Unmarked VHS tapes started landing in US mailboxes on April 6, shipped from the address Warp and Bleep use for fulfilment. Black sleeve. Seven white hexagons. An NTSC sticker. Inside: a minute or so of degraded analogue video, shortwave-style audio, and layered vocal fragments that fans on KEYOSC and r/boardsofcanada have identified as manipulated material from Societas x Tape. Some listeners are picking apart what sounds like frequency-shift keying data embedded in the audio itself.

No music. Just a transmission.

This is the exact playbook Boards of Canada ran for Tomorrow's Harvest in 2013: mystery 12" singles hidden in record shops, Adult Swim late-night broadcasts, a Tokyo billboard, shortwave fragments, a six-digit code hunt. Thirteen years of silence, and then suddenly the same kind of cryptic analogue mailout arrives at people's doorsteps. Resident Advisor asked Warp for comment. Per RA, Warp were, unusually, unavailable for comment.

The hauntology aesthetic running through all of this isn't decoration. It's the point. The whole band was always a transmission from a future that didn't quite arrive. Now the broadcast is picking up again.

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