― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 29 May 2003 09:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 29 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― doom-e (Jam), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 29 May 2003 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 30 May 2003 11:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 May 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― blutroniq (blutroniq), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 30 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
"we want to re-enter life"
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 May 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 31 May 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
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?
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 31 May 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
s'not with it's successes tho: i think it was marcello who chided boards of canada for lazily appropriating abstract loveless sound smear in place of other ideas please, but "valerie" is one of the few songs i've heard that's really learnt the (RIGHT!) lessons of "to here knows when" (the only exceptional mbv song/vacuum cleaner preset in my humble estimation). when that queasy keening dips into pure corrupt-hard-disk density.. sigh. and "the little bell" has that NASA-processing alien information sound in the background, that stuff always kills me - some impossibly urgent message fighting against the technology of its medium to be heard, a staged battle of signal vs noise (cf. "pen expers", "to here knows when" again). those impossibly prickly sounds at the end of "winter now" set against the blurry strings. the interrupted verses and the interrupting chorus of "man is not a bird".
i think it'll be a grower.
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
review: BROADCAST - Haha Soundhttp://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/broadcast_hahasound.htm
Broadcast interviewhttp://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/broadcastiw_1.htm
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 08:34 (twenty years ago) link
a couple listens in i feel like "pendulum" is what had been promised from the beginning and from here the only places to go are back to the radiophonic workshop or in circles round add n to x and middling twee pop. :(
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link
Monday 18.08.03 on xfm (10.30 pm to 1 am, I think)
Tuesday 19.08.03 on John Peel/BBC radio 1 (10 pm to midnight)
― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 14 August 2003 08:48 (twenty years ago) link
'Man Is Not A Bird' echoes 'Pendulum' rhythmically but the vocals are less urgent, more sullen and melancholic - just as haunting overall
'Minim', 'Lunch Hour Pops' and 'Hawk' are my other favourites...i'm not sure its quite as good as 'The Noise Made By People' but i don't know how to rationalise that - i think mitch may have been otm regarding they've pedestrianised things a little with the song structure and the starkness and sheer celebration of sonics inherent in previous work has been a little obscured here by sweet lyrics and dulcit unintrusive tones. i think i like Trish Keenan's voice because of that 'unintrusiveness' aspect - often it just seems like she's there observing and commentating on the song or its scenery rather than really pushing some kind of soul-baring introspection ala Beth Gibbons or whoever. but then if you think back to 'Papercuts', 'Message From Home' or even something like 'Living Room' which sounds more like Sean Lennon singing (may not have been Keenan but hard to tell!) it seems that there was more 'effort' in the singing but acceptance seems to have set in that there's a restricted range to her voice and the new songs have been written with that more in mind (considering the vastness of their forthcoming American tour perhaps this was a good idea). but i don't really know enough about singing to judge her like that. i'll keep listening and loving it anyway.
one thing tho - listen to Broadcast's remix of St Etienne's 'Angel' and perhaps compare Cracknell's vocals on that to Keenan's to see whether a voice more like Cracknell's would work better on other Broadcast material?
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link
Kerrrrrrrazily I HAVE come to love TNMBP over last couple of months and am currently playing it near-constantly, so I dunno. Broadcast may be the ultimate grower group ever ever, although they've had enough hugely-immediate moments (Come On Let's Go, The Book Lovers, etc etc) to suggest that this isn't the case. Haha Sound is fantastic though and I can only see myself getting more into it, rather than going off it.
― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link
Current personal best track = 'Valerie' - great tune, the breathy vocals, spooky lullaby quality. I hope they play more UK dates after the monster US tour, as from their ULU showing in May some of these songs sound even stronger live!
― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 14 August 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 14 August 2003 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 14 August 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 06:53 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 16 August 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
Colour Me In, though, does actually sound like it's been written for the soundtrack of Playschool. Which is great.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 16 August 2003 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
They are a great band though: on their Peel Session last night they finished with a song ('60/40') that is better than several on the album & they didn't even include it on it! The band build & build, going into accelerating orbit whilst Trish stays cool & calm on the same level all the way through. Magic. If you missed it I am afraid you will have to listen all the way through to nearly the end of the programme to hear it.
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:41 (twenty years ago) link
Some days it feels like Until Then is the last song ever written.
― vmajestic, Sunday, 3 December 2023 04:01 (six months ago) link
https://broadcast.warp.net/?fbclid=IwAR3A5VKqAN5RVkWj1LajxcfAZiaA0rmkN7eRBHFR-mTpFK8N3JcYIJrN7IY
Can't wait for these!
― kitchen person, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:43 (two months ago) link
hard same
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:45 (two months ago) link
Damn straight.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:56 (two months ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:10 (two months ago) link
Holy cow!
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:44 (two months ago) link
woah new song sounds great, all in on this
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:45 (two months ago) link
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.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 16:01 (two months ago) link
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
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Friday, 22 March 2024 20:18 (two months ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:23 (two months ago) link
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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 22 March 2024 21:46 (two months ago) link
Both are coming out in May, a couple of weeks apart. Unless you mean vinyl?
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:17 (two months ago) link
Never mind I didn’t read the small type properly. Dammit, seriously, September?!
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:18 (two months ago) link
Duh. Distant Call is coming out on Trish’s birthday — what a beautiful way to wrap up this tradition, and the whole story.
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Sunday, 24 March 2024 02:29 (two months ago) link
There's something very final (obviously) but probably healthy about "This will be the last music from Broadcast".
― djh, Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:23 (two months ago) link
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
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:54 (two months ago) link
Spell Blanket now streaming (and my physical copy just arrived)
― woof, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:33 (one month ago) link
Joy and unbearable ache in equal measures
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:11 (one month ago) link
spell blanket is well titled. some absolutely beautiful songs, all of it is mesmerizing. almost like the acapella sketches more than the finished ones.
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:25 (one month ago) link
"i run in dreams" is an instant pantheon one for me: https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/i-run-in-dreams
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:26 (one month ago) link
Mondrian child let loose with the pen <3
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:35 (one month ago) link
this is great
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 16:27 (one month ago) link
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!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 22:25 (one month ago) link