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Format

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  WARPLP106RLong Player  £20.00

Label

Warp

Broadcast

HaHa Sound

'Haha Sound' is the band's second album from 2003 and it steadfastly continues their mission to walk the tightrope between wilfully obscure experimental sounds and melodious accessible pop fusing obscure cinematic influences with the kind of sounds others would try and lose analogue synths grainy feedback scratchy electronica etc Via these ensnaring soundscapes the band veer mellifluously from the fairytale escapism of 'Ominous Cloud' to rhythmically pulsing material like 'Pendulum' which sounds like Kraftwerk colliding with their fellow Teutonic innovators Can via a host of carnivalesque atmospheres and hallofmirrors style contours There's a spot of darkness and contrivance to prevent us getting too comfortable but Broadcast still make us feel as if we're looking at our own world like aliens peering through a sonic goldfish bowl with everything seeming familiar but surreally warped and alluringly weightless With Keegan's glacially delivered vocals providing the purewhite icing on the crazy cake 'Haha Sound' is a consistently beguiling album and is certainly no laughing matter LP Vinyl repress of the second album by Broadcast originally released in 2003 Comes in a 60sstyle tipon sleeve plus download card

Tracklist

• 1. Colour Me In
  2. Pendulum
  3. Before We Begin
  4. Valerie
  5. Man Is Not A Bird
  6. Minim
  7. Lunch Hour Pops
  8. Black Umbrellas
  9. Ominous Cloud
  10. Distorsion
  11. Oh How I Miss You
  12. The Little Bell
  13. Winter Now
  14. Hawk