aquarius
C3. Olson
D1. Pete Standing Alone
D2. Smokes Quantity
D3. Open The Light
D4. One Very Important Thought

[ + ]
[ - ]
Cover of Geogaddi by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

Geogaddi

Warp

Four years on from the massive 'Music Has The Right To Children' Boards Of Canada arrived with triple album epic 'Geogaddi'. It features 23 three tracks of haunting, spooky, exquisite unique electronica. Instead of just repeating the formula of its predecessor, the Scottish duo pushed their sound in a darker direction. However, all of the qualities with which Boards of Canada are identified are still present. Their melodies ooze and whoosh, in an out, rarely repeating and rarely staying true to key or convention. Their timing is startling and impeccable, laying down the biggest of beats in the smallest of places. Syncopation and clipping are not as prominent on 'Geogaddi' as they were on 'Children' but their subtle and frequent presence is crucial to each song's character and presence. Their production is painstakingly attentive to each detail, and it pays off. Every kick of bass drum is perfectly symmetric, crisp, and full.


TRACK LISTING

A1. Ready Lets Go
A2. Music Is Math
A3. Beware The Friendly Stranger
A4. Gyroscope
A5. Dandelion
B1. Sunshine Recorder
B2. In The Annexe
B3 Julie And Candy
B4. The Smallest Weird Number
C1. 1969
C2. Energy Warning
C3. The Beach At Redpoint
C4. Opening The Mouth
D1. Alpha And Omega
D2 I Saw Drones
D3. The Devil Is In The Details
D4. A Is To B As B Is To C
D5. Over The Horizon Radar
E1. Dawn Chorus
E2. Diving Station
E3. You Could Feel The Sky
E4. Corsair
F. Magic Window

[ + ]
[ - ]
Cover of In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country by Boards Of Canada.

Boards Of Canada

In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

Warp

'In a Beautiful Place out in the Country' is another brilliant EP by Boards of Canada. Encompassing four tracks culled from the same recording sessions from which Boards of Canada would later produce 'Geogaddi', the EP tends to favor a darker, more pastoral, and even elegiac atmosphere than its predecessor 'Music Has the Right to Children'.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Kid For Today
A2. Amo Bishop Roden
B1. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
B2. Zoetrope

[ + ]
[ - ]

Latest Pre-Sales

246 NEW ITEMS
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Na Dem / Problems (45 RPM)

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80Na Dem / Problems (45 RPM)

Fingerman - Edit This, Damn You!

FingermanEdit This, Damn You!

Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter - 2026 Repress

Ethel CainPreacher's Daughter - 2026 Repress

Kelly Doyle - Thieves

Kelly DoyleThieves

Gwenifer Raymond - You Were Never Much Of A Dancer - 2026 Reissue

Gwenifer RaymondYou Were Never Much Of A Dancer - 2026 Reissue

Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Light Over Garth Mountain - 2026 Reissue

Gwenifer RaymondStrange Light Over Garth Mountain - 2026 Reissue

Lee Bains - Free South 2025

Lee BainsFree South 2025

Wulf N Flow - Echo Beach

Wulf N FlowEcho Beach

Luft - Something On My Mind

LuftSomething On My Mind

DJ El Ohim - Bateria Recarregada Edits

DJ El OhimBateria Recarregada Edits

Gledd - Gleddits 001

GleddGleddits 001

John Martyn - Grace And Danger - 2026 Reissue

John MartynGrace And Danger - 2026 Reissue

John Martyn - One World - 2026 Reissue

John MartynOne World - 2026 Reissue

Lee

Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic Sound SystemSuper Ape Returns To Conquer - 2026 Reissue

The Smiths - ...Best II - 2026 Repress

The Smiths...Best II - 2026 Repress

The Smiths - Best… I - 2026 Repress

The SmithsBest… I - 2026 Repress

Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret. - 2026 Repress

Bring Me The HorizonThere Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret. - 2026 Repress

Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season - 202 Repress

Bring Me The HorizonSuicide Season - 202 Repress

Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings - 2026 Repress

Bring Me The HorizonCount Your Blessings - 2026 Repress

Blossoms - Songs From The Wedding Cake

BlossomsSongs From The Wedding Cake

Various Artists - Intensified Sounds: The Beverley's Rock Steady Singles 1967 - 1968

Various ArtistsIntensified Sounds: The Beverley's Rock Steady Singles 1967 - 1968

Various Artists - Keep The Pressure On: The Beverley’s Rock Steady Singles 1966 - 1967

Various ArtistsKeep The Pressure On: The Beverley’s Rock Steady Singles 1966 - 1967

Ose - Adonia - 2026 Reissue

OseAdonia - 2026 Reissue

Conrad Schnitzler - Conal - 2026 Reissue

Conrad SchnitzlerConal - 2026 Reissue

Jethro Tull - M.U. - The Best Of Jethro Tull - 50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master Edition

Jethro TullM.U. - The Best Of Jethro Tull - 50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master Edition

Karine Polwart & Pippa Murphy Featuring Dave Milligan - Windblown

Karine Polwart & Pippa Murphy Featuring Dave MilliganWindblown

Case/Lang/Veirs - Case/Lang/Veirs - 10th Anniversary Edition

Case/Lang/VeirsCase/Lang/Veirs - 10th Anniversary Edition

Richard Spaven - Light Of Day

Richard SpavenLight Of Day

Simon Moore & Justin Berkmann - Ministry Of Sound : Anthology

Simon Moore & Justin BerkmannMinistry Of Sound : Anthology

Richard Evans - Looking Backwards Towards The Future : The Story Of Ultravox

Richard EvansLooking Backwards Towards The Future : The Story Of Ultravox

Mark Blake - Pink Floyd Shine On : The Definitive Oral History

Mark BlakePink Floyd Shine On : The Definitive Oral History

Debsey Wykes - Teenage Daydream : We Are The Girls Who Play In A Band

Debsey WykesTeenage Daydream : We Are The Girls Who Play In A Band

Patti Smith - Bread Of Angels

Patti SmithBread Of Angels

Paul Vallely - Live Aid - The Definitive Inside Story

Paul VallelyLive Aid - The Definitive Inside Story

Robyn Hitchcock - Stranded In The Future

Robyn HitchcockStranded In The Future

DJ Spanish Fly - Jealous / Git Buck

DJ Spanish FlyJealous / Git Buck

DJ Spanish Fly - Cadillac Warning

DJ Spanish FlyCadillac Warning

Velocity Girl - 1989-1992

Velocity Girl1989-1992

Foodman - HIKARIGASASHIKOMU

FoodmanHIKARIGASASHIKOMU

Various Artists - Lounge Psychédélique (The Best Of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022) - 2026 Repress

Various ArtistsLounge Psychédélique (The Best Of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022) - 2026 Repress

Squirrel Flower - Say A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going

Squirrel FlowerSay A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going

Jensen McRae - I Don't Know How But They Found Me...Again!

Jensen McRaeI Don't Know How But They Found Me...Again!

Saul Williams - Leap Life

Saul WilliamsLeap Life

Johanna Samuels - Sorry, Kid

Johanna SamuelsSorry, Kid

Apollo Brown & Ras Kass - Blasphemy - 2026 Reissue

Apollo Brown & Ras KassBlasphemy - 2026 Reissue

Wild Pink - Still Coming Down

Wild PinkStill Coming Down

Reel People Feat. Tony Momrelle / Zo! Feat. Dornik - An We Pretend (Tall Black Guy Samba 7

Reel People Feat. Tony Momrelle / Zo! Feat. DornikAn We Pretend (Tall Black Guy Samba 7" Mix) / Lifelines (Reel People 7" Mix)

The Gun Club - Miami - 2026 Reissue

The Gun ClubMiami - 2026 Reissue

Perennial - Modernism

PerennialModernism

Catherine Moan - CM Ultra

Catherine MoanCM Ultra

E-newsletter —
Sign up
Back to top