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  • Audio CD (20 Mar 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warp
  • ASIN: B00004NJMI
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,267 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Long Was The Year 3:38£0.69
Listen  2. Unchanging Window 3:49£0.69
Listen  3. Minus One 2:02£0.69
Listen  4. Come On Let's Go 3:16£0.69
Listen  5. Echo's Answer 3:12£0.69
Listen  6. Tower Of Our Tuning 4:30£0.69
Listen  7. Paper Cuts 4:32£0.69
Listen  8. You Can Fall 4:24£0.69
Listen  9. Look Outside 3:53£0.69
Listen10. Until Then 3:51£0.69
Listen11. City In Progress 3:37£0.69
Listen12. Dead The Long Year 4:46£0.69

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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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Like all the best groups, Broadcast exists in a bubble, oblivious to passing trends. Mixing dusty old musical instruments with the latest technology, they sound as if they're gliding across the galaxy in a second-hand spaceship. Lazy comparisons to Stereolab (on who's Duophonic label Broadcast released two 1997 singles) are only relevant in terms of both groups' almost scientific approach to music making. It's obvious that the long gestation period of this debut album paid off. THE NOISE MADE BY PEOPLE is at once strange and beautiful. Trish Keenan's clear voice slices through the psychedelicwaltzes and eerie soundscapes with a strident simplicity. The jaunty "Come On Let's Go" is a distant relative of PetulaClark's "Downtown," and an obvious pop highlight of the album. But it's in the dark corners where some of the most innovative and melodic moments occur. "Echo's Answer" is hauntingly sparse and unexpected. Ennio Morricone is an obvious inspiration, and this partly explains Broadcast's knack for imaginative arrangements. THE NOISE MADE BY PEOPLE is destined to become a cult classic. Don't miss out.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, 29 Mar 2002
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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.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An undiscovered masterpiece.., 10 Nov 2001
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!!! I knew straightaway that I had to get some material...but it wasn't until about a month ago when I finally sampled 'The Noise Made by People'. I love it, all my friends love it, my parents hate it (and that's always a positive sign, isn't it???). Their fusion of modern-day electronica, west coast psychedelica and obvious homages to Ennio Morricone and John Barry is pure genius. You think that they don't mix, like techno and country music don't mix....but it worked for Alabama 3....So right now, I'm working on tracking down all their earlier releases, before they were signed to Warp. Trust me, 'The Noise Made by People' is one of 2000's undiscovered masterpieces.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Writing for pleasure, 21 Nov 2000
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Occupying ground 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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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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... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 autochild2

3.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars China Shopping Channel
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
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