GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC PART III

[llydia]

99% likely you say? I'm not sure if anyone knows XCOM but this is like the go-to meme for those who have played the game enough

That was a great reference and I appreciate it heavily lol

Also, come on guys! Boards of Canada can't be cancelled, they aren't a TV series, what contract? Who would even dare refuse a b.o.c album at their door? A mad man maybe...

Edit: Currently looking for two scottish men/women to fill two positions in an upcoming production. Must bring your own beanies!!!

[Negamuse]

Actually, why HAS nobody done Boards of Canada tribute gigs?

Edit: gonna go buy a beanie and some junk CRT monitors and start calling myself Trans Canada Highway

[Altruizine]

Oh God you mean like those Beatles tribute bands where they have the haircuts and suits and everything? But with beanies, North Face jackets and CRT TVs?

That's one way to make sure Mike and Marcus go back to releasing exclusively to 5 friends I guess

[llydia]

Actually, why HAS nobody done Boards of Canada tribute gigs?

Edit: gonna go buy a beanie and some junk CRT monitors and start calling myself Trans Canada Highway

I swear, this is all starting to make sense. Yes. I would happily watch that. Though its kind of the same vibe as a Tom Jones tribute band at some sketchy national holiday hotel. Or as mentioned, The Beatles playing at Butlins Skegness. It would genuinely have to be like the Sphongle of boards of canada for it to work. Like that one bit in Cat In The Hat where they are raving.

[mechanismj]

I am not one to speculate... well... seriously. However, I have a weird feeling that Inferno is the last proper BoC album. I think we will get little things to chew on here and there, maybe even some unreleased goodies at some point, but I don't see another full album in the works. At least not until I am in a retirement facility!

[Waterbagel]

I am not one to speculate... well... seriously. However, I have a weird feeling that Inferno is the last proper BoC album. I think we will get little things to chew on here and there, maybe even some unreleased goodies at some point, but I don't see another full album in the works. At least not until I am in a retirement facility!

i mean, they ARE in their mid 50s!! nothing stopping them, and artists can produce well into their senior years, but biological clocks are ticking, here!

[mechanismj]

I am not one to speculate... well... seriously. However, I have a weird feeling that Inferno is the last proper BoC album. I think we will get little things to chew on here and there, maybe even some unreleased goodies at some point, but I don't see another full album in the works. At least not until I am in a retirement facility!

i mean, they ARE in their mid 50s!! nothing stopping them, and artists can produce well into their senior years, but biological clocks are ticking, here!

Indeed!

I mean, we (them?) basically died twice in one album! Unless they Jebus they ain't comin' back.

I should clarify. I don't see the traditional major label album rollout happening with them again. That is partly because I don't see there being a traditional music industry existing in 20 years. Shit's gonna get messy.

[llydia]

Very soon to say that the duo have called it quits. I didn't feel that at all this play through. There's more than just Inferno, there's the purgatory after. To leave now would be like leaving the house with the cooker on...

[Altruizine]

Röyksopp actually did release ”Junior” and then ”Senior” the next year. Two guys, chillout electronic music, the parallels are there.

I really doubt they’ll do a duology though but I wonder how they would announce the second part. A year seems too soon for a new Boards album. I wonder if at this point they have to spread out the release times so that they can run a massive cryptic campaign each time.

[Waterbagel]

hey, i mean, it used to be not so off par for the course! '96, '98, '00, '02, '05, '06,

[llydia]

Röyksopp actually did release ”Junior” and then ”Senior” the next year. Two guys, chillout electronic music, the parallels are there.

I really doubt they’ll do a duology though but I wonder how they would announce the second part. A year seems too soon for a new Boards album. I wonder if at this point they have to spread out the release times so that they can run a massive cryptic campaign each time.

I love Röyksopp! Senior is a must listen and I have never seen an artist redo this. Would be awesome to see!

[TaoTapeTao]

I don't think we're seeing another album from Boards. This would be a great farewell.

Maybe some old stuff, or the BoCset, but that's it imo

[Negamuse]

It's wistful and thoughtful, and I totally get how people could read into that but I don't think it's the end.

My go to for "final albums" is always The Beatles Abbey Road (yeah I know, Let It Be, but this was the last one they recorded). That whole medley section sounds like the sounds the songwriting machine makes as it's breaking down. The last thrashing spill of ideas that don't quite fit together, vocals recorded with an almost audible "this is the last take I can do, I swear" levels of exhaustion. The wheels falling off as it staggers to get over the line.

I'm not saying BoC are the Beatles, but I always thought if they were done, they'd go out in a similar way, we'd be able to feel the falling apart. Inferno is too thematically together for it to be that album for them. It doesn't sound tired at all, it sounds like they still have a marathon in them if they wanted to run it

[A_Northern_Soul]

I am not one to speculate... well... seriously. However, I have a weird feeling that Inferno is the last proper BoC album. I think we will get little things to chew on here and there, maybe even some unreleased goodies at some point, but I don't see another full album in the works. At least not until I am in a retirement facility!

I get that feeling too. The flexi disc does kind of suggest "actually there's some more stuff!" but I feel like in terms of full studio albums, this is probably it. My feeling is there'll be an EP released soon after of material that doesn't quite fit the album (like Trans Canada...) and some older, pre-Warp music reissued under Music70 then that'll be it. Maybe some remixing/ production credits after that...

That or we get Marcus' The Love Below to Mike's SpeakerBoxx...

[Altruizine]

I think they've said that they'd make music even if nobody was listening because it's their passion. I can still hear that on Inferno. Some people said it sounded like uninspired contrived fan service, which could happen to aging artists. I'm not hearing that. I used to make music just for fun and wasn't really showing it to anyone. Sometimes it would be really experimental, sometimes pretty cheesy.

That's the impression I'm getting from this record. Some guy or guys making tracks that aren't necessarily the most ambitious, complicated or "engineered to appeal" but instead they just made the music they wanted to make. Sometimes there was organically more ambition involved, sometimes less. But it doesn't sound forced at all to me. I kind of doubt they'd even deliberately terminate the project and retire.

[mechanismj]

Yeah, they will always make music if it is their passion. No question. And I do believe, too, that they will drop the occasional remix or production credit here and there. I do also feel like there could be an EP upcoming.

As for the end of the BoC project itself, I don't think we will be informed one way or the other.

I just really hope they don't drop off the face of the Earth for years again, and they remain at least somewhat artistically active while the Inferno hype is still burning.

[mechanismj]

Since the topic is now locked, I want to say that I did fill out the Tally version of the survey.

And I would NEVER disrespect Fredd-E or his choices. Fredd-E is a fucking legend!

[Waterbagel]

And I would NEVER disrespect Fredd-E or his choices. Fredd-E is a fucking legend!

co-signed!

[Cupz]

And I would NEVER disrespect Fredd-E or his choices. Fredd-E is a fucking legend!

co-signed!

coco

[Soul_Slip]

I don’t think Inferno is the end. This album sounds like another soundtrack but now that collapse seems to be tied directly to the album connecting TH, i don’t think they would leave on this note. I feel like with TH and Inferno, even though there were album gaps of time, is the beginning of a new era. They released lots of remixes and endorsed a live bootleg, released XYZ with Peel Session reissue, reissued Twoism then Inferno plus the first public cassette release along with Tape 05 and the new videos. This feels like a new era to me. But I could be wrong. TH felt more like that to me but I was happily wrong. I hope this is not the end.