The Scottish electronic duo remain hugely influential – but their new album’s interrogation of religion is dubious, and the drum programming is worse still

Dissonant melodies keep this eerie energy, as if the listener will be doomed a few days later like some Japanese horror film

Though the album is consistent in its moody menace, it charts too-familiar territory

While not crafting ambient elevators to greatness as they used to, Boards of Canada still know how to craft moving wanders of electronica that manage to avoid the clichés of their hauntological successors

Time, religion, and the origins of the universe collide on the group’s fifth album for Warp Records

The ever-increasing sonic fidelity of the BoC sound has proven contentious, but it is precisely Inferno’s depth and hi-fi clarity that allows the album’s gods their fullest refulgence

The Scottish electronic production duo prove nobody is better at their kind of limpid lullabies

It takes a special kind of alchemy to transport listeners to an '80s film and the crucible of our universe in the same breath. And what is creation if not an absolute inferno?

Long-awaited fifth LP from the Scottish brothers who altered electronic music’s collective unconscious

13 years after the superb Tomorrow’s Harvest, Scottish duo Boards of Canada turn their attention to religion on the apocalyptic Inferno

The enigmatic brothers Boards of Canada warp space and time on their most sonically diverse offering yet

Here in Inferno, all phantoms are welcome — and if their existences can be elevated with a haunting beat, all the better

Laced with occult imagery and enigmatic samples, the Scottish duo’s immersive new album—their first in 13 years—offers some of the most captivating music of their career

Inferno is yet another piece of the puzzle by the ever confounding Scottish brothers. A million questions are raised here and as time marches onwards you can be sure there will be attempts to unpack every vocal sample, every possible mystery. Inferno is a comeback album that sounds perfectly conceptualized, live and alluring

This really isn’t just music for the background. It’s far too special for that

May not possess the immediate aesthetic singularity of their other records, but with repeat plays it reveals itself as one of the richest and most spiritually fascinating ones they’ve ever made

More than anything, Inferno asks to be thought about – to be considered. It does ask for time. Which at this moment might be flat out revolutionary. A stop to the endless scrolling. An opportunity to consider the past, the present, and what might be to come. That might be what we all need

Boards of Canada are firmly rooted as documentarians of the ruinous now

A brilliant album that doubles down on Boards of Canada's core strengths and finds room to move their music forward

‘Inferno’ sounds unmistakably like Boards of Canada — and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. If anything, in a world this saturated with noise, that familiarity feels like a lifeline

The elusive Scottish electronic duo return after over a decade away with an immersive, multi-dimensional album that is both evocative and ambitious