http://www.warprecords.com

1 Pendulum
2 Small Song IV
3 One Hour Empire
4 Still Feels Like Tears
5 Violent Playground
6 Minus Two

Broadcast are Stereolab's darker cousins, or St. Etienne in
photonegative. Like the `lab, they employ elements of drone-pop with
beautiful, emotionless female vocals. Like St. E's Sarah Cracknell,
singer Trish sounds like Petula Clark--if Clark were a graduate
student immersed in Nietzsche. The band is influenced as much
by `60s pop as they are by the more abstract electronica of Aphex
Twin.

Opening track "Pendulum" is Teutonic dance pop wedded to the warm
static burbles of German IDM act Pole. "Small Song IV" mixes
the `60s combo feel of the Left Bank as retooled by Autechre.

Like Pram (with whom they share a member), Broadcast freely pilfers
soundtrack music and cheesy sci-fi effects. The result is eerie,
rather than arch and kitsch. The music is mysterious and smart,
like the landscapes of the early surrealists.

--Craig L. Gidney