It’s been out for less than a week but it already feels impossible to add anything about the new Boards of Canada album that hasn’t already been said. I can say that I love it and that I think it’s a masterwork. The artwork and packaging of the 2x LP is beautifully done, and the extra hexi-flexi disc with its mysterious provenance and forward/backward single track was a complete surprise.

INFERNO feels to me like a culmination of all of their past output, produced in a less cosy/nostalgic mode and more like a confident, focused work that’s not afraid to walk in the sunlight. But like the best of David Lynch’s work, sometimes the sunlight can make truly evil things all the more haunting.

I’ll leave it up to you as to whether or not you want to dig deeper. You certainly do not need to. But the meanings and connections are there for those who want to grab a map and a shovel and start digging.

OK, there was one imperfection that I just had to fix…the obviously terrible kerning…