Released as a tour only CD limited to 750 copies supporting their collabora… Read Full Bio ↴Released as a tour only CD limited to 750 copies supporting their collaborative album with the Focus Group in 2009, Mother Is The Milky Way takes on a retrospective weight as Broadcast’s true final release before Trish Keenan’s passing in 2011. The release contains some of Broadcast’s warmest, most personal recordings as a group.
Trish Keenan was known for her dreamily distant delivery on Broadcast’s records, but before connecting with James Cargill, Keenan was a part of another duo in Birmingham: the more folk-leaning Hayward Winters. While virtually nothing from that project made it onto the internet aside from a few mentions in interviews, it provides some explanation for how naturally Broadcast slipped into sample-heavy psych folk for Mother. The EP properly opens on ‘In Here The World Begins’, unfurling woozily but proving to be the closest Keenan and Cargill come to a standard issue Broadcast song here. Highlight ‘Elegant Elephant’ is more telling of the project’s aim, crafting a pastoral folk song in what sounds like the belly of a beast, soothed only by the reverberations of Keenan’s voice inside.
Sketches of songs quickly give way to tripped out field recordings, woodwind interludes, and excited chatter underpinning Keenan’s singing, giving Mother a certain wide-eyed, psychedelic Alice in Wonderland-esque whimsy. Considering Keenan was a known lover of the children’s book, it’s hard not see Mother as a bittersweet, unintentional tribute to Keenan’s life, but far more enjoyable to just enjoy the ride down one last rabbit hole from Broadcast.
2022 reissue remastered from the original tapes at Calyx in Berlin
Trish Keenan was known for her dreamily distant delivery on Broadcast’s records, but before connecting with James Cargill, Keenan was a part of another duo in Birmingham: the more folk-leaning Hayward Winters. While virtually nothing from that project made it onto the internet aside from a few mentions in interviews, it provides some explanation for how naturally Broadcast slipped into sample-heavy psych folk for Mother. The EP properly opens on ‘In Here The World Begins’, unfurling woozily but proving to be the closest Keenan and Cargill come to a standard issue Broadcast song here. Highlight ‘Elegant Elephant’ is more telling of the project’s aim, crafting a pastoral folk song in what sounds like the belly of a beast, soothed only by the reverberations of Keenan’s voice inside.
Sketches of songs quickly give way to tripped out field recordings, woodwind interludes, and excited chatter underpinning Keenan’s singing, giving Mother a certain wide-eyed, psychedelic Alice in Wonderland-esque whimsy. Considering Keenan was a known lover of the children’s book, it’s hard not see Mother as a bittersweet, unintentional tribute to Keenan’s life, but far more enjoyable to just enjoy the ride down one last rabbit hole from Broadcast.
2022 reissue remastered from the original tapes at Calyx in Berlin
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Broadcast Lyrics
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1. Long Was The Year Long was the year Will you stay now you're here? Be like…
8. You Can Fall To those who hate Have cried for no one You can call,…
Accidentals Under the strain Something's got to break I don't think this…
According to No Plan Oh, and I found myself lost Looked but nowhere to belong Fir…
America Quaker toil & Texan oil Rockets on we're arm in…
Arc of a Journey Clouds float away like iron tools on the moon All my…
Before We Begin Here again at the end Before the beginning So the salt will…
Black Cat Sapphire her burning eyes Model euphonic paradigms Awkwardne…
City in Progress We're glad that you came We need someone to look up…
Colour Me In I am grey, still on the page Oh colour me in Just…
Come on Let You won't find it by yourself You're gonna need some help An…
Come On Let’s Go You won't find it by yourself You're gonna need some help …
Corporeal Under the white chalk Drawn on the black board Drawn on the…
Dead the Long Year Long was the year Will you stay now, you're here Be like…
Distant Call Don't let the shadows fall And govern you no more Your tho…
Distorsion Gosh! Guess I'm kind of sleepy too! I think I'll climb…
Echo The wind has gone The invisible come Your memories are being…
Elegant Elephant Sentimental ornament Enamel animal I keep the wild and free …
Goodbye Girls Endless night Laced with time Under unreal light With the go…
Hawk Sow the seeds Of everything to be Safe in sleep I winter…
Heart Loves A Heart You break my heart I love you just the same I leave…
I Found the F I found the fragrance separate from the flower In all the…
I Found The F... I found the fragrance separate from the flower In all the…
Illumination Weights, the growing stem of time Waits, poison us outside Y…
Lights Out I'll show you for example A situation that's like one too An…
Living Room You can see in miniature, everything is so small Close to…
Locust Little yellow lemon tree Cast that yellow to the breeze Serp…
Long Was the Year Long was the year Will you stay now you're here? Be like…
Long WasThe Year Long was the year Will you stay now you're here? Be like…
Look Outside Look outside And wherever I go you are there You color in…
Lunch Hour Pops I wait on the stairs for a break in my…
Man Is Not a Bird The sky is faint, their tears remain In me the rain…
Message From Home I hope that you kept the note That I left for…
Michael a Grammar Michael Michael Michael Wake up we're going back to chelmsle…
Michael Agrammar Michael Michael Michael Wake up we're going back to chelmsl…
Minim How sweet the bells How sweet the bells But what can they…
Oh How I Miss You Oh how I miss you [Repeats]…
Ominous Cloud Oh let me sail away On the beach and on the…
Papercuts You can't pretend cause I can see You're not the boy…
Pendulum Captured under hypnosis Faster and faster, images Can a mean…
Pendulum* Captured under hypnosis Faster and faster, images Can a me…
Poem of Dead Song Clear sky will come It's the dark undone Or your wishes Walk…
Small Song IV Sunlight creeps across your pillow Silver leaf falls from th…
Still Feels Like Tears Seasons mean nothing You went away and I'm falling Even clou…
Subject to the Ladder I'm not Pygmalion Hooked by failure Ruled as a juvenile Aged…
Tears in the Typing Pool Succumb to the line The finishing time The long distance…
Tender Buttons The coal The coal light The callous The caress The comb The…
The Aphid Sleeps The aphid sleeps The aphid sleeps Behind the leaf The ant u…
The Be Colony The forehead is where the diamond rotates All circles vanis…
The Book Lovers Lines and lines of the spines, colored everyone Down the ais…
The Little Bell The little bell lies on the ground Although it tries it…
The World Backwards As we know, things aren't growing What's next is close at…
Typing Pool Succumb to the line The finishing time The long distance…
Unchanging Window Attention senses Sorrow's song Foreboding phrases Notes lie …
Unchanging Window / Chord Simple Attention senses Sorrow's song Foreboding phrases Notes l…
Until Then If you think nothing is yours If I think everything belongs…
Valerie Inside the mask another disguise I fall to sleep before clos…
We You and I, got something, why don't we try What fools…
Where Youth and Laughter Go Listen - word one To - word two Let be - be…
Winter Now Snow lies all around There's no sense of doubt You are the…
You and Me in Time You and me in time You and me in time The river…
You Break My Heart You break my heart I love you just the same I leave…
You Can Fall To those who hate Have cried for no one You can call,…
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