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Boards of Canada

Plays on LTZ: 6 across 6 shows (2023-02-02, 2025-05-01, 2025-05-28, 2026-01-22, 2026-05-29, 2026-06-04)

Tracks played

Research

17. Boards of Canada — You Retreat in Time and Space

Boards of Canada are Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison, a Scottish duo based in Edinburgh. Their music is shaped by nostalgia, disquiet, and warmth — VHS aesthetics, faded childhood, analogue decay. Music Has the Right to Children (1998) and Geogaddi (2002) are their defining records. Tomorrow's Harvest was released in 2013. Inferno — their fifth studio album — was released today, May 29, 2026, via Warp Records: nearly thirteen years between albums, their longest gap. In April 2026, their music was used without permission in a Trump campaign video; they objected publicly. Boards of Canada have no social media presence. "You Retreat in Time and Space" is track 17 of 21 — described as a rare moment of warmth on an otherwise dark record, "like a return to the optimistic warmth of Music Has the Right to Children." Bells, soft horns, quiet melody. 5:25.

Placement: TikTok opener for Segment 6. Released today. Thirteen years. No social media. The track is the light on a dark album — playing it the night the record drops is the point.

Boards of Canada — Olson

Boards of Canada — Into the Magic Land

Boards of Canada are Marcus Eoin and Mike Sandison, a Scottish electronic duo based in Edinburgh, formed early 1990s, associated with the Warp Records roster. Inferno was released May 29, 2026 via Warp — their fifth studio album and first release in thirteen years, following Tomorrow's Harvest (2013). Recorded at their Hexagon Sun studio in the Pentland Hills, Scotland, the album is described as IDM and hauntology, darker and more guitar-driven than previous work, with allusions to biblical themes and the occult. "Into the Magic Land" is track eleven: post-rock in texture, guitar-focused, described by critics as having a spaghetti western quality — as if a desert mirage has swept into a half-lit saloon. Third track in the opening segment, bridging dream pop and the fuzzier knitting track that follows, and hinting at the singer-songwriter run ahead.