New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

i NEED the rest of the EP, but i'm gonna buy it when it comes out defo. up well up for either the ULU or Brighton gig too. i love Trish.

Sheffield? I thought they were from Birmingham area...

Sorry, I just feel that since I'm currently living in Brum that I should get very annoyed about that incorrect geographical accreditation.

captured under hypnosis
faster and faster images

can a reading be obtained
all this mystery explained
i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

logic offers no defence
underneath this influence

why disguise our ...? ...?
holds emotion in suspense
i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

caught between the day and night
...?

i'm in orbit
held by magnets
under forcefields
so much closer than love

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i'm sure i'm wrong somewhere...

But shit, it is good. Really, really good. My feet haven't involuntarily tapped like that in sometime...

In travelling on the tube, zipping through the stations and staring at the pictures of the POWs, that is what struck me about the new Broadcast was that the songs speed by; that need for speed. The violence could come from my own thoughts about the war and the general anxiety. Broadcast make something new their own.

Her voice is working beautifully, too, singing to someone about half a yard to the left of wherever it is you're looking. I was gonna listen to the Donnas album, but this has just overtaken it big time.

2003. It is a fucking top year (music wise).

Thank you so, so much.

(Me no like Ladytron 'cept for one single when they do an ace rip off of the Human League :-P )

sigh, isn't it GREAT?!

I feel the need to convert the whole world to this one. I'm in orrr-bit...

I'm gonna write something big on this, I fear. Even if I can't make out the lyrics you can't make out either.

The EP will be followed by the band's second proper LP, 'hahasound', due for release in August. The Birmingham group's acclaimed debut album 'The Noise Made By People' was released in 2000.

Broadcast play a string of US dates in May before commencing their UK tour. The dates are:

Glasgow Academy 3 (May 27)
Manchester Hop and Grape (May 28)
Cambridge Boatrace (May 29)
London ULU (May 30)
Brighton Pavilion (June 1)

Support comes from Imitation Electric Piano, except for Brighton Pavilion which is co-headlined with Alfie. The Projects also provide support at the ULU show.

For ticket availability

i will be at the ULU gig defo - got ticket already, see you down the front for a good heavy session of, erm, sage nodding

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.

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.

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.

"we want to re-enter life"

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?

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.

^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.

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