Read Nick Neyland’s review of Broadcast’s soundtrack to the film Berberian Sound Studio, a project that began before singer Trish Keenan’s 2011 passing.
In our appreciation of Broadcast singer Trish Keenan– who passed away on Friday at age 42– Jess Harvell writes, “the world lost a major fantasist, an unassuming creator of dreamy other worlds.”
Discussing Broadcast’s legacy, he goes on: “They had little to do with the retail-friendly post-Portishead brigade or the soporific surface-level ‘cool’ of any lounge-pop revivalists. If anything they were far closer to labelmates Boards of Canada, another group using warped, wobbly, sometimes even grimy electronics to evoke the unreality of the everyday, the loveliness of supposedly artificial sound, the supernatural qualities of circuit-based music.”
Broadcast’s “Papercuts” video from 2000’s The Noise Made by People.
"I think the evocation of memory in our music could be seen as the residue of imaginary time travel. You can either go forward or back. You go back in order to change something in the now, to redesign the course of events for personal reasons. When you go back to a previous musical time you’re trying to recall a memory that never happened to you, that is not stored, so it would make sense that you hear a fuzzy dissolving sense of time and place as you call it."
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Trish Keenan, from a Wire interview with Broadcast.
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Broadcast’s Trish Keenan passed away this morning due to complications with pneumonia, according to Warp Records. Click here for more. (Photo by Shannon McClean.)
