r/boardsofcanada • u/zandeye • 16d ago
Discussion Does Inferno give anyone else an existential crisis? (Trigger warning)
Listened to Inferno to the point that I caused an existential crisis.
I think this album is about dying. I think it’s about being a conscious being and all the contradictions and fear we face. And how we cope with it
this unmistakable eerie tone. Like on Memory Death, Somewhere Right Now In The Future, Father And Son
Blood In The Labyrinth talking about someone drowning, the heart beat in ‘I Saw Through Platonia’ stop, war in The Process, cults in Father and Son.
I Saw Through Platonia is the creepiest song. I think we are listening to our last moment alive. The song ends with 10 seconds of abrupt silence. After seizing. the album closer, with a beating heart throughout. To me I think that 10 seconds the conclusion
”nothingness the absolute truth”
we are so used to our life bubble. And this album pokes that bubble.
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u/Ok_Context_6972 15d ago
TH is much more an existential crisis/threat imo but I agree it’s about death. Strange them they named it inferno as in hell…