Broadcast. How could I have been so wrong?

haha sound was better, i like about 4 tracks on that quite a lot, pendulum, man is not a bird, hawk, but...i dont know, i still just dont like her vocals at all. she sort of sounds dead

in a weird way they remind me a bit of oriental sunshine as much as they do white storm

i should re-upload their ATP 2001 (or was it 2000?) show, which is gloriously messy (in a good way) but doesn't include 'Hammer Without A Master' - tho the Islington show i recorded last year does.

only on a couple of USA tracks does the similarity with Broadcast seem really apparent.

I have half of each, I think. I don't mean to overstate the USA influence either, but there was an overlap and BC did lose out (they also overlap with the Shortwave Set and Flipper's Guitar in a way, but those aren't as direct as the more sounds upon sounds comparisons I was thinking of).

Broadcast return with a new album in the Autumn, with a limited 7" single America's Boy released in August. The new music has a darker psychedelic feel than the last album, with drumloops and tape manipulations underpinning Trish's vocals.

The album is called Tender Buttons. Sounds fun.

reissues coming

I guess this means my og vinyl copies won't be worth $$$ anymore :(

i got haha sound a couple years ago and wasn't into it, it just made me want to listen to Stereolab. but i got the work and non work comp yesterday and it rules

Oh yeah that Work & Non Work compilation is perfection. One of my most played albums ever. They did a great job sequencing those songs.

Have you listened to Ha Ha Sound recently? Give it another shot.

I highly recommend any Broadcast fans check out the Cat's Eyes song "Names on The Mountains".

I've been rediscovering Broadcast lately. The first album (Noise Made By People) is by far the one I'm most familiar with. I love the thing they did with Focus Group too. I should really take the time to check out the other stuff.

they never made a bad record

How can one object to Broadcast for sounding like Stereolab yet praise Work And Non Work? Oh wait it's a flappy bird post never mind

The version of "Unchanging Window (Chord Simple)" from EP2 is probably my favourite Broadcast track ever.

xpost i didn't object to them sounding like Stereolab, i don't even remember what Ha Ha Sound is like. nearly two years ago it didn't click. and now i dig Work and Non Work. woof

Ha Ha Sound sounds less like Stereolab than Work and Non Work. Regardless, the more you listen to Broadcast the less you think they sound like Stereolab at all.

Like many great bands Broadcast sounds like no one else but they evoke an uncanny sense of familiarity. They don't really sound like Stereolab but they bring you back mentally to a similar idea of the 60s that is also an idea of the future.

Tried to phrase that in a less cloying way but whatever. Great band.

I wrote an essay in my head years ago but never typed it up about what they really have in common. Basically they're both amazing record geek bands with specific sets of influences that they rip off wholesale where the sum is more than the parts, and the most major difference between the bands is the differing choice of source material.

That's a simplification obviously but it makes some sense to me.

Work And Non-Work is the one that finally sucked me in after trying with several others

my initial entry point was that Motorway Mix that went around after Trish died, I love that thing

The Broadcast sound does seem to operate by stealth, i.e. its influences sound obvious and excessive but the more you replay the more you find deceptive side-steps that hook you back in.

Noodle Vague otm 11 years ago

All broadcast is good

The person who made the mammoth Stereolab Origins series on YouTube also made an eight part Broadcast one - here's the first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqhqn2CeoTw

Was lucky to see them live in 2003 and I'm taken aback at just how well all of their albums have revealed their depth. I love those last couple of albums and am still sad about what could have been.

The Future Crayon is as great as any one of the albums - great 'b-side' band too.

Fantastic record covers too. I always felt like Julian House brought his A game for this band, even over the stuff on his own label.

Broadcast played twice on Halloween in Vancouver (afaik). Trish signed my Tender Buttons poster and commented on my "green hair" (I was dressed up as a senior and the neon lights turned my grey hair green). Trish is very much missed.

Anyone dig "Mother is the Milky Way" their tour EP? It was one of their last releases and it showcased a more pastoral folk side that was deeply trippy. Some tracks were naught more than a guitar and Trish' voice.

wait what I never even heard of that

1 for sale from $75.00, lol

https://www.discogs.com/Broadcast-Mother-Is-The-Milky-Way/release/1978395

Yeah, Mother is the Milky Way was very nice, felt like a continuation of the Focus Group collab LP. Just about everything they did was great, but for me Tender Buttons is their absolute masterpiece - with the help of a sentient fax machine they cranked out the most endlessly listenable collection of neon future pop ever.

Was lucky to see them live in 2003 and I'm taken aback at just how well all of their albums have revealed their depth. I love those last couple of albums and am still sad about what could have been.

Yeah, saw that same show with ET and it was truly special. As were they.

peluché will prob be up alleys here too

Cat's Eyes as well, who I've mentioned but are completely ignored everywhere it seems. They even did the soundtrack to Duke of Burgundy (same director as Berberian Sound Studio).

Witch Cults might still be my favorite album released this century. Definitely way way up there, at least.

Duke of Burgundy seemed practically designed around an imaginary Broadcast score it couldn't have.

that Gwenno album is excellent and I bet if she hadn't been one of the Pipettes it would have been a favourite round here

― boxedjoy,

Rose has made a couple of great albums too.