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  WARPLP189RLong Player  £18.00

Label

Warp

Broadcast

Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The New Age

'Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age' is an album collaboration by Broadcast and The Focus Group originally released by Warp Records on October 27 2009 Broadcast's music has always been a little unearthly so 'Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age' isn't so much a departure as it is an inspired homage to their influences Valerie and Her Week of Wonders and its alternately innocent and menacing soundtrack inspired the band years before the movie was rediscovered The whimsy and strangely familiar feel of '60s and '70s library music could also be heard in their music from the beginning but never more clearly than on this minialbum Broadcast's more esoteric side is heightened by the Focus Group whose Ghost Box label is ground zero for the evocatively named hauntology microgenre which digs deep into vintage electronics and notions of what people thought the future would be like two things Broadcast have always done even if they're not explicitly part of the hauntology crowd Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age's highly detailed evocative miniatures replace 'Tender Buttons' stark clarity with softly busy collages full of literal and figurative layers Analog synths distant beats guitar arpeggios and clouds of Trish Keenan's vocals flit in and out of snippets like 'Will You Read Me' in a gently disorienting and deeply trippy fashion Yet the feel goes beyond being merely druggy although the funky 'How Do You Get Along Sir' and selfexplanatory 'Drug Party' certainly imply chemical enhancement LP Vinyl repress of 2009 collaboration between Broadcast and their longtime sleeve designer Julian House also cofounder of the Ghost Box label Comes with a download card A 

Tracklist

• 1. Intro/Magnetic Tales
  2. The Be Colony
  3. How Do You Get Along Sir?
  4. Will You Read Me.
  5. Reception/Group Therapy
  6. A Quiet Moment
  7. I See, So I See So
  8. You Must Wake
  9. One Million Years Ago
  10. A Seancing Song
  11. Oh You Chatterbox
  12. Drug Party
  13. Libra, The Mirror's Minor Self
  14. Love's Long Listen-in
  15. We Are After All Here
  16. A Medium's High
  17. Ritual/Looking In
  18. Make My Sleep His Song
  19. Royal Chant
  20. What I Saw
  21. Let It Begin/Oh Joy
  22. Round And Round And Round
  23. The Be Colony/Dashing Home/What On Earth Took You?