Broadcast & The Focus Group - Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
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Artist: Broadcast & The Focus GroupEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: EP
CD Release Date: 2009-10-27
Music Label: Warp Records
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Free Music Review: One of the most effective psychedelic albums ever made
Hit: 5 Stars
First, I want express how sad I am to find out Trish Keenan has died. There aren't very many women making this kind of music and it really sucks that she's gone. Because most people can't understand psychedelic music, most will never know of this great loss. In my world, this is a more significant death than any of the 27-year-old "rock legends." Unfortunately our society doesn't have the ability to appreciate music that presents a challenge and so only a few cult-followers will keep this music alive for the future generations, who hopefully have more sophisticated mental processes to realize the depth of these albums and hold this band (at least) in the same regard as the 13th Floor Elevators.
In terms of pushing experimental music to the limits while still capturing the beauty of psychedelia, Broadcast is in their own league. Idiots will hear the soft and lovely vocals and immediately classify them as a 60's throw-back, but those who have more experience with strange frequencies and well-layered music should pick up on an advanced sonic sound-scape transcending almost all other psychedelic bands prior...Compare this with anything from the 60s and you find that no band focused more on creating overt psychedelic music. The only band from that era who focused solely on brain-changing, psychedelic music were the 13th Floor Elevators. The Beatles only made a handful of trippy songs. The Doors relied too heavily on dark bluesy sounds and were better suited for whiskey drinking. The Beach Boys dabbled, but while Brian perfected his harmonies they never came close to the level of weirdness of today's drug-inspired bands. The Rolling Stones tried, Jones died, and they never reached their full potential in this genre...they failed. The Velvet Underground made amazing albums, pleasant to listen to while high, but hardly threatening on a psychological level. Most other bands, while admired in their time, sound dated today and cannot induce such heightened states of consciousness as caused by bands who are able to use modern equipment and production techniques.
This album, while being called an e.p. for some reason, is almost 50 minutes long, so it is no different than a full length. If all you have heard from this band is Haha Sound, for example, you might want to be prepared for something much more abstract and much less focused in terms of pop-mentality. They do manage to throw in some pretty melodies, but the focus here is on "witch cults of the radio age." It's a weird album, to say the least. Maybe not something you can listen to in your car and bob along with your head. I won't shy away from the truth concerning this album: this album should be listened to at night, with all the lights off, a dozen candles lit, a bottle of wine, marijuana, mushrooms/l.s.d., under the covers, with the music turned up very loud, enjoying the trip between satanic-cult subliminal messages and the voice of an angel, getting completely lost and ripped from what's "normal." As with previous albums, they use dark and threatening instrumentation and noise contrasted by rapid shifts into innocent-sounding lullabies. This album however is much more jumpy. Just when you think they are going to break into a moment of concise pop the sounds collapse and they change direction, creating a perfect soundtrack to a schizoid-paranoid dream. While some of the effects and methods used might not jump out at you while sober, there appear to be secret occult chants, scary frequencies, hidden messages, and possible brain-washing attempts if you are able to really get inside the sound and dissect it. Almost nothing outside of the "elephant 6 collective" (Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples In Stereo, Circulatory System) offers unashamed, 100% melt-your-brain-psychedelic drug/meditation music. Broadcast, along with a few others, are able to offer this joy.
I listened to this album quite a few times last summer while expanding my consciousness and it brought me great pleasure. This album isn't for beginners. This is for the kind of people who could have hung with people like Timothy Leary and William Burroughs. This is a gift for people who like to push their minds into the higher levels, into a state where the third eye switches to on and all the world becomes a manipulatable illusion. Great fun.
Thanks for the trip Trish. You will always be alive in spirit and in the waves coming from my speakers.
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BROADCAST are back with a new unique psychedelic collaborative album with renowned graphic and musical artist JULIAN HOUSE (aka THE FOCUS GROUP) titled, 'Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age'. BROADCAST (Trish Keenan & James Cargill), have collaborated with renowned designer Julian House (aka The Focus Group) to create a unique album pulling in both collaborators' unique sense of melody and love of library music and film scores. After a long hiatus, it can be said with confidence that Broadcast's return is greeted with much anticipation. From their beginnings in 1995, Broadcast's aesthetic has remained a combination of their love for film, library music and electronics with psych-pop colour - a style which has gained them an enthusiastic fanbase including musicians such as FLYING LOTUS, STEREOLAB, GRIZZLY BEAR, ATLAS SOUND (who they are now sharing a co-headline tour of the US) and DANGERMOUSE. Their music is also a popular choice for film and TV, feat. on the soundtracks of many films as well as TV shows such as "The L-Word", "Skins" and "CSI".Alternative Rock Music CDs
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