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Broadcast return with a unique psychedelic collaborative mini-album with
renowned graphic and musical artist Julian House aka The Focus Group.
Broadcast (Trish Keenan and James Cargill) have collaborated with renowned designer Julian House (aka The Focus Group) to create a unique mini-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 Broadcasts return is greeted with much anticipation.
From their beginnings in Birmingham in 1995, Broadcasts 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, Tim Gane from Stereolab, Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and DangerMouse (who used a
Broadcast sample taken from Poem Of Dead Song on the DM & Gemini
album Ghetto Pop Life). Their music is also a popular choice for film and TV, featuring on the soundtracks of Ma Femme est une Actrice, 21 and Morvern Callar, as well as TV shows such as The L-Word, Skins and CSI.
Long time friend of the band and renowned artwork designer Julian House
(aka The Focus Group) is co-founder of the Ghost Box label, which in the
last few years has birthed a cult of its own with releases reflecting its creators obsessions with library music, English folklore and the eerie feel of vintage programmes for schools and colleges. His music as The Focus Group offers some of the most enchanting distillations of all the above, instantly complementing Broadcasts own long-standing aesthetic. As well as being a long-term visual collaborator with the band, House has provided visuals and artwork for Stereolab amongst many others.
The albums release will be teased with a number of assets including
specially commissioned video pieces, additional audio segments and samplers and a full service to media. In addition the band are embarking on a month-long US tour in October, co-headlining with Atlas Sound.
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