Thirteen years on from the notoriously enigmatic rollout of their last album Tomorrow’s Harvest, Boards of Canada may be up to similar tricks with a widely anticipated comeback. Recent days have seen a number of fans come forward with footage from mysterious VHS tapes that were supposedly sent through the same distribution channels used by their label Warp Records and its online record store Bleep.
Initial skepticism has now turned into genuine excitement for a potential new album as fans scramble to try and decode the visuals and heavily processed audio that has surfaced so far on YouTube. Watch a couple of those videos below, while bearing in mind that nothing has been verified yet by either the band or the label and it could still turn out to be a big pile of nothing.
Alleged photos of the tapes, which are marked with seven hexagons, have also been uploaded to Reddit. Boards of Canada have a long-running association with hexagons, most famously their studio Hexagon Sun and the track "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" from 1998's Music Has the Right to Children.
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