New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

that demo is so beautiful - there’s something about those intimate (dictaphone?) recordings of Trish that I find really transporting - it’s like they open up another dimension

Weird coincidence considering the posts upthread from last year but there’s a new BBC sessions album coming out soon. It’s in Mojo but I can’t find anything about it online so far.

oh yeah, I saw a screenshot of a Jon Dale I think review, BBC sessions but also two other releases? Maybe the witch cult one? Also didn't see anything online.

Maida Vale Sessions, Microtronics 1 & 2, and Mother is the Milky Way all getting releases on Warp. It's in Uncut. It doesn't say how they are being released.

oh right. I have the microtonics 3" Cds.

And here's the details

Broadcast release three archival albums 18 March 2022, available for the first time across formats.

‘Microtronics - Volumes 1 & 2’ [WARP335]
‘Mother Is The Milky Way’ [WARP336]
‘BBC Maida Vale Sessions’ [WARP337]

Pre-order
→ https://t.co/TrrYbPThrR pic.twitter.com/whfUK0LV0I

— Warp Records (@WarpRecords) January 25, 2022

Can't wait to hear the Maida Vale sessions! (and have a legit copy of Mother is the Milky Way)

Woah

various levels of things i already have. not sure i've heard the evening session tracks though.

some of those peel sessions i prefer to the 'real' versions. 'where youth and laughter' go sounds more playful, for instance.

Maida Vale Sessions is fantastic

It really is.

yeah it is absolutely wonderful, the 2003 session in particular is breath-taking. Mother is the milky way is a revelation too, liberated from headphones and wooly mp3 compression, it make perfect sense as an lp. I always thought of it as an endearing footnote to witch cults, but i think i might actually prefer it.

Never heard the Nico cover Sixty Forty before (nor the original!). It's absolutely gorgeous.

definitely gonna pick up the vinyl of the BBC sessions

selling Mother is the Milky Way as a full-priced LP feels a little cheeky - would have been cool even just to bulk it out with the Familiar Shapes and Noises EP (which is sometimes my favourite Broadcast release)

Maida Vale Sessions is fantastic

― willem

Absolutely! Some of these versions are unbelievable. I felt so emotional listening to Echo's Answer.

Whoa, didn't even know this was coming. *opens streaming client*

I did the exact same thing!

Pretty sure "Echo's Answer" is the pinnacle of mankind's achievements in my lifetime tbh.

I guess I should have heard "Forget Every Time" and "Sixty Four" via unofficial channels by now, but I never did. I'm digging them.

Will have to seek some actual retail CDs, for the first time in a while, if only so I can conduct a ceremonial trashing of my Microtronics and Mother CDRs lol.

^er, "Sixty Forty" rather.

Incidentally, might there be potential voters for a Broadcast ballot-based poll frequenting this thread? It's been on the to-do list in the poll organising thread for some time, but the response has mostly been lukewarm over there. Just occurred to me that I never enquired more broadly...

I'd be up for that!

Same!

Def up for a Broadcast poll

Not exactly a huge amount of material to cover, but I'd do it

this is undeniably old broadcast but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LicRs6WXVo

down for a poll

idk how the pollz system works around here but since these new re-re/releases have come out i'd hope some delay is given.

Here is a perfect live performance that was recorded for CBC Radio during the HaHa Sound Tour. They were so special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNnGDzrciw

I like anticipating whether 'Unchanging Window' will be allowed to morph into 'Chord Simple' at length. It's seemingly the dominant live arrangement.

Thanks for the feedback re poll. Sounds like it might be viable after all!

everyone otm on Maida Vale - so great and the Lights Out just stopped me dead.

I've liked Broadcast for what, 20, 25 years now & it's always been a drifting in-and-out thing for me - always approving, occasionally loving tracks. But in the last few weeks they've become all I want to listen to - the soundworld I suddenly need - like I'm hearing just how good they were for the first time & wondering why I wasn't paying better attention even while having their albums on & just feeling that death should fuck off.

Anyway, I'd vote

I really caught the bug between Haha Sound and Tender Buttons, had thought of them as a kind of alt Stereolab but then realised what a magical thread they were pursuing. Blown sideways by Trish's death and there has been a hole missing from me ever since.

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.