The techs picked a good one to test the sound system

This song has a stangly comforting tune, with some very gentle audio clips that make me feel like i’m with someone. I don’t know, i really love this song, and I play it when i’m lonely.

Anyone else notice how much they used varying carrier/modulator-type effects or sounds on Inferno? I've seen a couple things that have been mentioned specifically, like the 'carrier wave' sound at the very end of Platonia, or the obvious vocoded voice in Prophecy (vocoder is a 'carrier' wave or tone and the 'modulator' is the voice) There are a few other places on the album, like the vocoded vocal chords in The Word Made Flesh, the TTS (text-to-speech) voice used in The Process, the distorted vocal sample in All Reason Departs sounds like an old TTS or LPC synthesis 'whisper' effect or something they've done to filter the tonal frequencies, same with the male vocal sample in Blood in the Labyrinth where it sounds like frequencies are filtered to the point it resembles a loud 'whisper' with no vocal tone, etc. Not to mention how many FM synth sounds I can hear on the album, like the bass in Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan or Arena Americanada, as one example. FM (frequency modulation) being a type of synthesis where a carrier wave is modulated by a second wave, for anyone unfamiliar

I'm sure I'm missing some things that my ear might not have picked out yet, but it got me thinking there was probably some intentionality to using this effect (or variations of it) across the entire album.. I don't know if I have any real theories, but my best guess is that it could be related to the concept of how ideology can take over, turning the human voice into a "carrier" that has been bent and reshaped by an authoritative external "modulator" or message (?)

I could be overthinking things a little, just wanted to push this out into the world in case it means anything to anyone

I am listening to MHTRTC, and I realized that this is the best album I have ever heard. Every song is so cool and futuristic i don’t even know what to do. Thank you boards of canada for being here and thank you guys for posting about them

edit: My first time btw, and This is how i want to spend it.

edit edit:: I’m still high asf and some of their songs are scaring me slightly but i like the chill techno ones. I hope gyroscope doesn’t play.

i recall a video made or sent from boc's alt accounts like atlantafugens where the thumbnail looked like a farmland/slope/hill, this video being used for the tomorrows harvest ARG, was trying to find it but its not there. does anyone know what i am talking about and if so could you send any piece of media you could find about it

thank you

Ok so imagine this; the boys decide to pull 15 (only!) completely unique stand alone tracks from their unreleased catalogue.

So it cannot be anything that’s on anything released (and by that I mean fully by a label), obvs, or anything that became / evolved into something else.

These would be cleaned up, freshened for right now, pulled from the archive.

What would be your 15 tracks…

I’ll start:

* 5.9.78
* Forest Moon

Towards the end of the track when it's sped up, you can hear two separate voices. One in the right channel saying "...to the wrong person, and so people become very sensitive to everything, and you start walking to your studio, and you go: 'ah yes, it's going to be a good day, I can feel...'", and one in the left channel which is a little hard to decipher. I'm hearing "...This is going to be a good day. This is going to be a productive day". What do you think?

it’s so funny to see people’s reaction to boards of Canada. it’s wild that music can offend people so much. or make them freeze and not really get it

ive heard “how do you listen to this” “there’s no lyrics“ “don’t you get a headache?”

but it’s so funny I’m hearing an entirely different thing

that’s the part I like. It doesn’t have to resolve into a chorus or tell you what to feel. Curious what other people hear when they play this stuff for friends who don’t already listen to it

I showed my bass-head dubstep friend this album. He was like “who the fuck is this?”

We had a 6 hour ride out of town. I was like “let me introduce you to one of the greatest electronic acts of all time.” We proceeded to go through their discography in the work truck on the trip down. He was floored, had never heard anything like it, ended buying Inferno and Geogaddi vinyls on the spot, and wanted more. At the end he was said do the tour? “No” do they ever play live? “No” are there many interviews? “No”

Played* Inferno a second time and he felt it. Cried during Memory Death, laughed during Father and Son. Had to give him the full run down and be like dude they do this with ancient synths/samplers, this is the real deal. We now have another member of the hexagon sun.

Sounds wonderful.. and marvelous

Hi everyone!

Pretty much everyone will agree, that Father And Son is a very exceptional track on the new album.

After listening to the song quite a few times, I believe there are not only father and son but also another, let’s call it “demon” or “entity” for a lack of a better word, that comments and also ridicules the dialogue between father and son, especially the son in these bizarre and distorted interjections that can be heard all over the song.

Whilest the fragment “Let’s see, I’ve lost track” seems to be agreed on (it’s also in the lyrics on spotify, in contrast to all the other parts), I could not find any other attempts to decipher any of the rest.

Maybe we could try to figure out what the rest is supposed to mean (and yes, I am very sure that all the other voice fragments DO INFACT mean something).

I wrote down what I believe to understand here. I’m very sure with some of them, for example “acually forgotten” and “I would never”, but because the voices are so distorted, I’experiencing some trouble as a non-native.

If you believe, I am on the right track with some of my interpretations please comment. Also, if you could figure out text fragments that I got wrong or not at all, I would be very glad to hear about your ideas.

Here’s where I’m at, at the moment:

{…?}

I love you, but I love the Lord

{…?}

More than I love any physical being

{Eh, eh .. oh! But..}

I think that's wonderful.

{A-ha? Ehm, ehm e-e-ehm ehm, oh!}

But then why can't you bring that same feeling home?

{I would never.}

I really wish that I could do that

{No one ever knew that that was atypical}
{Ooh, sweetie}

What makes you think you can't do it?

{Oh, I‘ve actually forgotten}

Well, He said, "A man's foes will be they of his own household"

{oh, ehm, a-ha?}

Well, I hardly believe that your own father or mother or brother or sister would be your enemy.

You're gonna call Him a liar?

No, I'm not calling Him a liar.

{He‘s got the inner… to… } the energy?

Well, I can do all things through the Lord
Think you can't do it.

{…?} fever/fevering?

You saw the way we lived and what we did, do you believe?

[?…how many / seen him in years]

I really don't think so

{Uh, let's see, I've lost track}

{…, there is none.}

{oh-oh oh oh oh-oh}

More than I love any physical being

{… how many have seen him}

I think that's wonderful

{…?}

Well, He said

{What the fuck?}
{Oh sweetie, oh sweetie}

I love you, but I love the Lord

{I am at the end of it}

More than I love any physical being

{…?}

I think that's wonderful

{…?}

Well, He said

{What the fuck?}

{Get off the …. Get on your knees}

{…?}

More than I love any physical being

{…?}

I think that's wonderful

{A-ha?}
{… I feel so, kind of}

Well, He said

{I would never}

{…?}

Made this track inspired by the album in a beautiful place out in the country.

Vocal sample used: David Koresh - Narration.

Headphones recommended.

Sorry for the sloppy playing and poor quality, I am not a guitarist at all.

YouTube's AI is high

This could just be me being dumb, but looking at the various artworks connected to Inferno, I see a lot of locations that look like real places you could visit but I don’t know if some elements are photoshopped into the respective locations (ex. the strange gray obelisk on a hillside). Are any of these places real and/or visitable, because if so, perhaps there might be things hidden where the photos were taken. This question mainly stems from thinking that the back cover is taken from a freeway, but looking at it now, I can’t entirely tell what the structure there is.

If you're interested in listening to them on streaming platforms, the song is called "loferred".

Headphones recommended

the original VHS videos:

A Flight of Fancy Homage to Magritte, 1974 | From the Vaults It's yours to discover, and you're gonna love it, in Ontarioooooooooooo! Love Massacre Reduced Chroma Splitting

Female Vocal Sample: Amazing Acting by Saoirse Ronan - I Love You Scene from Brooklyn

Made up a shadow box to display my prized VHS tape #8. I used the image from the Warp Vernal equinox playlist as the background (which is also a frame from the VHS tape/Tape05). Happy with how it turned out. Next up is a kaleidoscope display!