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Track Listings
| 1. Intro | |||
| 2. Magnetic Tales | |||
| 3. The Be Colony | |||
| 4. How Do You Get Along Sir | |||
| 5. Will You Read Me | |||
| 6. Reception | |||
| 7. Group Therapy | |||
| 8. Quiet Moment, A | |||
| 9. I See So I See So | |||
| 10. You Must Wake | |||
| 11. One Million Years Ago | |||
| 12. Seancing Song, A | |||
| 13. Oh You Chatterbox | |||
| 14. Drug Party | |||
| 15. Libra The Mirror's Minor Self | |||
| 16. Love's Long Listen In | |||
| 17. We Are After All Here | |||
| 18. Medium's High, A | |||
| 19. Ritual | |||
| 20. Looking In | |||
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Here, then, Broadcast’s Trish Keenan and James Cargill link up with Julian House, co-founder of Ghost Box, graphic designer and the man behind The Focus Group for a collaborative project steeped in hazy revisions of the not-so-distant past. The Focus Group’s primary raw material has always been library music: that atmospheric, lightly experimental, always evocative soundtrack fare that typically scored documentaries, children’s programmes and public information films throughout the 70s and early 80s. So, …Witch Cults Of The Radio Age forsakes much of the rhythmic drive common to Broadcast albums in favour of a more patchwork affair – 23 tracks called things like Mr Beard You Chatterbox and Libra, The Mirror’s Minor Self, mostly between one- and three-minutes long, that constitute a bewildering box of delights. Gurgling synthesisers, ringing chimes, Radiophonic echoes, deranged pipe melodies, sudden bursts of funky drumming, wandering woodwind, reel-to-reel tape experimentation… the only common thread to cling on to is Trish Keenan’s clear vocal, and cling you do.
Does it work? Yes, with reservations. Loosely speaking, in the past, Broadcast have always done two things well – drifting, otherworldly pop songs and propulsive, drum-heavy krautrock. This collaboration does neither, opting instead for dislocation, ambience and enigma. But like a strange mirage glimpsed in the depths of the English countryside, …Witch Cults Of The Radio Age is laced with enough wonder and intrigue to keep you coming back. It doesn’t make perfect sense, but the sense of mystery is a key in itself. --Louis Pattison
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Customer Reviews
I can't really think of much to compare this to. It seems closest in spirit to the mad collage of 'The Faust Tapes' or the experimental sides of 'Tago Mago', or in TV terms something like 'Children of the Stones'. The overall experience is like entering the state between being awake and 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 and '70s childrens' TV, horror film soundtracks and electronica, this could be up your street.
It's true that apart from a couple of sections, nothing in 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.
For a lot of the record, normal song structures are dismissed to leave a lot of the familiar Broadcast sounds bobbing about in a wash of unfamiliar samples and 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.
I like this.
You can definitely tell The Focus Group (i.e. Julian House, the graphic designer) are very much involved in this EP as Trish and 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 nostalgia in some of the weirdest ways, a great story driven album that takes you to places without the need of lyrics or sense of time and 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.
WOW! What can be said - this is amazing! I admit to being new to Broadcast's sounds, let alone in collaboration with The Focus Group, and it... Read more
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