Broadcast (are really, really good!)

[Head Gardener]

Trish Keenan would have been 52 today. It makes me more sad than any other death I can think of, with the exception of close friends and family.
Broadcast being amazing on their final tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kt43abEsow&
James, as every year, has posted a rare track today for us desperately soul hungry super-fans: https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast/where-are-you-4-track-demo-2002

thank you for that post PM

[Puce Moment]

Genuinely fucking sad today. This out sads the people's poet and peel combined for me. Ugh.

[Norton Canes]

I think about it more on 11th January, the day she died. Suppose I should be a bit more positive.

[good times]

Have to say, I'm afraid, that on the strength of this album, Vanishing Twin come across as little more than Broadcast copyists. I love bands that share Broadcast's style but they need to have the vision and creativity to take it in new directions, an ability that Vanishing Twin appear to lack.

Instead, for anyone who loves Broadcast I'd recommend the recent eponymous album by Exploded View, fronted by singer-songwriter Anika, who's also worked with Geoff Barrow's Beak> project. Her vocals are very Nico-inflected (to be fair to her she is German) but the music has a far more inventive edge that draws on Broadcast's 'dirtier' sounds without completely imitating their work.

Love Exploded View, perfect fusion of weird Can-style music with interesting vocals (although from the odd spin their second album is rather disappointing by comparison)

I don't get the Stereolab/Broadcast comparisons, they sound nothing alike to me other than having a female singer and some electronic elements. Stereolab seem a lot more straightforward rhythmically and annoyingly twee at times (they do have some bangers though)

Maybe it's based on the first album? I'm only really familiar with Haha Sounds and Tender Buttons which is a bit stupid considering how much I love both those two albums.

[Phil_A]

Ten years yesterday since Trish passed.



I think James uploaded it a while back, but this demo was new to me:

https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast/broadcast-fire-song-demo

[Norton Canes]

Yeah I was going to make a tribute post here, maybe do a best of mix or something, but frankly just thinking about her passing is still too depressing. All the great music we could have had over the last ten years, the gigs, and just still having Trish around. The way she died, I mostly just think, why did it have to be her?

[Brundle-Fly]

I reckon Broadcast would still be a going concern but she would be onto her second solo album by now.

[hummingofevil]

Hi all,

I have been thinking about this all day that there was a great early 2000s audio recording around. I am sure it has been posted here before but to save you looking.

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

She was so fucking great.

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I can't remember where I read it but I read some quote the other day about a culture where there is a concept of two deaths. The first is your actual death and the second one is when the last time someone else thinks about you. I had a wander around the local graveyard on my lunch today listening to The Book Lovers and read a few headstones to keep a few people going in Trish's honour. :)

[hummingofevil]

Just read this thread back. It's a joy (sorry for repeating my exact same anecdote twice). Such a shame that most of the links have disappeared.

[hummingofevil]

One more. I didn't see the link to this above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bObxdPBv5FY

ATP 2001

[jobotic]

Wow, Colour Me In is gorgeous.

[Dirty Boy]

I don't think they have done anything uninteresting or bad... ever

An otherwise embarrassing opening post, but i'm doubling down on this. For me, there's not a single skippable track. Everything they did was at the least very good.

Love Children Of Alice too, anyone know if there's going to be more of that?

[The Mollusk]

An otherwise embarrassing opening post, but i'm doubling down on this. For me, there's not a single skippable track. Everything they did was at the least very good.

I've probably echoed this thought elsewhere in the thread, but you're right. They're certainly one of my favourite bands, not just because they nail an aesthetic so deftly and they placate my anxiety and whisk me off to another fictional time and place pretty much unlike any other musical act, but because of how consistently they do it. Other artists come close - Oneohtrix Point Never, Deerhunter, Aphex Twin - but Broadcast is top of the league. There's not a duff song in their discography, and even with my dismal attention span I don't ever find myself skipping a track to get to another. I invest my faith in them entirely and they succeed every time.

Trish is deeply missed with every soft and ethereal note I hear her sing, and I'll be listening to them forever until I expire myself.

[badaids]

Totally different live to on record, but either way just the best band ever.  There are many bands that imitate them, and I'm glad they do but no-one comes close occupying the ethereal place in the musical Venn Diagram that they do.

Only managed to see them once in 97, when they were supporting Pavement, Gorky's and Mogwai at the Astoria.  I went for the other three bands, but they were the ones that blew me away.

[The Mollusk]

Fuck me that's a lineup! And I'm not just saying that because I'm missing gigs so much I'd pay out the arse to watch a tube station busker fart a rendition of "Brown Eyed Girl" into a megaphone.

[jobotic]

Did they ever do a gig with Stereolab? I'm amazed i haven't seen them, if so.