Haha Sound by Broadcast

Haha Sound, Broadcast's second album, came out on Warp on 11 August 2003, three years after The Noise Made by People, and it catches the Birmingham band at their most gorgeously unsettling. Trish Keenan's voice floats cool and clear over the top, while James Cargill's bass, Tim Felton's guitar and Keith York's drums tangle with antique electronics and strange samples dug up from who knows where. Think of 1960s psychedelic pop played back on a haunted reel-to-reel.

The critics loved it, and it became their first album to chart in America, making the top 10 of Billboard's dance and electronic albums list. "Pendulum" was the song that carried it onto the countdowns. Tender Buttons came next, by which point Broadcast had shrunk to Keenan and Cargill alone.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.