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Boards of Canada have revealed that 'fatherhood and mortality' inspired their upcoming and hotly-aniticipated new album Tomorrow's Harvest.
In an interview with The Guardian, band member Mike Sandison said that there was a great deal of anxiety at the core of Tomorrow's Harvest - the duo first LP for seven years.
"Being a father fills you with a healthy understanding of your own mortality, and on a bigger scale that responsibility highlights the fragility of our society, or the problems with it," he said. "We've become a lot more nihilistic over the years. In a way we're really celebrating an idea of collapse rather than resisting it. It's probably quite a bleak album, depending on your perspective."
He added: "It's not post-apocalyptic so much as it is about an inevitable stage that lies in front of us. But it's better if listeners find the narrative themselves, in the titles and the sounds."
Watch the video for 'Reach for the Dead' by Boards of Canada below:
Tomorrow's Harvest will be released on Monday 10 June via Warp Records.
The full tracklisting is:
'Gemini'
'Reach For The Dead'
'White Cyclosa'
'Jacquard Causeway'
'Telepath'
'Cold Earth'
'Transmisiones Ferox'
'Sick Times'
'Collapse' 'Palace Posy'
'Split Your Infinities'
'Uritual'
'Nothing Is Real'
'Sundown'
'New Seeds'
'Come To Dust'
'Semena Mertvykh'
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