Customer Reviews
Modern Psychedelia(?) - By: A. P. Wheway, 04 Dec 2009 
After giving this release a few listens, I have to say it is one of the most interesting new things I have heardin a while. With so much currently released music just a retread of something I'm old enough to have experienced 20-30 years ago, it's refreshing to find a group that are trying to push a few boundaries.
I can't really think of much to compare this to. It seems closestin spirit to the mad collage of 'The Faust Tapes' or the experimental sides of 'Tago Mago', orin TV terms something like 'Children of the Stones'. The overall experience is like entering the state between being awake & asleep where real things acquire a dreamlike haze.
Certainly anyone wanting a CD of tunes is going to be disappointed, but if you have a mild obsession with '60s & '70s childrens' TV, horror film soundtracks & electronica, this could be up your street.
It's true that apart from a couple of sections, nothingin this winds up into anything you could call a song as such, but there is a strangely evocative feel to the piece. It sounds like nothing less than someone's (slightly spooky) subconscious, which to me is the essence of psychedelia (as opposed to blues played through a wah-wah). I hope to hear more like this.
Broadcast FTW - By: C. Hughes, 01 Nov 2009 If you like Broadcast you'll like this. More importantly, if you like Broadcast's weirder, darker side, you'll like this.
I like this.
You can definitely tell The Focus Group (i.e. Julian House, the graphic designer) are very much involvedin this EP as Trish & James are.
The album artwork by Julian House is a visual glimpse into what's expected. Fantastic.
A fantastical weird blend of ephemera noises that evokes nostalgiain some of the weirdest ways, a great story driven album that takes you to places without the need of lyrics or sense of time & place. Witches, haunting, witchcraft, horror, vintage, noise, sinister, radio, alluring, colourful, grain, collage, eerie etc etc.
A 'must have' as they say, for any music lover of an open mind.
I just don't get it..... - By: M. Stevens, 30 Oct 2009 
The music press over the past month has raved about this, & I cannot understand why. As I sayin the title, I just do not get it.
It appears to be 29 tracks of random samples with some fairly loose musical interludes; I was expecting something along the lines of the excellent Boards of Canada albums, but at least they have some element of musical basis & some form of structure; this to me appears totally "random". Admittedly, it is not the sort of album I can readily make comparisons to elsewhere, even other Broadcast albums do not compare to this. Just as you think a structure has arrived, it goes off on a complete tangent.
Not one for me, although their The Future Crayon is!
Broadcast Unfocussed - By: Bettarn, 28 Oct 2009 This is great stuff. I don't know anything about the collaboration, but it's produced something that takes the more experimental moments from the band & experiments with them further.
For a lot of the record, normal song structures are dismissed to leave a lot of the familiar Broadcast sounds bobbing aboutin a wash of unfamiliar samples & ideas.
I reckon if you like most of what Broadcast have done so far, you'll probably have no trouble with this. But don't expect a 'standard' Broadcast record (if there is such a thing).
Yes... great stuff.
