- Audio CD (1 Jan 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Warp
- ASIN: B00004NJMI
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 18,979 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Back in 1997, Warp Records released a quirky mini-album of rare material from its newest signings, a little known experimental pop band from Birmingham called Broadcast. Eyebrows were raised. Why had Warp--a hard-edged techno label famed for its avant-garde output from electronic pioneers like Aphex Twin signed this quirky, retro- obsessed West-Midlands five-piece? The reason is simple: Broadcast are a very talented band. This much is proved by their brilliant debut, The Noise Made By People. The album's skewed electronic pop and retro-futurism most resembles the analogue styling of Stereolab and original Krautrock musicians such as Can and Neu! Yet Broadcast's sound is wonderfully unique; an enchanting mixture of analogue synth sounds and west coast psychedelia fused with nineties electronica and indie-pop sensibilities. With the addition of haunting and occasionally chilling vocals from singer Trish Keenan, the effect is at times mesmerising. The Noise Made By People is an eerie, uplifting and enchanting debut album from one of Britain's best-kept secrets. --Matt Anniss
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Around the release of this album, Broadcast were keen to demystify the process of music-making, describing it as mathematics, and just a matter of chords. Despite this scientific approach to an 'art' form popularly perceived as organic and untutored, Broadcast don't half work some magic within the equations.
Their careful grasp of song structure means that every song is a near-perfect mix of haunting melodic pop and the experimentalism for which Warp records are better known. Lazy comparisons have been made with Stereolab, but the faintly jazzy, saturated film-soundtrack pop Broadcast make is largely unique. Particular standouts are 'Unchanging Window', where Trish Keenan's dispassionate vocals suit the detached yet oddly human atmosphere of the music perfectly, and the magnificent 'Look Outside', a three-and-a-half minute epic where not a note is out of place.
The best thing about perfectionism is that, now and again, its results are perfect. 'The Noise Made By People' is such an occurrence, and constitutes a compulsory purchase.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Occupying space somewhere between the metronomic underground of Stereolab and Portishead's cinematic ambience, Broadcast's long-awaited first 'proper' LP is a delight. Its songs are characterised by an eerie, Joe Meek-ian production (Echo's Answer, Papercuts) and '60s-pop approach (Come On Let's Go) that never sounds contrived or strained. Indeed, despite their evident influences, The Noise... is an LP that, in the year 2000, succeeds brilliantly in sounding quite like nothing else.
Truly, a joy.
Truly, a joy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Not trying to sound passe or anything as i'm sure that by now you're already informed on the general consensus but i will be honest to say that this CD put quite simply contains my all time favourite song - Until Then - for me it is a song that knocked Wandering Star (Portishead - also awesome) out of the park i've listened to the song and the album so many times that it has worn and certain tracks won't play. I implore all fans of music to purchase this CD quite simply it is a masterclass in emotive lyrics juxtaposing a soft industrial sound.
Ultimately at this price it is nearly the definition of value for money. As an album it may not be perfect, but, it raises the standard to which others must compete. Finally for an atmospheric, unique and altogether enjoyable auditory experience The Noise Made By People can't fail to deliver.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A great album by a great band
I'd better get the superlatives out the way to begin with. This album is suberb, highly-recommended and a must-buy. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Jason
A classic
Wow! What an album!
Beautifully atmospheric, wonderful vocals, hooks that stay in your head for hours afterwards, this is a coherent work of art that I just want to hear again... Read more
Beautifully atmospheric, wonderful vocals, hooks that stay in your head for hours afterwards, this is a coherent work of art that I just want to hear again... Read more
Published 15 months ago by R. Jones
DISTURBINGLY BEAUTIFUL
Like contemporaries (and occasional collaborators) Stereolab, Birmingham-based Broadcast are unconcerned with being liked - they simply get on with it, creating unique and... Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2009 by Kona Fish
haunting gem
Broadcast make consistently beautiful music that seems to drift from our collective memory of a monochrome past. This is my personal favourite of theirs. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2008 by Stephen Otoole
Sparse, but beguiling.
I bought this for 'Paper Cuts' which appeared on Warp's anniversary DVD. The sound is esoteric and is the kind of abstracted fifties-style noodling that might just annoy you at... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2005 by "circustown"
A real slow burner
When I first put this on I hated it apart from one song, Come On Lets Go... so i only played that one. Then I put it on again one day and left it running. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2004 by J SMITH
As music to show off with, it ain't bad
This reminds me of Air, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Ennio Morricone Brian Eno and even Clinic, who all do this weird, ambient malarky better. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2002
An undiscovered masterpiece..
I had heard of Warp Records already, but it wasn't until All Tomorrows Parties 2001 when I first heard these guys.....their live set just blew me away!!! Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2001 by Little Nemo (littlenemo212@aol.com)
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After a album compilation, Work & Non Work, released on Warp two and a half years ago, and a long silence, Broadcast and their china shop are back with their first proper... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2000
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