Boards of Canada - Inferno

Some 13 years after releasing 'Tomorrow's Harvest' Boards of Canada return with an album that reflects our times whilst retaining the distinct sense of otherness that has characterised their work.'Inferno' is suffused with religious imagery. Beyond it's opening triumphant fanfare, it's first half is bathed in the acid-soaked hallucinatory rapture of the apocalyptic evangelist, it's one moment of light coming in the form of a mutated Hari Krishna chant - the slightly heavy-handed 'Naraka - that hints at the more transcendent moments to come.In it's latter half the duo offer a more melancholic perspective, the tension softened by a hopeful optimism that seems to find almost Blakean visions of salvation as 'All Reason Departs' and 'You Retreat In Time and Space'. After so long away it was always gong to be take a bold move by the brothers to land their return and that move proved to be to hold on to the vision that has always defined them, of occult conjurings from an oneiric otherwhere…