What Happened At Boards of Canada’s “Inferno” Tokyo Listening Session (opens in new tab)

It’s been 13 years since Boards of Canada’s last album. Can Inferno compete with the best of the brothers’ work? We were at the first listening event in Tokyo to find out. Boards of Canada (BOC) emerged in the 1990s with a sound so utterly unique and captivating that it took decades for the rest of the planet to catch up. Their hauntological style of woozy synths, degraded samples and faded childhood memories has now become so common that you can hear it referenced even in TV show soundtracks...