Boards of Canada and the new A24 hit film Backrooms shared more than a release date this past Friday. The long-awaited return of the influential electronic duo also came with an unexpected big-screen appearance.
“The World Becomes Flesh,” a track from Boards of Canada’s latest album Inferno, plays during the end credits of Backrooms, A24’s adaptation of Kane Parsons’ viral internet horror phenomenon. The placement arrives as the Scottish duo return with their first new album in more than 13 years.
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Backrooms expands on Parsons’ YouTube series, which transformed a simple image of an empty, yellow-walled office space into one of the internet’s most enduring horror myths. Since its debut in 2022, the filmmaker’s found-footage take has amassed millions of views and helped bring the creepypasta into the mainstream.
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The connection between Boards of Canada and Backrooms runs deeper than a shared release date. In a recent GQ interview, Parsons discussed several of the influences behind the film, citing ambient music and artists including Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and Burial as touchstones for the movie’s sound design and atmosphere. The film’s score was composed by Parsons alongside Edo Van Breemen.
In addition to directing Backrooms and co-composing its score, Parsons has quietly built a substantial body of music under the name Not Kane Pixels, releasing ambient and experimental recordings that often mirror the atmosphere of his films. Just days after Backrooms hit theaters, Parsons shared a new track online titled “Wondrous Obsolescence.”
For decades, Boards of Canada have built a devoted following around music that evokes faded memories, analog decay, and an unsettling sense of familiarity. While the duo didn’t invent the liminal-space aesthetic that would eventually fuel the Backrooms phenomenon, their work has long occupied a similar emotional territory, making the appearance of “The World Becomes Flesh” feel like a meeting point between creators exploring the same strange corners of nostalgia and unease.
After grossing more than $118 million worldwide and shattering multiple box office records for A24, Backrooms has cemented Kane Parsons as the latest YouTube creator to successfully make the jump to feature filmmaking. For another example of the platform’s growing influence on modern horror, check out our recent feature by Liz Shannon Miller on Obsession director Curry Barker.
Backrooms End Credits “The World Becomes Flesh”
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