Pre-Release
- 28 SEPT 2024
- 14 Songs
- Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006 - 2009 · 2024
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
- The Noise Made By People · 2000
Essential Albums
- 2005
- The '60s meet the distant future on the bewitching debut album from these Stereolab protégés. While their analogue electronics and quavering sound effects suggest the avant-garde output of Delia Derbyshire and The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, their songwriting evokes classic Brill Building pop. The result is an unusually gentle take on psychedelia, where medieval madrigals meet Mellotron ("Echo's Answer"), and harpsichords punctuate vintage synthesisers ("Come On Let's Go”). Trish Keenan's flawless vocals provide the irresistible through line—and a cool, calming presence even when the music's at its most abstracted.
Music Videos
- 2003
Artist Playlists
- Dig into their spooky, post-rock sound from the inside out.
Singles & EPs
About Broadcast
Led by James Cargill and Trish Keenan, Broadcast blended early electronic music, psychedelia, and '60s pop into retro-futuristic, innovative, and often deeply moving music. Though their inspirations spanned obscure film soundtracks, library music, and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Cargill and Keenan's artistic vision was unmistakable -- as was Keenan's voice, which flickered effortlessly between detachment and vulnerability. On 2000's debut album, The Noise Made by People, they contrasted sci-fi atmospheres and pop melodies with a jazzy elegance, but the influence of Czech film scores heightened the mysterious beauty of 2003's Haha Sound. With 2005's Tender Buttons, Broadcast pared down to the duo of Keenan and Cargill and honed their music to its essence, and shifted gears again on 2009's trippy, sample-heavy EP Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age. Keenan's untimely 2011 death effectively ended Broadcast, with 2013's soundtrack Berberian Sound Studio providing a bittersweet epilogue.
- ORIGIN
- Birmingham, England
- FORMED
- 1995
- GENRE
- Alternative