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- Summary: The demos for some of the songs that appeared on Broadcast's three albums (Haha Sound, Tender Buttons and The Future Crayon) and two songs found after Trish Keenan's death are collected together on the 14-track release.
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Dream Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Ambient Pop
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Oct 23, 2024Distant Call: Collected Demos [2000-2006] is a heartfelt farewell from an act whose inspired -- and inspiring -- music will always leave fans wanting more.
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The WireOct 23, 2024The magic of demos is being able to discover well known songs anew. In this form, the yearning and invitation of “Colour Me In” takes on a more literal meaning (“I am grey still on the page… Just an outline, sketchy but fine…Somehow I feel that I’m just the idea”), but is somehow even more poignant, and a reminder of how songs that began so deceptively simply would be taken into so many hearts, coloured in with countless listeners’ emotions and experiences. [Oct 2024, p.69]
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Under The RadarOct 23, 2024If this to be the final chapter of the Broadcast songbook, Distant Call - Collected Demos 2006-209 is a fitting epitaph. [Aug-Oct 2024, p.100]
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Oct 23, 2024The haunting nature of these stripped-down demo versions is reinforced by the spectral presence of the singer, whose persona has inevitably undergone mythologisation akin to other prematurely deceased artists.
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Oct 23, 2024Like many cult favorites, Broadcast were more easily admired than consumed in large doses. Their music always felt mysterious and, with it, a degree of distance and isolation. In that sense, Broadcast were always haunting, and Distant Call, while not essential, leads to that chill-inducing realization.