Spanning recordings from 2018 to 2025, 'Archive Vol. 1' is a curated collection of outtakes, alternate versions, and previously unreleased tracks that didn’t find a home on the band’s three studio albums. The band describes the project as “an album that came together almost by accident,” born from revisiting forgotten demos and half-finished ideas that, when assembled, revealed a cohesive and emotionally resonant body of work.

The album features 18 tracks, including fan-favourite live staples and experimental interludes.

With its blend of shoegaze textures, new wave energy, and introspective songwriting, 'Archive Vol. 1' offers a unique glimpse into the creative process behind Pale Blue Eyes’ evolving sound.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I always think it can give you a good impression of a band if you listen to their outtakes as well as their LP's and this one really leaves me thinking 'why would you leave that off?' Ram-packed with moments of divine beauty. Mixed and mastered by Dean Honer.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Park
2. New Boots
3. Daisy
4. This House
5. Signify
6. Don’t Hurry Time

7. Believe It All
8. Records
9. How Long Is Now (Alt Version)
10. Loops
11. Not The End Of The World
12 Outro (Narcissist)

US pioneering triphop downtempo, originally on infamous West Coast label Exist Dance in 94.
Officially re-issued, remastered.

Another essential US 90s bit from Tom Chasteen and Michael Kandel originally on the Exist Dance portfolio. Well ahead of its time, this exposé of ceremonial grade psychedelic nuances featuring South Asian vocal samples interlaced with electronic music production methods takes the originally more fast passed trance-like direction of the label’s first 3 years and re-directs things towards a new more downtempo/trip-hop route. With the BPM counter cruising in the low 100’s steadily throughout the first 3 tracks and ending on a full on ambient beatless 8 minute meditative journey, this EP marks a new aesthetic plateau for the Exist Dance catalogue, with “Cantamilla” even crossing over to Balearic radars and being played by Ibiza legends like Jose Padilla.

“Recorded in Heaven”. Take a trip.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Cantamilla
A2. Mya Yadana (Kin Kin)
B1. Cantamilla (Broadcast Standard)
B2. They Came In Peace (Sea Of Tranquility)

'Night Flight' sees 7 artists reinterpreting 2024's top 5 album 'The Last Flight', taking it to appropriately darker and more electronic places. Remixes come from Gus alt-J, EERA, Hainbach and more, including 3 new versions from PSB leader J. Willgoose, Esq.'s own Late Night Final project.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Was Always Dreaming - Late Night Final Remix
2. Towards The Dawn - Alex Silva Remix
3. The Fun Of It - Gus Alt-J Remix
4. The South Atlantic - Peter Sandberg Remix
5. Electra - Late Night Final Remix
6. Arabian Flight - The KVB Remix
7. Monsoons - EERA Remix
8. A Different Kind Of Love - Hainbach Remix
9. Howland - Late Night Final Remix

Turnend Tapes is back with some superb cuts from Swiss duo Le Lab Registered. With 'CB Music' being previously available only on CD back in 2006 and a host of other unreleased edits and remixes, this is a juicy package of exclusivity and the music is indicative of their experimental, rule-breaking techno sound, full of life and imagination. 'The Pitch' kicks off with rugged drums and haunting synth notes, 'Radio Tirana' then layers spoken words into eerie synth modulations and moody drones and 'CB Music' is a slithering and minimal sound with retro-future chords. 'Broadcast All Electronic' shuts down with another wiry arrangement, bleeps, squeaks and the sound of muffled vocals and radio interference all adding an occult edge.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
"The Pitch" (LW Edit)
"Radio Tirana"
"CB Music"

Side 2
"Broadcast" (SW Edit)
"Broadcast All Electronic"

Pale Blue Eyes release a remix of ‘How Long Is Now’, the first single from new album 'New Place', by legendary ‘spatial landscaper’ Richard Norris on their own Broadcast Recordings label. The original track features on their current ‘New Place’ album released earlier this year.

Richard describes his approach to the track as such:
"As soon as I heard the track I knew I'd approach the mix somewhere along the autobahn, about 3am, with Klaus Dinger trying to overtake on the inside lane. Approaching the speed limit. One for the kosmik and expanded psychonauts."

TRACK LISTING

1. How Long Is Now (Richard Norris Remix)
2. How Long Is Now (Richard Norris Remix Instrumental)

The third album from Pale Blue Eyes is called 'New Place' – invocation of fresh horizons; swapping creamy Devon for the synth central of Sheffield. The album arrives on the back of extensive and emotional transit. For PBE, 2024 started with a wonderful tour of 12 European countries with Slowdive. Over 12,000 kilometres. Snow and deep cold in Norway and Poland. Drought-stricken landscapes in France and Spain. On and on, joyously so. The year’s end brought more movement for the married couple at the core of Pale Blue Eyes, singer and guitarist Matt Board and drummer and synth queen Lucy Board. Sadly, family tragedy catalysed a move from South Devon to South Yorkshire.

“Change is a theme throughout the new album,” says Lucy. “It’s about being in a new place, starting again but reflecting on the journey and what and who got us to this place. It's a celebration of making it to this point and starting again.”

That new start is fully manifested on Pale Blue Eyes’ new album, released on the band’s Broadcast Recordings label. Return single 'How Long Is Now' brought uplifting synth carousels and was titled after a Berlin mural and art installation. On 'Pieces Of You' gorgeously deliquescent guitar ripples out over Matt’s distinctive tenor voice. Be There is meditative, delicate, with guest vocals from Rachael Swinton of Glasgow electronic-rock duo Cloth. Aubrey made his own fretless bass. It features on the track 'Seven Years'. Several tracks have input from two musicians who have featured in the PBE live line-up – Tom Sharkett, music producer and guitarist with W.H. Lung, and music producer and musician Lewis Johnson-Kellett.

“The new album comes with a new landscape,” says Matt, summing up. “We were in new surroundings with new city sounds – a bit overwhelming for me, but also exciting. I hope the result is uplifting, driving, a perpetual forward motion." There are new sounds but also a steadfast Krautrock influence, alongside some of the band’s other favourite moods and flavours. The album reflects the end of an era and embracing new beginnings in a new place.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Beautifully rich shoegaze soundscapes with shimmering chorused guitars and dreamy, lysergic vocals swimming over the top. There are echoes of classic 90's 'gaze here, but it's accomplished with an injection of modern sounding pop song structures and a keen production ear. Wonderfully hazy, but without being muddied, Pale Blue Eyes take the best elements of shoegaze, synth and pop and bring them together perfectly.

TRACK LISTING

1. How Long Is Now
2. Scrolling
3. Pieces Of You
4. On The Surface
5. The Dreamer
6. Travel Day
7. Rituals
8. Our Lost Words
9. Now And Again
10. Be There
11. Half Light
12. Seven Years 

‘Broadcasting From Home’ is the third studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, released in 1984.

The opening song was named after Penguin Cafe Orchestra leader Simon Jeffes found a discarded harmonium in an alleyway in Japan.

This is the first repress since 1987 and uses the 2008 remaster.

TRACK LISTING

Music For A Found Harmonium
Prelude And Yodel
More Milk
Sheep Dip
White Mischief
In The Back Of A Taxi
Music By Numbers
Another One From The Colonies
Air
Heartwind
Isle Of View (Music For Helicopter Pilots)
Now Nothing

The Last Flight is our version of the story of Amelia Earhart's final, ill-fated journey in 1937. Having successfully navigated over 20,000 miles and 5 continents on her round-the-world trip, her aircraft, the Electra, vanished without trace near Howland Island. Her whereabouts, and those of her navigator, Fred Noonan, remain a lingering mystery to this day.

Rather than focus exclusively on the flight itself, the record is as much an examination of Earhart's remarkable character. She was an extremely rare blend of grace, composure, technical aptitude and a fortitude that the rest of us mere mortals can barely dream of, all enveloped by the soul of a poet. She was possessed of a seemingly unquenchable thirst for life - in her words, 'to find beauty in living... to know the answer to why I’m alive... and feel its excitement every moment'. That thirst for the abundance of life, the sheer joy and privilege of living, long outlasts her disappearance and death. It should serve as an inspiration, almost an instruction, to the rest of us; this record is our attempt to translate that inspiration into music.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Though I'm sure nobody planned it, PSB's 'The Last Flight' is the second album in the past couple months to have come out dedicated to famed aerial badass, Amelia Earhart. Good job then that while Laurie Anderson's outing is indeed a beauty, it's a completely different beast to the unfathomably epic instrumental drive and euphoric, filmic bliss of 'The Last Flight'. If you know PSB already, you know how good they are when they're in full flow, and this is it.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Was Always Dreaming
2. Towards The Dawn
3. The Fun Of It
4. The South Atlantic
5. Electra
6. Arabian Flight
7. Monsoons
8. A Different Kind Of Love
9. Howland

Distant Call is a collection of early demos of songs by Trish Keenan and James Cargill that would subsequently appear as finished productions on the albums Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon.

The album also includes two songs discovered by James after Trish’s passing: “Come Back To Me” and “Please Call To Book”. These were her response to Broadcast’s 2006 ‘Let’s Write A Song’ project, where fans were asked to submit lyrics on a postcard which would then be worked into a finished song.

Distant Call is a closing of the door on Broadcast and will be the last release from the band.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tears In The Typing Pool [Demo]
2. Still Feels Like Tears [Demo]
3. Come Back To Me [Demo]
4. The Little Bell [Demo]
5. Distant Call [Demo]
6. Valerie [Demo]
7. Colour Me In [Demo]
8. Ominous Cloud [Demo]
9. Flame Left From The Sun [Demo]
10. Where Youth And Laughter Go [Demo]
11. Poem Of A Dead Song [Demo]
12. O How I Miss You [Demo]
13. Pendulum [Demo]
14. Please Call To Book [Demo]

Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006-2009 comprises songs and sketches drawn from Trish's extensive archive of 4-track tapes and MiniDiscs. The recordings lay the groundwork for what would have been Broadcast’s fifth album, offering a window into Trish and James’ creative process during the post-Tender Buttons period from 2006-2009.

Photography used in its artwork is by Trish and James and the artwork is designed by Broadcast's long-time collaborator Julian House.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few bands who could put out such an extensive collection of demos and sketches and have it be not only a great insight into their creative processes (it is definitely that), but a sonically imperfect but thematically impeccable collection. There's a reason Broadcast are so respected, and this is it.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Song Before The Song Comes Out
2. March Of The Fleas
3. Greater Than Joy
4. Mother Plays Games
5. My Marble Eye
6. Roses Red
7. Hip Bone To Hip Bone
8. Running Back To Me
9. I Blink You Blink
10. Infant Girl
11. I Run In Dreams
12. Luminous Image
13. A Little Light
14. Hairpin Memories
15. My Body
16. Follow The Light
17. Tunnel View
18. Where Are You?
19. Singing Game
20. I Want To Be Fine
21. The Games You Play
22. Grey Grey Skies
23. Puzzle
24. The Clock Is On Fire
25. Petal Alphabet
26. Tell Table
27. Fatherly Veil
28. Dream Power
29. Heartbeat
30. Call Sign
31. Crone Motion
32. Sleeping Bed
33. Join In Together
34. Colour In The Numbers
35. I Am The Bridge
36. Spirit House 

The Flaming Lips 2002 album “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” was a huge album in the UK, selling over 300,000 units on its way to Platinum certification. The success was driven by 4 hit singles, including the title track and the Lip’s most popular song “Do You Realize”. The band frequently toured the UK during the album cycle, playing larger venues than previous tours, and were frequent guests on several radio shows.

This release is a recording of the last show of the UK dates in January 2003 at London’s Forum Theatre. The 15-song show was broadcast nationally by the BBC. In addition to playing key songs from “Yoshimi” album, the set list includes fan-favourites such as “She Don’t Use Jelly”, “Waitin’ For A Superman” and “Race For The Prize”.

TRACK LISTING

1. Introduction
2. Race For The Prize
3. Fight Test
4. Lucifer Sam
5. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
6. Lightning Strikes The Postman
7. In The Morning Of The Magicians
8. Happy Birthdays
9. She Don't Use Jelly
10. All We Have Is Now
11. Do You Realize??
12. Waitin' For A Superman
13. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
14. What Is The Light?
15. The Observer

A celebration of the power of radio written in recognition of the centenary of the BBC, This New Noise saw the band joining forces with the 88 piece BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley. A standout performance from 2022’s BBC Proms, it received 5*s in The Telegraph who called it “a resonant, timely and ultimately touching show”. Founder member J. Willgoose, Esq. remixed the concert from scratch, bringing out even more depth and texture from a multi-layered performance and showing it in a new light.

This New Noise is the second time Public Service Broadcasting have been commissioned for the BBC Proms. In 2019 the band performed an orchestral arrangement of their 2015 studio album The Race for Space with The Multi-Story Orchestra to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon.

Public Service Broadcasting have been “teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for more than a decade now. 2013’s debut album Inform - Educate - Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowers’ rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the Moon. An indie DIY phenomenon the album has remarkably since achieved gold disc status having sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone. In 2017, joined by voices including Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Every Valley was a moving exploration of community and memory via the rise and fall of the British coal industry.

Their most ambitious undertaking yet, Bright Magic brought the listener to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Hauptstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin. Released in late 2021, and debuting at No 2 in the UK album chart, the band’s fourth album was described by Electronic Sound as “their most ambitious, leftfield and majestic work to date, their glorious creative peak, their magnum opus”, DIY said “it flourished at its most calm and erupted at its most fervent” and Clash said it “cemented PSB's reputation as a vital act right at the top of their game”. The album also featured multiple BBC Radio 6 Music A-Listed singles, including “People, Let’s Dance” [ft. EERA] and “Blue Heaven” [ft. Andreya Casablanca].

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A perfect document of one of the most stunning live shows from PSB, with the power of the BBC symphony orchestra backing up their already epic compositions. It's a perfect match, and it's beautifully captured here for your listening pleasure.

TRACK LISTING

01 Ripples In The Ether (Towards The Infinite)
02 This New Noise
03 An Unusual Man
04 A Cello Sings In Daventry [ft. Seth Lakeman]
05 Broadcasting House
06 The Microphone (The Fleet Is Lit Up)
07 A Candle Which Will Not Be Put Out
08 What Of The Future? (In Touch With The Infinite)

3LP
‘BBC Broadcasts’ is an extensive collection of broadcast material from one of the biggest selling recording artists of all time. Curated by Genesis founding member Tony Banks and the group’s long-time engineer and producer Nick Davis this 3LP set includes 24tracks, all of which are making their first appearance on the format. The vinyl set also includes fully illustrated inner bags containing extensive sleeve notes by respected music writer Michael Hann.

5CD
‘BBC Broadcasts’ is an extensive collection of broadcast material from one of the biggest selling recording artists of all time. Curated by Genesis founding member Tony Banks and the group’s long-time engineer and producer Nick Davis this 53-track, 5-CD set includes a treasure trove of rare and previously unreleased material and comes with a fully illustrated 40-page booklet containing extensive sleeve notes by respected music writer Michael Hann.

As well as a wonderful collection of the sessions Cargill and Keenan played at Maida Vale from 1996 to 2003, there are two seperate outings only previously available from Broadcast on tour. The brilliant Microtonics sees the duo lurch from avant off-kilter electronic pop to drastic skittering bunker techno, via flickering folktronca. There are pieces here that are clear influences on bands that have come since, and is yet another piece of the puzzle in the notoriously prolific output of one of the greatest electronic outfits around. A constantly confounding and suprprisingly cohesive selection, considering the gap between the two halves of the cut. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A beautiful reissue here, perfectly collecting together two EP's only available from Broadcast's 2003 and 2005 tours. Wonderfully off-piste and quintessentially Broadcast. Sounding and looking wonderful too, what more could you want?

TRACK LISTING

01 Microtronics 01
02 Microtronics 02
03 Microtronics 03
04 Microtronics 04
05 Microtronics 05
06 Microtronics 06
07 Microtronics 07
08 Microtronics 08
09 Microtronics 09
10 Microtronics 10
11 Microtronics 11
12 Microtronics 12
13 Microtronics 13
14 Microtronics 14
15 Microtronics 15
16 Microtronics 16
17 Microtronics 17
18 Microtronics 18
19 Microtronics 19
20 Microtronics 20
21 Microtronics 21

Another wonderful tour-only oddity from Broadcast, issued finally on LP and CD. This one is from 2009 and sees the duo at their most experimental, resulting in some of their msot arresting moments, fractured wisps of melody wrought out of clattering breakbeats and woozy psychedelic swirls both distorted and monolithic. There is little argument from anyone that they were a talented pair, and though this takes a little getting used to, it's even more evidence that their innovative way of doing things resulted in the most sublime of results. Shadowy and percussive, deeply psychedelic and wonderfully weird. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I love broadcast, and I love the way they write music. It's never what you expect but it's ALWAYS worth listening to. This one from their 2009 tour is no different, and as a listening experience is both cathartic and richly rewarding. A weird and wonderful journey.

TRACK LISTING

01 Creation Day The Travel Flute Way
02 In Here The World Begins
03 Elegant Elephant
04 Through The Gates Of Yesterday
05 Milling Around The Village
06 The Aphid Sleeps
07 Growing Backwards
08 I'm Just A Person In This Roomy Verse
09 Never Trust A Rusty Bolt
10 Innocence In Orbit
11 Mother's Milk Means Music [At Home In The Universe]

Broadcast shaped the modern electronica scene with their clever and effective juxtaposition of library and psychedleic sounds of the 60's with a modern edge, culminating in one of the most distinctive and emulated sounds of my musical experience. Keenan and Cargill have written some of the most effecting pieces of music of the last couple decades and this brand new collection sees a full-scale issue of the various shows they've played at Maida Vale over the years. This much needed rarity comes on both double vinyl and CD and is a perfect track of their development, and a wonderful document of their skills as live performers. 

 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: An essential document of the famously wonderful Broadcast live experience, with a selection of their best tracks committed to tape. One part of a trio of exciting Broadcast rarities, and long overdue!

TRACK LISTING

John Peel - 6th October 1996
1. The Note [Message From Home]
2. Untitled [City In Progress]
3. Forget Every Time
4. World Backwards

Evening Session - 1st March 1997
1. Come On Let’s Go
2. Look Outside
3. The Book Lovers
4. Lights Out

John Peel - 9th February 2000
1. Long Was The Year
2. Echo’s Answer
3. Where Youth And Laughter Go

John Peel - 19th August 2003
1. Pendulum
2. Colour Me In
3. Minim
4. Sixty Forty

An album in three parts (Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic), it is their most ambitious undertaking yet, bringing you to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Hautpstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin.

“Doing this felt inevitable, somehow,” muses J.Willgoose, Esq. “In my head, it was whirring and pulsing away for a long time, even before Every Valley - this fascinating, contrary, seductive place. I knew the album was going to be about the city, and its history and myths, and I was going to move there. So it’s quite a personal story. It’s become an album about moving to Berlin to write an album about people who move to Berlin to write an album…”

Though PSB’s use of electronics and surging guitar rock remain familiar, Bright Magic uses samples, and the English language, sparingly. It differs from their previous albums in other ways: less linear and narrative, instead it’s an impressionistic portrait of a city from the ground up. A Eureka moment of sorts came in November 2018 when Willgoose heard Walter Ruttmann’s radical Berlin tape-artwork Wochenende (or Weekend), which is sampled on three of Bright Magic’s tracks. Created in 1928, the piece collaged speech, field recordings and music into a sonic evocation of the city. Resolving to integrate these long-gone fragments with new manipulated sound sources, he set about making his own Wochenende, a narrative drama for the ears which decodes and realises the dreams of Berlin he’d constructed in his mind.

J.Willgoose, Esq. said “I started to get a feeling for where the title of Bright Magic wanted to take me, towards ideas of illumination and inspiration, electricity and flashes of light and colour and sound (all the tracks would eventually be colour coded). I sent it to the rest of the band, and said, I know it’s going to change, but we’ll see how the city itself colours that.” J.Willgoose, Esq moved to Berlin from April 2019 to January 2020. Combining sound archaeology and the flâneuring of the psychogeographer, one street-level pursuit of the city’s energy involved Willgoose walking the Leipzigerstrasse, site of the city’s first electric streetlight, using a wide-band electromagnetic receiver from Moscow’s Soma Laboratories. “I walked up and down recording electrical currents and interference,” he laughs. “You can hear a few of these little frequency buzzes, clicks and impulses in Im Licht (a song inspired in part by pioneering lightbulb manufacturers AEG and Siemens). It’s what I was trying to do in the wider sense, I suppose – to capture those tiny little pulses you pick up while walking through a city.”

He wrote and recorded in Kreuzberg’s famous Hansa Tonstudio recording complex. This brought closer several inescapable musical touchstones: Depeche Mode’s classic eighties triumvirate, U2’s Achtung Baby and, crucially, Bowie’s “Heroes” and Low. “The whole shape and structure of the record is very much in debt to Low,” says Willgoose. Indeed, the Warszawa-evoking “The Visitor” – whose designated colour is the particular Orange of that album’s sleeve – was initially intended to feature a sample of Bowie reflecting, says Willgoose, on “how he viewed himself as this vessel for synthesizing and refracting other influences, and presenting avant-garde influences to the mainstream. We tried to absorb a bit of that spirit.”

As well as EERA, the album’s other guest voices include Blixa Bargeld, veteran of The Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten, who becomes the voice of Berlin’s industry on the robo-teknik “Der Rhythmus der Maschinen”. Andreya Casablanca of Berlin garageistes Gurr stands in for Marlene Dietrich in “My Blue Heaven”, an anthem of proud self-determination.

A very pro-European record, Bright Magic is ultimately not just about one city, but all centres of human interaction and community which allow the free exchange and cross-pollination of ideas.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: PSB are back! It's been a long wait since their last full-length in 2017, but 'Bright Magic' has every one of the standard PSB tricks we love them for plus a few more. Filmic electronic groove, kosmische library-tinged synthplay and instantly addictive melodies. No doubt this will excite the earholes of new listeners and existing fans of the band alike, and shows a new progression of this already formidable musical force.

TRACK LISTING

‘Bright Magic’
Der Sumpf (Sinfonie Der Großstadt)
Im Licht
Der Rhythmus Der Maschinen (ft. Blixa Bargeld)
People, Let’s Dance (ft. EERA)
Blue Heaven (ft. Andreya Casablanca)
Gib Mir Das Licht (ft. EERA)
The Visitor
Lichtspiel I: Opus
Lichtspiel II: Schwarz Weiss Grau
Lichtspiel III: Symphonie Diagonale
Ich Und Die Stadt (ft. Nina Hoss)

‘Bright Magic (Demos)’
(Bonus CD With PIASR1230LPBK Only)
Der Sumpf (Sinfonie Der Großstadt) (Demo)
Im Licht (Demo)
Der Rhythmus Der Maschinen (Demo)
People, Let's Dance (Demo)
Blue Heaven (Demo)
Gib Mir Das Licht (Demo)
The Visitor (Demo)
Lichtspiel I: Opus (Demo)
Lichtspiel II: Schwarz Weiss
Grau (Demo)
Lichtspiel III: Symphonie Diagonale (Demo)

These 13 is a little bit folk, a little bit gospel, a little bit bluesy, a little bit Hank, a little bit hill country, but most emphatically, it is all heart. Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus have climbed the height of their creative ladders in this collection of soul-strung songs, both lyrically and musically, a synchronicity between the two that feels joined in some special imaginative place that can only be visited by the best of songwriters. All songs written and performed by Andrew Bird + Jimbo Mathus  and produced by Mike Viola. Themes: Connection, Humanity, Geography and Collaboration.

TRACK LISTING

1. Poor Lost Souls
2. Sweet Oblivion
3. Encircle My Love
4. Beat Still My Heart
5. Red Velvet Rope
6. High John
7. Stonewall (1863)
8. Bright Sunny South
9. Bell Witch
10. Dig Up The Hatchet
11. Jack O' Diamonds
12. Burn The Honky Tonk
13. Three White Horses And A Golden Chain

These four tracks were first performed in 2018, at the BBC's Biggest Weekend event, which saw the band debut the new material on the slipways on which the Titanic was built, broadcast live on BBC 6Music. The EP tells the story of the construction of the ship and its early, tragic, demise. The band focus on the perspectives of those who built and sailed her, whilst showing their own talent for using a mixture of music and archive audio footage to provide a new perspective on well-known events.

J. Willgoose, Esq. of Public Service Broadcasting says: “I thought it was an interesting challenge to tell the story of the ship's construction as part of Belfast's proud industrial history, the spirit of optimism of the pre-war age that she represented, and then an abstract and, I hope, respectful depiction of both the sinking of the ship (represented by the repeated Morse code distress call, C - Q - D) and the discovery of the wreck in 1985.”

The opening two tracks, ‘The Unsinkable Ship’ and ‘White Star Liner’, carry the EP forward with a motorik energy, carefully tracing the construction and launch of the ship. As the EP reaches its close, the music shifts into a more volatile state on the powerful ‘C - Q - D’ - the Morse code call sign for “All stations: distress” - before closing on the reflective ambience of ‘The Deep’, an adaptation of Archibald Joyce's ‘Songe d'automne’, the piece of music which noted Titanic historian Walter Lord concluded was probably the last to be played as the ship sank. Coupled with the impassioned voice of survivor Eva Hart, it’s a moving end to the EP, one that is a fitting tribute to those who built the ship and those who perished upon its demise. 

TRACK LISTING

1. The Unsinkable Ship
2. White Star Liner
3. C-Q-D
4. The Deep

Third album from Public Service Broadcasting, the brainchild of London-based J. Willgoose, Esq. who, along with his drumming companion, Wrigglesworth, and their bass player, keys and horns man extraordinaire, JFAbraham, is on a quest to inform, educate and entertain audiences around the globe.

Released 7th July, on Every Valley Willgoose takes us on a journey down the mineshafts of South Wales valleys. Yet the record is a metaphor for a much larger, global and social malaise, using the history of coal mining to shine a light on the disenfranchised.

The album features guest vocals from James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers), Derbyshire trio Haiku Salut, the award winning Welsh singer Lisa Jên Brown, and Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell on lead single ‘Progress’.

Recorded at the Ebbw Vale Institute, South Wales.

TRACK LISTING

1. Every Valley
2. The Pit
3. People Will Always Need Coal
4. Progress [ft. Tracyanne Campbell]
5. Go To The Road
6. All Out
7. Turn No More [ft. James Dean Bradfield]
8. They Gave Me A Lamp [ft. Haiku Salut]
9. You + Me [ft. Lisa Jên Brown]
10. Mother Of The Village
11. Take Me Home

Vinyl re-press of debut album from Broadcast, originally released on Warp in 2000.

"After being mired in the studio for nearly three years, Broadcast returned with their first proper full-length album, The Noise Made by People, a collection of more shimmering, weightless pop that is nostalgic for yesterday's visions of the future but remains on the cutting edge of contemporary music. Where their early singles (collected on 1997's Work and Non-Work) painted small, quaint portraits of their retro-futurism, The Noise Made by People delivers their sound in widescreen, filmic grandeur. Richly layered yet airy pieces like the album bookends, "Long Was the Year" and "Dead the Long Year," seamlessly blend symphonic, electronic, and pop elements into smoky, evocative epics, while synth-based interludes such as "Minus One" and "The Tower of Our Tuning" present Broadcast's more detached, scientific side. Likewise, Trish Keenan's air-conditioned vocals sometime suggest a robotized Sandie Shaw or Cilla Black, but her humanity peeks out on "Come on Let's Go" and "Papercuts." "Echo's Answer" and "Until Then" are two of the other highlights from the album, which despite all of its chilly unearthliness, is a noise made by (very talented) people." - All Music.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Long Was The Year
A2 Unchanging Window
A3 Minus One
A4 Come On Let's Go
A5 Echo's Answer
A6 Tower Of Our Tuning
B1 Papercuts
B2 You Can Fall
B3 Look Outside
B4 Until Then
B5 City In Progress
B6 Dead The Long Year

Vinyl re-press of 2009 collaboration between Broadcast and their longtime sleeve designer Julian House (also co-founder of the Ghost Box label) to create a unique mini-album pulling in both collaborators' unique sense of melody and love of library music and film scores.

From their beginnings in Birmingham 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, Tim Gane from Stereolab, Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and DangerMouse. 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 Broadcast's 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.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Intro / Magnetic Tales
A2 The Be Colony
A3 How Do You Get Along Sir?
A4 Will You Read Me.
A5 Reception / Group Therapy
A6 A Quiet Moment
A7 I See, So I See So
A8 You Must Wake
A9 One Million Years Ago
A10 A Seancing Song
A11 Mr Beard, You Chatterbox
A12 Drug Party
A13 Libra, The Mirror's Minor Self
A14 Love's Long Listen-In
B1 We Are After All Here
B2 A Medium's High
B3 Ritual / Looking In
B4 Make My Sleep His Song
B5 Royal Chant
B6 What I Saw
B7 Let It Begin / Oh Joy
B8 Round And Round And Round
B9 The Be Colony / Dashing Home / What On Earth Took You?

Indietronica, post-rock, avant? Whatever, this is clever and moving stuff from this arty Birmingham 3 piece. There's krautrock, psychedelia, clanging minimalism but it wouldn't matter a jot if it wasn't for singer Trish Keenan's beautiful voice. Weirdly empty yet endearingly childlike, too, she floats over and amongst the occasionally languid, often chaotic music. It's like a dream: a late 60's and Tomorrow's World 70's vision of an electronic future that never seems to arrive. Out of time, out of place. What could be better?

Vinyl re-press of the second album by Broadcast, originally released in 2003.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Colour Me In
A2 Pendulum
A3 Before We Begin
A4 Valerie
A5 Man Is Not A Bird
A6 The Little Bell
A7 Distorsion
B1 Minim
B2 Lunch Hour Pops
B3 Black Umbrellas
B4 Ominous Cloud
B5 Oh How I Miss You
B6 Winter Now
B7 Hawk

Vinyl re-press of the third album by Broadcast, originally released in 2005.

Blending their trademark influences of 60s pop, film soundtracks and psychedelia and avant noises, "Tender Buttons" stands out from their previous work in terms of its stripped back simplicity and emotional boldness.

TRACK LISTING

A1 I Found The F
A2 Black Cat
A3 Tender Buttons
A4 America's Boy
A5 Tears In The Typing Pool
A6 Bit 35
A7 Subject To The Ladder
B1 Corporeal
B2 Arc Of A Journey
B3 Michael A Grammar
B4 Minus 3
B5 Goodbye Girls
B6 You And Me In Time
B7 I Found The End

Vinyl re-press of 2006 double LP collection of 18 tracks taken from rare and limited edition singles, EPs and compilations spanning Broadcast's 10 year career. Since their debut 7" release in 1996, Broadcast have released four full length albums plus numerous EPs and singles. This fantastic album showcases some of Broadcast's most beautiful songs, combining vocal and instrumental blends of 60s pop, psychedelia and electronica with the playful world of European library music and radiophonic arrangements.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Illumination
A2 Still Feels Like Tears
A3 Small Song IV
A4 Where Youth And Laughter Go
A5 One Hour Empire
A6 Distant Call
B1 Poem Of Dead Song
B2 Hammer Without A Master
B3 Locusts
B4 Chord Simple
C1 Daves Dream
C2 DDL
C3 Test Area
C4 Unchanging Window / Chord Simple
D1 A Man For Atlantis
D2 Minus Two
D3 Violent Playground
D4 Belly Dance

Vinyl re-press of the 1997 album from Broadcast.

This was their first album on Warp, a handy compilation of three singles released on various different lables; 'Accidentals' on Wurlitzer Jukebox, and 'Living Room' and 'The Book Lovers' EP on the Duophonic label.

These early tracks showcased the early rumblings of their evocative blend of 60s pop, film soundtracks, psychedelia and avant noises.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Accidentals
A2 The Book Lovers
A3 Message From Home
A4 Phantom
A5 We've Got Time
B1 Living Room
B2 According To No Plan
B3 The World Backwards
B4 Lights Out

Re-release of debut mini-album.

Granted unique access to propaganda films from WWII-era Britain by the BFI and setting them to new music, Public Service Broadcasting unveil ‘The War Room’. Expect breathtaking visuals, brooding synths and pounding drums as J. Willgoose, Esq and his drumming companion Wrigglesworth teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future. The first single from the mini album, Spitfire, received rave reviews and became a permanent fixture on BBC 6Music over May & June. It won the public vote for the Rebel Playlist before spending 5 weeks on the main daytime playlist, as well as being awarded Artrocker's Single of the Month. The second single ‘London Can Take It’ is unveiled this August. The title, visuals & samples for the Blitz-based banjo belter come from a film of the same name, filed by American correspondent Quentin Reynolds. The film was shown to audiences in the USA in order to shore up support for Britain and its allies. As the eye of the world is trained on London for the 2012 Olympic Games, this track reminds us of a time when the public had to endure more trying times than Olympic traffic lanes and a disrupted commute. The War Room is dedicated to J. Willgoose, Esq.'s great-uncle, George Willgoose, who died at the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940 aged 26.

The War Room mini album was initially released on 28th May 2012 on Test Card Recordings as a limited edition run of 500 vinyl which sold out within 2 weeks via the band’s website.

TRACK LISTING

1. If War Should Come
2. London Can Take It
3. Spitfire
4. Dig For Victory
5. Waltz For George

“They blend the voices of the past with the music of the present to astounding effect” Independent
“Genuinely original, innovating and amazing” Artrocker Best Electro Act 2013

Public Service Broadcasting release their debut album which will be accompanied by an extensive 46-date UK tour in February, March and May.

Taking in archive material from the BFI and StudioCanal along with classic American public information films (such as the brutal driving-safety messages found on single ‘Signal 30’), the album sees the corduroy-clad J. Willgoose, Esq. and his faithful drumming companion, Wrigglesworth, seeking to fulfil their mission statement over a wide range of subject matter and styles.

Through both the record and their uniquely spell-binding live audio-visual ‘Transmissions’, audiences will witness the band weave samples from these films around live drums, guitar, banjo and electronics, creating an array of diverse tracks. What emerges is, by turns, thrilling, moving, funny and powerful; or, if you will, informative, educational and - most of all - entertaining.

The Independent’s Simon Price said of the band : “In their love of history, and their understanding of the dignity of the wartime generation, they remind me of British Sea Power, although Stereolab are closer sonically. PSB are progressive without the florid ornamentation of Prog, dense and complex with not a semiquaver wasted. It's an industrious, diligent sound, and, in the flesh, surprisingly danceable: slamming chemical beats accompanied by old cine footage, providing a peculiar opportunity to party to Pathe news”

TRACK LISTING

Inform – Educate – Entertain
Spitfire
Theme From PSB
Signal 30
Night Mail
Qomolangma
ROYGBIV
The Now Generation
Lit Up
Everest
Late Night Final

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 Broadcast's return is greeted with much anticipation. From their beginnings in Birmingham 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, Tim Gane from Stereolab, Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and DangerMouse. 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 Broadcast's 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.