Sunday 6 March 2011

New Boards of Canada album on the way?


Boards of Canada haven't released a new album since 2005's Campfire Headphase. Between then and 1998, there have only been two other (admittedly excellent) albums from the Scottish duo to keep fans entertained. The scarcity of new material is particularly odd given the profusion of releases the band put out before 1998. They seem to have become more obsessively perfectionist with each release. But is the wait now over? According to the website Skies Are Rare, it might well be. The site claims that an icon entitled "new album" has appeared on the official BOC site - just as it did before the Trans Canada Highway EP. Maybe this is significant or maybe it isn't. But it just shows the sort of rune-reading BOC fans are used to undertaking as they wait forlornly, desperately, for a new record.
Read more here.

7 comments:

  1. Thanks for the link through Robert. Here's hoping that this isn't just paranoid fan-boy wishful thinking. New BOC would pretty much make my YEAR...

    Jonny | SkiesAreRare

    ReplyDelete
  2. God, I hope you're right, Jonny. They're one of the best bands we've got.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I agree, if this new album cost 200 bucks i'd buy it. (Unless it was *shiver* a load of rubbish)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hello Robert Rowlands, do like much on your list. Hope the new BOC album will be better than their last. Dayvan Cowboy was inconsistent, some beautiful moments at the end but the beginning was weak.
    Samuel K

    ReplyDelete
  5. The new BOC album will be released in 2012, to coincide with the Mayan end-of-days prophecy of 2012/12/21. It will be a significant release.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. what's your source for this?

      Delete
  6. There will not be any new BOC music released. There can't be because they haven't created any since 2005. They said themselves that they were going back into their studio to select some older unreleased material that would be cleaned up and re-mixed/mastered. I'm willing to bet it will most likely consist of a number of tracks we've all probably heard from the "A few old tunes" release.

    ReplyDelete