April 16th, 2026

Blog Post #1: New Boards of Canada. Tape 05.

today i was just editing my about me section of my website, when i quickly hopped onto reddit and saw on my front page right in front of me that Boards of Canada released a new YouTube video on their YouTube channel!!!!!!!!!!!!

i truly cannot believe it.

i wanted to use this first blog post to just talk about my relationship with Boards of Canada due to this momentous occasion.

i almost feel like i'm privileged to be able to receive new material from them this early into being a fan of them instead of waiting 13 years like all the other fans... i first discovered Boards of Canada on August 30th, 2024, after doing research to try to find albums to study to. someone on a reddit thread recommended people to listen to Music Has the Right to Children for this, and i added the album to my spotify playlist at the time, along with some albums by Aphex Twin, C418, STRFKR, Home, Herbie Hancock, and many others...

so for the beginning of my journey into BoC-land i was mostly just listening to them as a study aid. but, even then... i always noticed something special and different about their music... especially when playing tracks from Geogaddi. the beats felt more detailed, more vivid than anything else i'd ever heard before. it felt hypnotizing. it was hard to study to it because my brain kept on creating all these vivid sensory images to it. i called it "the most craziest beats ive ever heard" in a review for Geogaddi i made 2 months later, after listening to songs like "Sunshine Recorder".

and from there, i eventually just started to listen to BoC as a full-focus thing, not just for the background, and i started to realize just how crazy their music really was. one night, i literally just laid down on my bed in the dark, turned on MHTRTC and just listened to it without doing anything else. i think that was the first time that i listened to an instrumental album on its own in the dark like that... because i'd been doing that for albums with lyrics, but not for an electronic album with no words before. and a few days ago, i listened to MHTRTC in my bed from Turquiose Hexagon Sun onwards, and i felt the most floaty that i've ever felt listening to their music before.

i remember another time where i was walking out in the park where i used to live and i was listening to The Campfire Headphase, and it was so beautiful listening to Chromakey Dreamcoat while walking outside in nature. i also listened to that album a lot during roadtrips and it just hit so much harder while in the car, watching the cars go by, the bright sun hitting the inside of the car, and feeling like my brain is melting from doing so much driving...

Geogaddi is also a very weird album to me. it's the only album that i've rated 5 stars purely because of how i'm just astonished that it exists in the way it does. it kinda scares me honestly. i don't listen to it as often as their other work because to me i need to be in a very specific mood to turn it on and let myself be completely hypnotized by it... i did plan on listening to it in the dark a few days ago, though, but i keep on forgetting to do so. maybe i'll do it tonight.

and right now i'm listening to An Eagle in Your Mind on MHTRTC while writing this (my first BoC song i ever heard btw), and i feel like all of their music is hitting so differently after watching the video for Tape 05. i feel like i'm finally beginning to comprehend the true depth and meaning of their music, and how it relates to the human experience... watching the people in the video being so devotional and religiously-crazed really hit me deeply and i started to tear up a lot... i can't fully go into why because it's personal but yeah it just hit me in a really deep spot and it speaks to some personal experiences that i've had over the years with religion, faith, society... everything. it just makes so grateful that BoC exists and deals with these kinds of themes. seriously, thank you Mike and Marcus. i know you'll never read this but your music helps me to keep going and cope with all this, and i bet it's had the exact same effect on many other people. your art is so important and i truly cherish everything you two have put out (also please someday release Play by Numbers, even if it takes until 2075 idc, i'll give up my kidneys for it!!!!)

also if you've read this far check out this instagram video that shows the melody from Tape 05 too, it seriously reminds me of like the Minecraft Soundtrack with how emotional that melody is oh my goshhhhhh

update (4.17.26): i listened to Geogaddi last night and yeah that was an amazing decision. literally when Gyroscope started to play i almost (or maybe to the same level) felt as hypnotized as i do when i listen to mbv, no joke. and then there were a bunch of other songs on the album that had the same effect. so many vivid mental pictures popped up too and the whole experience felt very floaty. safe to say that i don't think i'm scared of that album anymore, it's so detailed and beautiful! and man people were theorizing that this new album might have a similar sound to Geogaddi... soo... aaahhhh!!! *bounces off the walls in excitement*