BROADCAST & THE FOCUS GROUP LP Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age -Warp NM

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CONDITION OF COVER  ............ NM


CONDITION OF DISC ................. NM



 BROADCAST & THE FOCUS GROUP LP INVESTIGATE WITCH CULTS OF THE RADIO AGE (Warp Records WARPLP189) Released 2009.


   Original UK release in black textured inner sleeve. Attractive custom-designed labels. Great condition: no visual evidence that this record has ever been played. Superlative design & cover art throughout. (Etched Matrix Number: "85055 1A  WARPLP 189").


Album Notes
Recorded 01/08/2009. Broadcast's music has always been a little unearthly, so BROADCAST & THE FOCUS GROUP INVESTIGATE WITCH CULTS OF THE RADIO AGE isn't so much a departure as it is an inspired homage to their influences. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS and its alternately innocent and menacing soundtrack inspired the band years before the movie was rediscovered. The whimsy and strangely familiar feel of '60s and '70s library music could also be heard in their music from the beginning, but never more clearly than on this mini-album. Broadcast's more esoteric side is heightened by the Focus Group, whose Ghost Box label is ground zero for the evocatively named "hauntology" micro-genre, which digs deep into vintage electronics and notions of what people thought the future would be like -- two things Broadcast have always done, even if they're not explicitly part of the hauntology crowd. INVESTIGATE WITCH CULTS's highly detailed, evocative miniatures replace TENDER BUTTONS' stark clarity with softly busy collages full of literal and figurative layers. Analog synths, distant beats, guitar arpeggios, and clouds of Trish Keenan's vocals flit in and out of snippets like "Will You Read Me" in a gently disorienting and deeply trippy fashion. Yet the feel goes beyond being merely druggy, although the funky "How Do You Get Along Sir?" and self-explanatory "Drug Party" certainly imply chemical enhancement. Most tracks radiate a spectral purity, or suggest something as hallucinatory as ghosts taking drugs. But while INVESTIGATE WITCH CULTS has a few spooky moments, most notably "Libra, the Mirror's Minor Self," it's more charmingly odd than unnerving, with the dusty warmth of mellowing in an attic somewhere. Not so much a soundtrack to a film that was never made as it is music that demands images to accompany it, this is a welcome return after the four years of silence that followed TENDER BUTTONS.

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Track Listing
1. Intro/Magnetic Tales
2. Be Colony, The
3. How Do You Get Along Sir?
4. Will You Read me
5. Reception/Group Thearpy
6. Quiet Moment, A
7. I See, So I See So
8. You Must Wake
9. One Million Years Ago
10. Seancing Song, A
11. Mr Beard, You Chatterbox
12. Drug Party
13. Libra, the Mirror's Minor Self
14. Love's Long Listen-in
15. We Are After All Here
16. Medium's High, A
17. Ritual/Looking In
18. Make My Sleep His Song
19. Royal Chant
20. What I Saw
21. Let it Begin/Oh Joy
22. Round and Round and Round
23. Be Colony/Dashing Home/What on Earth Took You?



 

 

  COVER - NM

  No seam splits, stains, marks, smudges, ink spills, tears, writing, tape, stickers, puncture holes, water damage, cut-out marks, price tags, or color fading. No ring wear or speckling. Illustration & print are sharp and are free of sun washout. Spine looks great: print is fully readable. Slight corner banging. Label is free of wear and damage. Sharp cut holes with faint spindle flecks. 

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