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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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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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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.