Pre-Release
- 28 SEPT 2024
- 14 Songs
- The Noise Made By People · 2000
- Tender Buttons · 2005
- Tender Buttons · 2005
- Tender Buttons · 2005
- The Future Crayon · 1998
- Berberian Sound Studio · 2013
- The Noise Made By People · 2000
- The Noise Made By People · 2000
- Haha Sound · 2003
- Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age · 2009
Essential Albums
- 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
- 2003
Artist Playlists
- Dig into their spooky, post-rock sound from the inside out.
Singles & EPs
Compilations
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, Keenan and Cargill pared their music down 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, but archival releases such as 2024's Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 and Distant Call burnished their reputation for affecting, creative music.
- ORIGIN
- Birmingham, England
- FORMED
- 1995
- GENRE
- Alternative