New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

Maida Vail feels a bit like a best-of from the early years, lovely stuff.

Dug out the Children of Alice LP recently and really liked it. Was that just a one-off thing?

For those who expressed interest, I proposed holding a Broadcast poll after the current Daft Punk one. So commencing in late-ish April perhaps. No one has vetoed it so far.

May as well open it up to the various side projects as well. I'm also tempted to allow fairly un-cramped ballots (maybe a maximum of 40 selections), so squiggly instrumentals need not be crowded out by poptastic choices. Their output doesn't feel tiny at all once I contemplate a ballot and remember that, actually, "A Man for Atlantis" or "Microtronics 04" (or whatever) was their secret peak.

Aside from a handful of late live tracks (eg. the ones posted upthread a year ago) and posthumously released demos (eg. these: https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast ), I'm thinking a pool of eligible tracks could look a bit like this, though I may still have missed stuff: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4HSZmkHJvR6JHrDiki9M6E

Excellent! Looking forward to it.

Brilliant!

love the idea of a poll. i'd participate. came here to praise the "Sixty Forty" on the Maida Vale Sessions. lovely lovely cover of a song I didn't know before this.

Poll thread now over here:

Come On Let's POLL - ILM Artist Poll #114 - BROADCAST (Polling and Lobbying Thread)

I'm loving these new Warp vinyl issues. But sadly, Maida Vale Sessions has pretty bad sibilance, especially on the A side, particularly on 'World Backwards'. It's a great pressing apart from that. Hopefully future pressings sort out the issue..

All parts of Maida Vale that have Peel’s intros have been sourced from mp3s of radio broadcasts, I’d say. Considering that, the sound is amazing, but it seems original tapes for 2 sessions have been lost.

Digital tracks don't have the sibilance though. It's a pressing issue.

This year's Trish Keenan birthday track post from James Cargill, beautiful version of a song from Haha Sound https://t.co/L8fV1ct7AI

— Disciples (@Discipl36278031) September 28, 2022

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