The Noise Made by People by Broadcast

The Noise Made by People, the debut album from Birmingham's Broadcast, came out on Warp on 20 March 2000, following Work and Non Work. The band had tried sessions run by outside engineers and didn't like what they heard, so they took the controls and recorded and produced it themselves. It shows: this is a record of hermetic, handmade strangeness, Trish Keenan's cool, cut-glass voice floating over James Cargill's bass and a haze of keyboards and synths from Roj Stevens, with Tim Felton on guitar and Steve Perkins on drums.

The recipe is 1960s psychedelic songcraft run through the circuitry of early electronic music, with samples dug out of odd, obscure corners. "Echo's Answer" led the way as a single in November 1999, and "Come On Let's Go" followed in May 2000. Haha Sound would come next.

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