New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

i NEED the rest of the EP, but i'm gonna buy it when it comes out defo. up well up for either the ULU or Brighton gig too. i love Trish.

Sheffield? I thought they were from Birmingham area...

Sorry, I just feel that since I'm currently living in Brum that I should get very annoyed about that incorrect geographical accreditation.

captured under hypnosis
faster and faster images

can a reading be obtained
all this mystery explained
i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

logic offers no defence
underneath this influence

why disguise our ...? ...?
holds emotion in suspense
i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

caught between the day and night
...?

i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

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i'm sure i'm wrong somewhere...

But shit, it is good. Really, really good. My feet haven't involuntarily tapped like that in sometime...

In travelling on the tube, zipping through the stations and staring at the pictures of the POWs, that is what struck me about the new Broadcast was that the songs speed by; that need for speed. The violence could come from my own thoughts about the war and the general anxiety. Broadcast make something new their own.

Her voice is working beautifully, too, singing to someone about half a yard to the left of wherever it is you're looking. I was gonna listen to the Donnas album, but this has just overtaken it big time.

2003. It is a fucking top year (music wise).

Thank you so, so much.

(Me no like Ladytron 'cept for one single when they do an ace rip off of the Human League :-P )

sigh, isn't it GREAT?!

I feel the need to convert the whole world to this one. I'm in orrr-bit...

I'm gonna write something big on this, I fear. Even if I can't make out the lyrics you can't make out either.

The EP will be followed by the band's second proper LP, 'hahasound', due for release in August. The Birmingham group's acclaimed debut album 'The Noise Made By People' was released in 2000.

Broadcast play a string of US dates in May before commencing their UK tour. The dates are:

Glasgow Academy 3 (May 27)
Manchester Hop and Grape (May 28)
Cambridge Boatrace (May 29)
London ULU (May 30)
Brighton Pavilion (June 1)

Support comes from Imitation Electric Piano, except for Brighton Pavilion which is co-headlined with Alfie. The Projects also provide support at the ULU show.

For ticket availability

i will be at the ULU gig defo - got ticket already, see you down the front for a good heavy session of, erm, sage nodding

and yeh Tag i put that up, i got it from a friend who's into everything in the Warp vein - i recorded an MD round his house but we forgot to keep track of what was going on the disk - loads of Broadcast on there so i mistook it for one of their tunes for ages. i keep meaning to play it to this guy and hopefully he will remember what it is and i'll finally get around to that this week so the mystery will be solved.

as far as I understand it: not really. they were in love with new technologies. But of course new technologies => could be a really kule sound making machine or new 'weapons of mass destruction' so it was fuzzy logic.

I still don't know where that is in relation to ULU! (I'd already guessed you didn't mean the one in Hoxton...)

I'll be the fule in the...oh I dunno, who organises these things in advance? A ninetynine t-shirt, probably.

"we want to re-enter life"

but I had to leave straight after "Unchanging window" - what did I miss? Goddamn livingoutsidelondonness - anyone need a house-sitter between now and the end of july?

That was wonderful, thanks Ned!

Aww that was nice. She was the best.

This is not your sawtooth wave

"Dead The Long Year" came on shuffle and I thought it was some mid-90s RZA track until it got a bit weird.

still tripping out to “… investigate with cults of the radio age” over here

greatest band of the late 90's/00's

New album of demos coming out in early 2024 - been waiting so long for something like this, total holy grail release

Since Trish's untimely passing in 2011, James has continued to remember her by sharing unreleased Broadcast demos each year on her birthday, September 28th.

In the spirit of those birthday demos Broadcast present “Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006-2009"

The collection comprises songs and sketches drawn from Trish's extensive archive of 4-track tapes and minidiscs. The recordings lay the groundwork for what would have been Broadcast’s fifth album, offering an intimate window into the creative process of Trish and James during this period post Tender buttons.

'Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006-2009' will be released via Warp Records in early 2024.

I’m both sad and thrilled

Yes, that.

Was inspired to listen to The Noise Made By People in between listening to Gwenno’s solo albums which are somewhat similar on another thread and it’s sounding so great right now.

Some days it feels like Until Then is the last song ever written.

https://broadcast.warp.net/?fbclid=IwAR3A5VKqAN5RVkWj1LajxcfAZiaA0rmkN7eRBHFR-mTpFK8N3JcYIJrN7IY

Can't wait for these!

hard same

Damn straight.

C'mon don't put a 36 song release on streaming with ONE song available and we have to wait till May?

Cruel.

One sample song is beautiful of course and one can only wonder what could've been.

Holy cow!

woah new song sounds great, all in on this

yeah new song great but "Tears In The Typing Pool" (demo) also amazing... seemingly effortless to have a melody and structure like that already fleshed out from the start.

that new song is stunning, amazing how hypnotic and compelling and complete it sounds with just three (?) elements - it makes me think of how tender buttons was an unfinished recording that was actually perfect, similar (much sadder) vibes here

it’s going to kill me, I expect. it must be very hard for James to put these out. I love the cover art as well.

Gee, it really is two discs. September (!) for the 2000-2006 volume lol. Wasn't sure how to interpret the cover images on a certain Context-Free Streaming Platform. Only got as far as digging that photocopier aesthetic.

Both are coming out in May, a couple of weeks apart. Unless you mean vinyl?

Never mind I didn’t read the small type properly. Dammit, seriously, September?!

Duh. Distant Call is coming out on Trish’s birthday — what a beautiful way to wrap up this tradition, and the whole story.

There's something very final (obviously) but probably healthy about "This will be the last music from Broadcast".

had a look at the Spell Blanket track listing and nothing seemed to be obviously ‘Eyes Open’ or ‘Dulcimer Jam’… but i guess time will tell

Spell Blanket now streaming (and my physical copy just arrived)

Joy and unbearable ache in equal measures

spell blanket is well titled. some absolutely beautiful songs, all of it is mesmerizing. almost like the acapella sketches more than the finished ones.

"i run in dreams" is an instant pantheon one for me: https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/i-run-in-dreams

Mondrian child let loose with the pen <3

this is great

yeah, this is really fantastic. not that I expected them to be barrel scrapings or something, but still found myself frequently amazed at how gorgeous some of these are!

Why, a professionally shot video recording of an Italian show from 2010 on the Investigate Witch Cults tour? I'm glad you asked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rntWJcQFhbM

that tour was the only time I ever was able to see them live! i was just scanning through the setlist and it suddenly reminded me why i couldn't remember 90% of the songs they were playing.

I didn't realize they were doing shows at that point.

Watching open-mouthed

I saw this. Was a big CMJ show in NYC with Atlas Sound. Opened with a 20 minute Julian house movie they played along too.

if this is any indication, the new demos compilation will be well worth checking out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDOtflaJBY

that's from the collection that's already available, but I am excited about the next one

yeah it came out in may, didn't know there's another on the way

i guess new wasn't the best word, i suppose i meant to say that the demos comp from this year will be fun for me to check out based on my reaction to that track

yep, the 2nd part Distant Call, which covers 2000-2006 will be out on Sept 28

Spell Blanket is indeed very good and well worth your time, probably one of my favorites of the year so far, kind of hard to believe they had so much high quality material that never came out

MORE: https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/album/distant-call-collected-demos-2000-2006

They were so good.

If Distant Call is truly the final release then I suppose there will never be a home for the unreleased tracks they performed on their last tour.

I love this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPvcm0cw6U

Distant Call is beautiful, if a bit damned intimate. It was a bit of a shock hearing what it was because of that. I wasn't even sure I liked it at first, or if I needed to hear it. But I'm completely won over now. It is going to be a classic bit of Broadcast for many.

A little bit tearful actually.

This is incredible if, yes, almost too intimate.

I love Spell Blanket but still haven't fully got my head round it, like it's got that fragmentary, in and out of focus feeling of Witch cults/BBS/Mother and like them it's working in bit by bit. I hadn't really looked at the track listing for Distant Call so expected more of that and it basically jumped me with all these songs I know well in this bare form.

They're a beautiful pair of releases, complementary, clearly put together with love. It feels like the right way to end. Makes me want to send a thank you note.