― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― blutroniq (blutroniq), Friday, 30 May 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 30 May 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
"we want to re-enter life"
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 May 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 31 May 2003 00:55 (twenty 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 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 years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:49 (twenty 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
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:43 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
No silly album titles for Mary! Hey wait, what's this copy of Your Arsenal doing in your collection? (But I tease Mary. :-))
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 21:56 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:19 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
Mary's jones for Yoko Ono now public (assuming it already wasn't)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:05 (twenty years 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link