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After a very long, very cryptic teaser campaign, Boards of Canada<\/a> are officially back\u2014sort of. A mysterious, three-minute piece of music, titled \u201cTape 5,\u201d appeared on the Scottish duo\u2019s YouTube this morning, with corresponding uploads on the social channels of their longtime label Warp<\/a>. No information\u2014or even formal confirmation that it is new BoC music\u2014is at hand, however. Listen to \u201cTape 5\u201d and decide for yourself below.<\/p>\n Boards of Canada\u2019s outsize influence, psychedelic sound palette, and sideways worldview never went away. In a very real sense, however, Boards of Canada did go away\u2014for 13 years. Since their fourth album, 2013\u2019s Tomorrow\u2019s Harvest<\/em><\/a>, intermittent signs of life have appeared in the form of seemingly<\/a> random<\/a> remixes<\/a>, archival<\/a> reissues<\/a>, and an NTS DJ mix<\/a>.<\/p>\n True to form, the Boards of Canada resurrection has murmured to life so quietly that only the most obsessive of code breakers twigged it early on. Last May, Pitchfork received an email tip from a fan pointing to a website once used for BoC clues\u2014but latterly condemned to 404 errors\u2014that had been revived with the following message: \u201cnobody home… \/\/\/ -. — -… — -.. -.– \/ …. — — . .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-\u201d That\u2019s the phrase \u201cnobody home\u201d in English and morse code.<\/p>\n The rumor mill fired up in earnest on April 6, when a handful of fans\u2014first on Discogs and Reddit, then across social media\u2014reported receiving VHS tapes imprinted with BoC\u2019s hexagon-mesh logo. According to the obsessive archivists at BoC Pages<\/a>, the tapes contain audio<\/a> for an ad for a Christian bible school magazine that stopped publishing in 1991.<\/p>\n A poster campaign followed, with designs reminiscent of the artwork for the band\u2019s 1998 landmark Music Has the Right to Children<\/em><\/a> appearing in London, New York, California, and at the fabled Liquidroom venue in Shibuya, Japan. Though Warp remains tight-lipped, the label posted an Instagram carousel<\/a> of the posters on April 14 (one shows them side by side with another<\/a> cryptic comeback campaign\u2019s), followed by today\u2019s upload<\/a>, which you can watch below.<\/p>\n