Boards of Canada - Inferno (a Hauntology Parish Newsletter Special Issue)

I have been worried that the brothers’s new effort has not received the amount of attention it deserves. So to boost its profile a bit, here is a little something I prepared earlier (actually for their label, local indie imprint Warp Records). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^We live in an age of over-exposure. Too many artists actively strip away their mystique, promoting a public persona first and the music a distant second. Going against the grain of our time, Boards of Canada remain an enigma. Rarely photographed, seldom interviewed, performing live just a handful of times over the last thirty years, Boards of Canada let the music speak for itself.Where some of their peers in left-field electronica cultivate a quirkily charismatic public profile, Boards of Canada earned their cult love through the records alone – the beautiful, eerie music and the beautiful, eerie artwork wrapped around it. They don’t have an image, instead their sounds have an unique power to conjure images in your head. As…