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Broadcast | Format: Audio CD

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Audio CD (11 Aug 2003)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Warp
ASIN: B00009V8WD
Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 59,856 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Birmingham-based-trio Broadcast (Trish Keenan, James Cargill and Tim Felton) have carved a nice little niche with their intriguing brand of pop music. HaHa Sound is the band's second album 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 fairy-tale 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 hall-of-mirrors 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 pure-white icing on the crazy cake, Ha Ha Sound is a consistently beguiling album--and is certainly no laughing matter. --Paul Sullivan

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5.0 out of 5 stars Space pop at its best 27 Nov 2003

By B. Lasnier VINE™ VOICE

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If a second album is often deemed as difficult, with Broadcast, it started right from their first. Three years in the making, following problems with producers, The Noise Made By People finally came out in 2000, almost four years after the band released their first single.
Formed in 1995 in Birmingham by Trisha Keenan, James Cargill, Tim Felton and Roj Stevens, Broadcast rapidly got associated with Stereolab and Pram, mostly due to their use of analogue synthesisers and their take on experimental pop. The band’s first single, Accidentals, was released a couple of years later on Wurlitzer Jukebox, with the subsequent two, Living Room and The Book Lovers, being released that same year on Duophonic Super 45s. Signed by Warp shortly after, the three EPs were collected on Work & Non-Work. On The Noise Made By People, Broadcast seemed to leave behind the unsettling atmospheres of their previous EPs to focus on tight, well written pop songs, albeit their influences, firmly set in the psychedelic area of early electronic experimentation – they name the Velvet Underground and the unique album by The United States Of America as main influences – still showed much leftfield attitude. Songs such as Unchanging Window, Come On Let’s Go or Look Outside especially demonstrated a great maturity in term of finely balancing uncompromising sonic treatment and beautiful melodies. More consistent than Work & Non-Work, this first proper album, and the live performances that followed, established the band as one of the most interesting British acts around.
Mostly recorded at Cargill’s house towards the end of last year, Haha Sound arrives hot on the heels of Pendulum, first EP in two and a half years, and a string of live dates in the USA and Europe.... On this album, the band, now a trio following the departure of Roj Stevens in 2002, continue to expand on their sound, bringing more ambient noises into the na�ve melodic scope and destabilising further their perversely innocent songs. The album opens with the short and poetic Colour Me In, on which Trish’s voice appear as bitter-sweet as ever on a bed of old-fashioned electronic noises, before heading down to business with the magnificent Pendulum, already held by some as one of their best songs to date. With a distinctive mid-to-late sixties experimental feel to it, it is actually one of the most straightforward songs produced by Broadcast so far. Relying more and more on cinematographic references, the band’s inspiration for Valerie is partly to be found in the little known Czech horror / fairytale film Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders. The lullaby-like melody progresses over soft guitars, defying the threatening underlying noises growing in the background. Alternating between songs and a few instrumentals strategically placed, Haha Sound appears more spontaneous and lighter than its predecessor. if the difficulties encountered during the recording of The Noise… affected the atmosphere of the album, this new opus benefits of an easier process. The melodies seem simpler and less contrived, and despite the more complex soundscapes developed here, the resulting general mood of this record is definitely less tormented. Songs such as Before We Begin, Lunch Hour Pops or Ominous Clouds are precious little pop jewels, beautifully served by Keenan’s falsely innocent lyrics and nonchalant vocals, while The Little Bell, one of the most disarmingly charming moments on this album, echoes the poetic touch of Colour Me In. On Minim, Black Umbrellas or Oh How I Miss You, the Broadcast of the early days filters through once more, reminding that if the band might have progressed enormously since, they are still very much in touch with their origins.
Broadcast’s sophisticated vision of pop music is not as elitist as it may seem. Fruit of a much less complicated creative process, Haha Sound is far more opened and airy than its predecessor, demonstrating that Broadcast can also have some fun. Read more ›

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love that haha sound 7 Jun 2008

By Demob Happy

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I was initially wary of this band and its art school contemporaries (see Stereolab) but this really is something special. Out of the often-abrasive acoustics and kaleidoscopic aural sludge evolves melodies that are sweet and eerie in equal parts. Combining live-instrumentation with fairly glitch-free but sometimes punishing and industrial soundscapes, Broadcast's album provides an unlikely missing link between the Doris' forgotten `Did You Give the World Some Love Baby', Add N to X and the Cocteau Twins.

Opener `Colour Me In' is all distorted retro, like playing Nico-era Velvet Underground underwater on an old 78rpm turntable. `Pendulum' is an electroclash stomper sang in deadpan, faux-na�ve vocals, a trick winningly repeated on the rollicking, shimmering `Man is Not a Bird'. `Before we Begin' is dream pop akin to the Cocteau Twins (but sung in a real language), buoyed by massive reverb effects on the live drumming. Another highlight is `Ominous Clouds', a doo-wop melody to rival any other set over surprisingly effective metalic buzzes and hums and a shuffling rhythm. The album tails away somewhat towards the end with some slightly more meandering material, but the overall effect of the album is one of great achievement - one of the finest of 2003.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars lush glacier days 23 Dec 2003

By A Customer

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Gorgeous sounds from our Birminghamese Broadcasters once again. Stunning icy vocals and beautiful lyrics such as "I will not lament with the sky; no longer feel night on the inside" make this album a mixture of poetry and melty sounds, heartbeat drums, and clinks. Broadcast have the rare ability to create unusual soundscapes of ethereal dreaminess populated by thoughtful lyrics. Highlights on HaHa Sound include "Man is not a Bird" and "Lunch Hour Pops". If you like things like Four Tet, Fridge, Mum, Stereolab or Tortoise, then you will enjoy this exquisite album. Really something special.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A refreshingly beautiful and dreamy sound 4.5 29 July 2011

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From a new fan of Broadcast:

This album has definitely grown on me on second playing - just listening to track 4 `Valerie' as we sit here - wow... it's almost too much ecstasy to endure... reminds me of a tune... with the `lyric' pa-ra-pa-pampam' - help me - I'm adrift! I'm well away to this tune, I can tell you! Beautiful! Colour Me In and The little Bell are the other highlights of the album for me - both added straight to my favourites! Well, on a few listens (and I'm sure it'll deserve more) there isn't a single dud track here, with beautiful female vocals, drifting dreamy sounds, tempo changes, lovely lyrics, sunny electro-psyche-tinted sound-collages.

My only minute gripe is that (and I say this having now heard the other Broadcast albums) there isn't the sheer mountain of creative variety as found on their collaborative `Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age' album, but, like I say, that's only a minor thing, and only because I like the weirder, less conventional pop-song orientated stuff that grows in the music world. This is well worth a buy, for all the reasons I and the other reviewers here can think of!

Sounds like Soundcarriers, HNIA, Mum or Stereolab, for comparison. Cocteau Twins? Maybe, but without that bands own signature `language', and somehow, this seems more `earthy'.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Consistently high quality 8 May 2011

By Jason

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Broadcast have a very distinct sound. It is electronic and vaguely 60s-ish. One inspiration is 1960s American psychedelic music (think Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"). Another is the haunting film soundtracks of that era (think "The Ipcress File" or "Get Carter"). Added to this interesting mix there is one crucial, magic ingredient. That is the beautifully pure voice of Trish Keenan, Broadcast's vocalist.

Broadcast connoisseurs detect various differences between their five albums, though frankly their sound didn't change all that much. Which is just as well, as it is impossible to improve on perfection. "Ha-Ha Sound", their third album, maintained the consistently high quality. It is a bit more jaunty and upbeat than the two previous albums, at times sounding a bit like "The Magic Roundabout". But this is still slow and soothing chill-out music. These songs are like beautiful lullabyes.

Tragically Trish Keenan died suddenly in January, after contracting swine flu while on a tour of Australia. The world has lost an incredible musical talent. I would not be surprised if, 10 or 20 years from now, Broadcast will be venerated as one of the great, groundbreaking acts of the early 21st Century. They certainly were.

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