Boards of Canada Previews 1 New Album With Global Hexagon Listening Events

6 articles · Updated · Pitchfork · May 29

A week before Inferno’s release, Boards of Canada staged worldwide listening sessions in theaters, churches, auditoriums and record stores, with Barcelona attendees hearing the full album under a slowly rotating flaming hexagon.
The rollout leaned on the duo’s long-running hexagon imagery—projected logos, themed decor and the Hexagon Sun motif tied to songs, artwork, their studio and artistic collective.
Inferno is framed as a long-form listening experience, with a deluxe edition offering the full album as a single continuous mix.
The new record is described as the Scottish duo’s most welcoming album since 2002’s Geogaddi, pairing rhythm-heavy tracks with atmospheric interludes and hinting at themes of faith, biology and existential doubt.

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