Boards of Canada “Father and Son” This is my best attempt to summarize the themes of Boards of Canada’s fifth full-length album Inferno after less than a week of obsessive listening: It’s broadly about how most people can sense the existence of some sort of God, but trying to understand what God is takes them in very different directions – scientific rationalization, all manner of religious devotion, fascistic cult behavior, occult philosophy, apocalyptic dread, psychedelic exploration, overt rejection of God. There’s no thesis or argument, there’s no plot or moralization. I think of it as an abstracted audio documentary, a collage of vignettes and references to moments and ideas that fit together intuitively but deliberately avoids a statement. What statement could there possibly be? The point is not knowing. “Father and Son” is the track that pulled me in first, and I heard it without any context for its sample sources or the broader concepts of the record. I was inititally…
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